Are there Any hip hop loving engineers left?
i talkin about mastering so grimey u feel like Rza was in the studio with u....

Ghost

There are few HH mastering guys that really seem to excel at it... Brian Gardner would be at the top of a fairly short list (IMO).

"Grimey" and "mastering" in the same sentence...?

yeah that was directed at the tru hip hop heads...they kno what im talking about hip hop is wack now i want to take it back to the grime era

As far as I know, the Main Process which gives a Song a certain "Sound" is mixing. If you gonna mix a Song to sound like "HiFi" then it will probably be very difficult for a Mastering Engineer to make it sound grimey, as you described it.

Sure you can drop the Resolution and it will sound grimey then, i dont really know if that is the goal you want to achieve.

im aiming for a old mobb deep "shook ones" sound with a new era twist feel me i dont kno if it can be done thats y i am asking

ghost

You'd be looking for that in tracking and mixing. By the time it gets to the mastering phase, it's a bit too late...

Hiphop sound and mastering has changed a lot in the last 15 or so years.
Although a lot of people like (or prefer) the sound of old-school hiphop (or early 90's hiphop), when you hear those tracks in a club, they often lose out in terms of power to newer tracks, because over the years hiphop production has evolved (or was it intelligent design? ) to use different sounds and to approach production and arrangement in a certain way that will cut through!

For hiphop mastering, you could do a lot worse then Chris Athens at Sterling.

Darius! Welcome to this little neck of the woods.

So my next question if i were to ask one of u guy's to master a album for me could u do it for me in with that in mind...and how much would we be lookin at

i also would like to thank John Scrip,D van H and Gabriel Sebö for taking time out to answer my question...Keep Real hip-hop alive