Mastering with a MASTER by Citrus

From Citrus' myspace blog

We had the album Mastered last friday at Airshow Studios with David Glasser as our MASTER...he is indeed a Master!

Airshow

In NO time at all the whole thing was sounding a TON better than it sounded prior to him sprinkling his dust on it...and we had all thought it sounded pretty damn good.

Just walking into the room with 5 ten thousand dollar speakers...some 60+ Grammy's represented on the walls with TWO actual trophies on a speaker in front of the room, and countless gold and platinum records all over the place...made ME feel humble.
I just kept remembering Shider telling me.." you are never better than your surroundings"....I used it in reverse and realized that I BELONGED up in there.


We had gotten there just a bit late and Billy TEE and David G had already been at it for about an hour...Billy told me that David just never spends that much time on ONE song...he was pumped. Indeed David was having FUN...we were listening at a fairly loud volume as David said he only had our session for the day and that the music was meant to be listened to loud. I had done my homework and expected it to be a fairly quiet time.

They had run Get Up back to a BIG ol piece of Tape...but apparently we did good enough at the studio that it really didn't help us out that much...better to just stay in the digital realm David said...so we did...basically whatever this man said was cool by us! He kept commenting on how quiet we were and all.. We just kept telling him that we were there to observe and learn NOT to tell HIM what to do by any means!

It was really a great time. I had NEVER been to a Mastering session and was in awe of the room itself.. the gear...and of course the Man in the middle of the room turnin all them knobs and boppin his head.

Bill and Tom have worked together on many sessions and I could tell they were very friendly with each other. The energy was funky and fun and just what the album needed for the finishing touches. Bill kept telling me...he NEVER...does this or that or the other thing... with a shit eatin grin on his face I knew that Billy was stoked about this project...hell he MUST be...cuz he has been workin on it with me for a couple of years now with barely a mention of money or any of that stuff.....course I am gonna PAY the man..have been all along...but you know...I am poor..the band is poor...he is poor...but we are all RICH as hell in love and light!


Anyway...the experience was one I will CHERISH forever and I hope that there are more to come down the Pipeline..
Some 5+ hours and $977 dollars later....we walked and listened to the thing for the first time on the way up to play a weekend at the Snake River Saloon in Keystone....
I can't wait to put this thing out!