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[niktu]

Greetings Punks

There's been a bit of dicussion and exercises in our class regarding compression formats. I am starting to realise that as artist/producers, we need to start creating separate mixdowns that are "MP3 friendly" as the norm seeing that MP3 is the format that most people are going to use to listen to your music. Also, a separate MP3 master should be in order as well.

CD is for the real fans, right - after they've sampled your MP3s?

There are countless complaints about poor conversion from the 24Bit pristine masterpiece to MP3, but if we started mixing and/or mastering with limited bandwidth and brick-wall compression for a better MP3 sound, perhaps we'll start hearing better sounding MP3's.

Is it time to take the "MP3 mix" seriously?
Are people already doing this?
Load of bollocks?

[Captain Terrific]

i don't think the idea is silly at all.

mastering with the end product in mind has been happening for years - look at vinyl vs cd mastering...

[lustmyeyes]

Yeah, I can understand why .mp3 mixing is important, especially for less renowned bands, as people can download off iTunes for their iPods and whatnot.
mp3 is alot less quality though and obviously the CD mixdown has alot more merit to it because a) it would have to be bought before uploaded for illegal download and also way better quality.