Mastering for Vinyl: What I Learned

I put a video up on YouTube a couple of days ago with some comments about what I learned while trying to figure out how to master the Rusted Rabbit album for vinyl. I could write it all out, but it seemed easier to blabber about it.

The bullet point version is:

• During mixing:
  
  • turn the bass down
    
  • center the bass
    
  • run de-essing filters on the vocals and drums
• During mastering:
  • run a high-pass filter set for 150 Hz, 12 db slope
  • run a filter curve EQ to take down frequencies between 3 and 10 kHz
  • use amplify and soft clip to preserve dynamics but keep peak volume at about -6 db

That's what I did, anyway. I won't know if I made something that sounds good until the records get here.