What are good mastering settings?

[treezy z]

i'm kinda baffeled my the mastering settings, basically just experimenting. wondering what people use.

[LimpyLoo]

i'm kinda baffeled my the mastering settings, basically just experimenting. wondering what people use.

Are you mastering in a DAW or on an SP?


Ideally a good mastering chain would be (in this order)

compression
EQ
Limiter

But the answer is really "it depends"...it depends on what you want it to sound like.

[Unfolding]

@Treezy- I barely use the mastering when I'm using the 606 in a track that involves any other kit. If it's a 606 only track I might use the default (midrange biased) master settings. But on the whole I tend to resample with effects like enhancer, compression, isolator etc to get a sample sounding as good as possible. Balance the samples right & the 606's mastering is more or less useless.

Pretty sure that Roland intended for the 606's mastering functions to be applied when the 606 is used as a soundcard with the P606 program or otherwise, not when the 606 is standalone with other bits of hardware.

Main thing to keep in mind is that the 606's mastering is split as a high range compressor & low range compressor. It's pretty rough when you want to adjust the mids & that means compromising lows or highs. You'll probably get better results with any other mastering set up you can manage.

[LO-]

I find it usefull because when i use headphones, my beats are blasting
out of controll with to much bass, so I use the mastering to take some
bass out ad it evens everything out pretty nice and comfortable, the
606 has a really comfortable sound to begin with, I'm always at half
master volume so im sitting o a noisy threshhold, but everyone else is
doing it, I can still crank up to full blast if need be, but I'm
digging the volume in the middle.

Maybe a good idea would be to use eq and mastering to get more mid
controll, still a good feature to clean up dirty beats.

I never use my 606 as a soud card, can't figure out how on linux.
So i have to use the outputs into my interface.
finally got that working.

[CULP]

I think I find good results using this chain
eq
compression
eq

turn up 85hz thump and 3-5k to shine up the highs if you are referring to the master section of the 606

mastering is specific to the samples you are using so... it changes all the time.