low, med, heavy mastering and the original, so 4. My biggest complaint, by far, is there’s no volume leveling for their taste testing. I think it’ll wear thin quickly and you’ll be back to doing it yourself. but again, if you want something to have a lot of energy and sound like it’s on the radio, it’s a good, fast, easy way to do that. i find it much easier and cleaner to add my Slate, Ozone or UAD mastering stuff and get better results than Landr. mastering is much more than simple eq and limiting and it seems Landr does just that. Your mix should sound exactly how you want your song to sound – not wait for mastering for your sound. i found you could actually get some pretty decent results depending on how your final mix ends up.īut that wound up being too much work and Landr’s not exactly speedy when you’re taste testing. i did a bunch of taste tests starting with nothing on my 2bus, then i gradually added color to my 2bus and got more aggressive with it, each time sending it through Landr. but, after a while i realized it all depends on what you send to Landr. at first i liked it because it was quick and easy and didn’t seem to crush stuff too much. why not? been working on a friend’s record and decided to try it. I received some offer for Landr for a year for really cheap. You have already decided that level of investment in your art is too high.Īs artists, it hurts when business decisions have to be weighed against creative decisions.
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Before anyone judges anyone else for not being willing to spend money on these services, remember that if you use one of them, you are already making a COGs decision by not sending it to a professional mastering house. Controlling COGs is a critical business function. Taken in isolation, those arguments make sense around this issue, but when you add this cost to master a song to every other cost that comes up…Įach of us has to make a decision on COGs (Cost of Goods Sold) just like with any other product any company puts out. Yes, there’s an entire spend-money-to-make-money, or invest-in-your-music-if-you-believe-in-it argument that can be, and often is, made. Those services cost, and if you’re not making money on your music, costs like that really can start to add up.
The answer to the “why wouldn’t you try it?” question for some is simply money. Learn more about file types in our Audio Formats Guide.Thanks, Graham. A higher kbps means more data, and therefore more audio quality, is preserved in the conversion process to MP3. Our HI-RES MP3 masters stream at 320 kilobits per second. MP3s are lossy audio files, meaning their quality has been degraded from the original audio. If you opt for our 24bit HD WAVs, you’ll keep whatever sample rate you had in your original file.Our 16bit WAV masters come back with a sample rate of 44.1kHz.The difference between 16bit and 24bit is how much of the original audio information is contained in the file.If you’re sharing demos with a label, pitching to a publisher, or sending music to a media outlet like a blog, you need a mastered WAV. A WAV is lossless, so it will preserve all the details and quality of your original file. HD WAVs and WAVs are the highest quality format. LANDR offers mastering in the following audio formats: