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West West Side Music Alan Douches, Jamal Ruhe

westwestsidemusic — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:53:12 +0000

West West Side Music Alan Douches, Jamal Ruhe

Mastering Music Cd’s, West Wets Side Music is now booking for November and December Mastering Sessions, Attended and Unattended. Have your Music mastered by the company with award winning Engineers. West West Side music makes it affordable for Indie Music Artists, Singer Song Writers, Indie Labels and Major Record labels to get amazing Mastering Services with an affordable pricing structure. Join over 11,000 projects Mastered By West West Side music. see more including pricing

Mastering Music Cd’s, Post Production for Music and Film, surround mixing

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Music For Film, Commercials, TV, Soundtracks

westwestsidemusic — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:17:32 +0000

West West Side Music for Film, TV, Commercials

west west side music has Mastered over 11,000 Cd’s and has the ability to offer indie music to the Film and Commercial industry at affordable pricing. Most of the bands and Artists we work with are interested in having their music used in the Film Industry Hit us up www.westwestsidemusic.com

Thank you Japan from Alan Douches

westwestsidemusic — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:16:17 +0000

I’d like to thank all of west west side music’s friends in Japan for all their support. It’s amazing how many bands and artists are emailing us from Japan and using our Mastering Services. The amount of great music we are seeing from Japan is incredible.

It’s a great feeling when you can do what you love, the one thing you are totally passionate about and call it your career, so again I’d like to thank all of west west side music’s friends from around the world for making this all possible.

Alan

www.westwestsidemusic.com

Metal Requiem Guatemala and Alan Douches West West Side Music

westwestsidemusic — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:29:45 +0000

Metal Requiem

Hi there Alan!!! you did a great work mastering the record!!! (“Unorthodox”), here in Guatemala we have great press reviews and everything its going really fine, we realesed the record in January 30th and it have been called the best Rock/Metal recording of all times here in our country.
We also put in the credits that you mastered the record for us in wwsm studio in New York, inside the booklet and in our website, and we hope that you can make it “Public” in your page too, if you can put the record in the list of the bands you have worked with like Cannibal Corpse, Nile and many more! it will be great!, also we are the first Guatemalan band you have worked with man! so people here really can confirm the work because some don´t believe it!!! jaaaaaaaaa… they want to see it in your page, maybe we can make a link in our website and other sites we have and people can access to your page and see that we really work with you. I´ll send you here the cover of the album.
Greetings!!!
you can also visit:
www.facebook.compages/metalrequiem/291531353914
www.reverbnation.com/metalrequiem
www.metalrequiem.com
www.myspace.com/metalrequiemspace (in english)
www. metalrequiem/rockrepublik.net

West West Side Music 2 albums make MYSPACE top 50

westwestsidemusic — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:49:14 +0000

2 albums mastered at WWSM made the MYSPACE top 50 of 09! Congrats to CONVERGE & BARONESS! More here:http://www.myspace.com/music/yearinmusic

wwsm: We’re starting work on the new album by CARNIFEX for Victory Records! Go hear them NOW at http://www.myspace.com/carnifexmetal

wwsm: Alan Douches currently mastering the new DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN album at WWS! Visit http://www.myspace.com/dillingerescapeplan for details.wwsm: Alan Douches currently

What is Mastering and Why Should I get my Music mastered

westwestsidemusic — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:39:55 +0000

What is Mastering and what does it actually do?
On a technical side, mastering will prepare a final master format for replication or duplication. A verified error-checked master can be provided that will ensure the highest possible quality will be reproduced. On an artistic side, the mastering engineer can analyze the audio and makes decisions as to the overall tone, level and dynamic range of the music as a whole, and provides a uniform balance for the entire sequence. By using processes like compression, limiting, equalization and other signal processing etc., we can help make your record sound the best it can. With EQ we can clear up frequencies to make your record sound clearer and/or bigger. By using compression we can help “glue” the mix together and give your record a sonic fullness that you may be looking for. This is all performed in an accurate control room with high resolution monitors and amplifiers. Using Digital editing we are able to cut out unwanted parts, making songs flow smoother while cleaning up beginnings and endings of songs and creating a more enjoyable sequence (we are also able to “de-noise” projects with a high noise level, talk to us before hand and we can make certain we’ll have all the right additional audio that may be helpful). There are also special effects we can add to your record. Let us know if you have any ideas initially. We would never add effects without consulting you first (Often these are production ideas that come about after the mix was completed, or that the mix engineer felt he could not adequately provide). Overall, the process should make your CD more listen-able on a wide range of playback systems, and bring it to it’s fullest potential.

