Catherine Heckford-Dickinson's Page

"The Izhaki book is really fantastic too. It's about $33. I refer to it often. It comes with a DVD of audio examples.  "

"Thanks!  I am going to try doing some mastering myself, as I have about 15 pieces I'd like to produce."

"I dont know the first book Doug mentions but that Bob Katz book is considered the kind of holy grail intro to mastering, very worthwhile purchase"

"A good start are books by Roey Izhaki: Mixing Audio, and Bob Katz: Mastering Audio. "

"Thank you so much, I will look that up.  I was just discovering that my track had clipping in it.  It seems the sum of the parts can cause the overall to clip even if the individual tracks are no where near clipping.  Ah... so much to…"

"maybe Izotope Alloy or Izotope Ozone? Probably others here can answer that question better than I. And there are tons of plugin settings to start with. Its no real substitute for the real thing, but if you have no budget for anything then a plugin…"

"Fascinating!  Since I'm working on a low budget indie film, what do you think the best course should be?  Is there a mastering software that is inexpensive and I can learn relatively easily? Thanks in advance, I appreciate it."

"I think it depends on the level of the film. For an indie, and ultra low budget projects for certain you can master your own stuff with plugins, but you should at least master stuff on some level, even on demos, collaborations, etc. It changes the…"

"Thanks for the reply.  Here's a very basic question.  Can music go from Protools or Cubase into film and be at an acceptable level or do you need to master it with Sadie and Crane?  I haven't gotten that far yet, as you can…"

"Yea while they have made monumental motions forward in the MIDI aspect of ProTools, its still not up to snuff for scoring compared to logic or DP IMO. I keep pro tools in the studio, used to keep an MBOX around just so I could have pro tools but now…"

"I also have Protools, but when I tried to do things that I find easy in Cubase I was frustrated.  So, I plan to learn protools soon.  Don't really know if there is any advantage, but for now, this is what I own."

"For PC. I love Sonar. It has great tools, and an excellent interface. Sonar X1b works great."

"I am in quite the same position. I just started taking compositions from Sibelius to Cubase, and using Kontakt 4 for instrumentation. I can't say I have the best results possible but I think it is pretty good. I'll upload a link to a…"

"Hi sorry it's been so long I'm not ignoring you! At the minute I can't post any music for copyright reasons."

"I've been using Logic Pro. I have SONAR as well and tried Pro Tools as well as others. At first I hated Logic because It seemed complicated, but after I settled down with it, I think it's great. Now SONAR I've yet to get settled down…"

"Hi Catherine, can we hear music from you, what kind of music do you want to publish? Greetings from germany, Ansgar"