Topic: mastering query
whats the general concensus on mastering around here?
obviously anything getting a proper release should go to someone with the equipment and experience. the more valves, knobs and beards the better i guess.
but for other things like rough demo cd's, dj mixes, mixing friend's bands etc...what do you folks tend to do?
do you even touch the stereo bus? a little bit of mild compression and limiting. any technical multiband compression?
or just leave these things pretty raw, maybe normalise to the peak level and burn the cd off?
i've toyed with a variety of ways, mainly in logic to do some mastering but just wondering what other folk's experience is on these matters