Comments on: RASHAD MASTERER

By: timeblind

timeblind — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:56:45 +0000

just mastered with him last week. 2 dubstep tracks for orson’s new label, version.

again, just removing and pulling back things that get in the way of the concentration. adjusting the sides vs. center a bit. I had a really complicated track (3 or 4 high hats) and previously it had more natural balance because I ran my own compression on it and everything came together nice. but then I removed the compression to let him do it and we found it took a while to recreate this energy. he politely scolded me for essentially doing some mastering during the composition stage. end result really good though.

By: james gyre

james gyre — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:01:39 +0000

monolake's gobi: the desert e.p" is the finest piece of ambient music electronics ever maed, in my opinion. thanks for the article, been wanting to learn more about mastering recently...

By: Rupture

Rupture — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:11:21 +0000

haha, awesome. you guys are lucky! i’d love to do a session w. Rashad at D&M. havent met him yet.

By: Matt Shadetek

Matt Shadetek — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:04:18 +0000

Great post jace! I LOVE Rashad. He’s such a pleasure to work with. He’s mastered and cut a lot of my stuff, including my Pale Fire album. He’s just a brilliant engineer and also a wonderful guy, a real pleasure to sit and talk music with. It’s rare to find someone with such a subtle, incisive ear who also understands extreme brutalist music and knows when to say things like “This should be a little more harsh, yes?”

By: geroyche

geroyche — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:30:40 +0000

Rashad mastered most of my tracks that are out on vinyl.
Especially with the two solo EPs it have been revealing experiences, sitting there at D&M.
Marvellous results.