Abbey Road
MarkT:
Has anyone tried, or heard of this service? http://www.abbeyroadonlinemastering.com/default.aspx
Does anyone have any feedback about it? Is it worth £90 to try?
SteveG:
Quote from: MarkT on January 17, 2011, 10:53:29 AM
Is it worth £90 to try?
Only if you don't mind one of the conditions of service....
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9. GRANT OF LICENCE
You hereby grant Abbey Road and its affiliates a non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid up, perpetual, irrevocable and fully sub-licensable right and license to reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, display and otherwise use the Materials you provide throughout the world in any media for the purpose of promoting the Abbey Road Studios and the Services.
Still want to use them? I suppose you might, considering that the chances of this actually happening aren't exactly great...
There are plenty of these mastering services around now, all competing with each other for very little work, I think. Even if I was producing the sort of material they might be able to work with, I don't think I'd bother, myself.
MarkT:
I had my doubts about it anyway, but I hadn't seen that clause! I wondered how they could produce a worthwhile product when I never even talk to the people. There are plenty of people with sufficient skill for my level of production :wink:, so I shall use them instead. Thanks Steve
ronmac:
I suspect there will be enough people who get a tickle out of the vanity tag "Mastered at Abbey Road Studios" to keep them somewhat busy.
There are a lot of aging rock stars out there trading on the strength of a 40 year old reputation, you can't blame some of the studios from doing the same.
Keith828:
Quote from: SteveG on January 17, 2011, 09:51:35 PM
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9. GRANT OF LICENCE
You hereby grant Abbey Road and its affiliates a non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid up, perpetual, irrevocable and fully sub-licensable right and license to reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, display and otherwise use the Materials you provide throughout the world in any media for the purpose of promoting the Abbey Road Studios and the Services.
They don't have the same clause in the recording contract do they Steve? I didn't see anything on the booking form, taking a German band there in March.
Quote from: ronmac on January 18, 2011, 01:35:26 PM
I suspect there will be enough people who get a tickle out of the vanity tag "Mastered at Abbey Road Studios" to keep them somewhat busy.
Must happen of course, but we took the decision to 'record' at Abbey Rd from a purely commercial point of view, in that fans might be a lot less hesitant in buying the album knowing that if the album was recorded at Abbey Rd, it was most likely commercially reproduced too (which it will be), rather than CDR on a home PC (there's a lot of it about), which plays on the DVD player sometimes - but doesn't play in the car or on the HiFi. We didn't plan too but on reading Steve's post mastering there is now not an option.
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