Why should I get my music mastered?
One main reason many people desire a mastering process is for perspective… so your mixes and album stand up today, and, years down the line. Having a fresh set of trained ears go through a record has long been an essential part of the recording process. Many people spend a great deal of time agonizing over the details of their album. Mastering brings in the fresh perspective that many people involved in the recording process dont have. We also enjoy getting involved during your recording process, to ensure your mastering can be it’s best. Call us if your having concerns about your recordings. Remember, overall, the process should make your CD more listen-able on a wide range of playback systems. All this must be done with great quality gear in an accurate control room.

Alan Douches To Speak at Launch Music Conference 2010

westwestsidemusic — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:06:26 +0000

Alan Douches West West Side Music mastering, New York Mastering Engineer

Alan Douches
(West West Side Music)
Douches has been in the music mastering business for 17 years, acquiring a reputation as one of the best in the industry. Douches credits including mastering work for a diverse range of musicians, including everyone from FLEETWOOD MAC to RUN DMC to FALL OUT BOY to ALKALINE TRIO to MASTODON and countless other household and near-household names.

For more info http://www.launchmusicconference.com/panels/index.htm

www.westwestsidemusic.com

The Everyday Motive: New EP PRESALE!!

westwestsidemusic — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:27:17 +0000

The Everyday Motive will be releasing their FIRST recording at the start of the New Year!

It will feature SEVEN songs, beautifully recorded, mixed, and mastered by Shane Olivo, J. Christopher Hughes, and Alan Douches at Bobby Peru’s Recording Studio, Post-Historic Recording Studio, and West West Side Studios. The CD will feature the photography and design of Milwaukee’s own Jeremy Mlodik. What I’m getting at is that this album is going to be the best $7 you’ll spend in 2010! The only bad news is that it’s going to be a little while until we get the CDs made. We’re having 1000 copies pressed at Media Omaha by Dustin Treinen, but that will take some time.

BUT THERE IS GREAT NEWS!!!

For all of you who can’t wait, we want to offer you a PRESALE offer!
We’ll send you ALL SEVEN MP3’s this month, AND mail you the official CD ASAP (free S&H), when you preorder online!

CLICK HERE to order now!!!

Thanks for waiting!
~John of The Everyday Motive

Naughty Rob recording!

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Alan Douches re: Freelance Whales – THANK YOU!!!!

westwestsidemusic — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:52:01 +0000

Alan Douches re: Freelance Whales – THANK YOU!!!!

Alan,

Over the summer, you mastered “Weathervanes” by Freelance Whales for me. I wanted to write to let you know that since the album was released things have really picked up for the band. We had a song placed on the season finale of “Bored To Death” on HBO, the band was featured as a band to watch on Stereogum, was an artist of the week on NPR’s “World Cafe,” and had an incredibly successful run at CMJ. The band has just returned from a 6 week North American tour opening for Fanfarlo and are about to sign a deal with Frenchkiss Records and Mom+Pop Records.

Both labels are nuts about the record and are planning on re-releasing it as is, and from a sonic perspective I think you had a huge role to play in that. I’ll be the first to admit that my mixes were not perfect and had some issues, and I think the mastering job you did is a big reason why there hasn’t been much discussion of remixing. I’ve even had some old-timers tell me the loved how analog it sounds – so I’m so glad you chose to have the mixes hit tape. This is my first production to be released nationally so naturally I am thrilled. I knew all along that there was serious potential with this band, and I am just happy that I picked the right guy for the mastering job.

Thanks again,

Jeremy Skalrsky

–
MajorWho Media
Engineer, Producer, and All Things Miscellaneous

jeremy.sklarsky@gmail.com

http://www.westwestsidemusic.com

Mastering Music – The Loudness Wars from Wikipedia What do you think?

westwestsidemusic — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:24:47 +0000

Loudness war

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The trend of increasing loudness as shown by waveform images of “Something” by The Beatles mastered on CD four times since 1983.

The loudness war, also referred to as the loudness race, is a publicized criticism of the recording industry‘s practice of digitally mastering albums with progressively increasing levels of loudness and reduced dynamic range.

The phenomenon developed as the result of the widespread adoption of the compact disc digital music format. The recording process of early CD releases differed from prior analog methods that had no set ratio of minimum to maximum level of perceived loudness. Dynamic range was dictated by the playback limitations of analog equipment, including vinyl record and cassette players. With the advent of CDs, music was encoded to a digital format with a clearly defined 16 bit dynamic range, equal roughly to 96 dB. Since most musical performances have a smaller dynamic range than that afforded by CDs, their recordings rarely approached the maximum possible levels. The loudest parts of a musical performance, the peak levels, serve to contrast with quieter passages which determine the initial volume setting chosen by the listener. With time, members of the music industry sought to promote their recordings by amplifying the average volume of a performance to fit a greater portion of the overall dynamic range of CDs. This method set recordings apart by offering listeners a subjectively “louder” listening experience.

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