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I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?

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Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?

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Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

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Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

Download pdf
Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

Download pdf
Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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03. Creatve EQ

This is the stage where you can be creative with your EQ’ing after the previous, corrective stage. This is where you can add some “colour” and style to your master.

04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

Download pdf
Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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03. Creatve EQ

This is the stage where you can be creative with your EQ’ing after the previous, corrective stage. This is where you can add some “colour” and style to your master.

04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

Download pdf
Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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02. Corrective EQ

As a second plugin in your chain you should have EQ, where you’ll be able to analyse and fix unwanted frequencies and tackle them eg. high pass filter.

03. Creatve EQ

This is the stage where you can be creative with your EQ’ing after the previous, corrective stage. This is where you can add some “colour” and style to your master.

04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

Download pdf
Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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02. Corrective EQ

As a second plugin in your chain you should have EQ, where you’ll be able to analyse and fix unwanted frequencies and tackle them eg. high pass filter.

03. Creatve EQ

This is the stage where you can be creative with your EQ’ing after the previous, corrective stage. This is where you can add some “colour” and style to your master.

04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

Download pdf
Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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01. Spectrum analyser & meter 

To make sure you know what’s the starting gain in both dB and LUFS I recommend having metering plugin as a first in the chain. It also helps if the plugin has spectrum analyser so you can see troubling frequencies before you start mastering. 

02. Corrective EQ

As a second plugin in your chain you should have EQ, where you’ll be able to analyse and fix unwanted frequencies and tackle them eg. high pass filter.

03. Creatve EQ

This is the stage where you can be creative with your EQ’ing after the previous, corrective stage. This is where you can add some “colour” and style to your master.

04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

Download pdf
Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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01. Spectrum analyser & meter 

To make sure you know what’s the starting gain in both dB and LUFS I recommend having metering plugin as a first in the chain. It also helps if the plugin has spectrum analyser so you can see troubling frequencies before you start mastering. 

02. Corrective EQ

As a second plugin in your chain you should have EQ, where you’ll be able to analyse and fix unwanted frequencies and tackle them eg. high pass filter.

03. Creatve EQ

This is the stage where you can be creative with your EQ’ing after the previous, corrective stage. This is where you can add some “colour” and style to your master.

04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

Download pdf
Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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Audio mastering signal chain explenation

01. Spectrum analyser & meter 

To make sure you know what’s the starting gain in both dB and LUFS I recommend having metering plugin as a first in the chain. It also helps if the plugin has spectrum analyser so you can see troubling frequencies before you start mastering. 

02. Corrective EQ

As a second plugin in your chain you should have EQ, where you’ll be able to analyse and fix unwanted frequencies and tackle them eg. high pass filter.

03. Creatve EQ

This is the stage where you can be creative with your EQ’ing after the previous, corrective stage. This is where you can add some “colour” and style to your master.

04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

Download pdf
Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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Audio mastering signal chain explenation

01. Spectrum analyser & meter 

To make sure you know what’s the starting gain in both dB and LUFS I recommend having metering plugin as a first in the chain. It also helps if the plugin has spectrum analyser so you can see troubling frequencies before you start mastering. 

02. Corrective EQ

As a second plugin in your chain you should have EQ, where you’ll be able to analyse and fix unwanted frequencies and tackle them eg. high pass filter.

03. Creatve EQ

This is the stage where you can be creative with your EQ’ing after the previous, corrective stage. This is where you can add some “colour” and style to your master.

04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

Download pdf
Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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Let me talk you through my mastering chain and the reasons why I’m using it in such order. 

Audio mastering signal chain explenation

01. Spectrum analyser & meter 

To make sure you know what’s the starting gain in both dB and LUFS I recommend having metering plugin as a first in the chain. It also helps if the plugin has spectrum analyser so you can see troubling frequencies before you start mastering. 

02. Corrective EQ

As a second plugin in your chain you should have EQ, where you’ll be able to analyse and fix unwanted frequencies and tackle them eg. high pass filter.

03. Creatve EQ

This is the stage where you can be creative with your EQ’ing after the previous, corrective stage. This is where you can add some “colour” and style to your master.

04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

Download pdf
Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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Let me talk you through my mastering chain and the reasons why I’m using it in such order. 

Audio mastering signal chain explenation

01. Spectrum analyser & meter 

To make sure you know what’s the starting gain in both dB and LUFS I recommend having metering plugin as a first in the chain. It also helps if the plugin has spectrum analyser so you can see troubling frequencies before you start mastering. 

02. Corrective EQ

As a second plugin in your chain you should have EQ, where you’ll be able to analyse and fix unwanted frequencies and tackle them eg. high pass filter.

03. Creatve EQ

This is the stage where you can be creative with your EQ’ing after the previous, corrective stage. This is where you can add some “colour” and style to your master.

04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

Download pdf
Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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This is my perfect audio mastering chain list: 

  1. Spectrum analyser & meter
  2. Corrective EQ
  3. Creative EQ
  4. Glue compression
  5. Mid/Side split
  6. Power compression
  7. Clipper
  8. Mid/Side limiter
  9. Limiter
  10. Metering

Let me talk you through my mastering chain and the reasons why I’m using it in such order. 

Audio mastering signal chain explenation

01. Spectrum analyser & meter 

To make sure you know what’s the starting gain in both dB and LUFS I recommend having metering plugin as a first in the chain. It also helps if the plugin has spectrum analyser so you can see troubling frequencies before you start mastering. 

02. Corrective EQ

As a second plugin in your chain you should have EQ, where you’ll be able to analyse and fix unwanted frequencies and tackle them eg. high pass filter.

03. Creatve EQ

This is the stage where you can be creative with your EQ’ing after the previous, corrective stage. This is where you can add some “colour” and style to your master.

04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

Download pdf
Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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This is my perfect audio mastering chain list: 

  1. Spectrum analyser & meter
  2. Corrective EQ
  3. Creative EQ
  4. Glue compression
  5. Mid/Side split
  6. Power compression
  7. Clipper
  8. Mid/Side limiter
  9. Limiter
  10. Metering

Let me talk you through my mastering chain and the reasons why I’m using it in such order. 

Audio mastering signal chain explenation

01. Spectrum analyser & meter 

To make sure you know what’s the starting gain in both dB and LUFS I recommend having metering plugin as a first in the chain. It also helps if the plugin has spectrum analyser so you can see troubling frequencies before you start mastering. 

02. Corrective EQ

As a second plugin in your chain you should have EQ, where you’ll be able to analyse and fix unwanted frequencies and tackle them eg. high pass filter.

03. Creatve EQ

This is the stage where you can be creative with your EQ’ing after the previous, corrective stage. This is where you can add some “colour” and style to your master.

04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

Download pdf
Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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So what is mastering chain? The mastering chain is a set of audio processes used in a specific order during the mastering which when combined results in the fully mastered track and increased quality of audio. 

This is my perfect audio mastering chain list: 

  1. Spectrum analyser & meter
  2. Corrective EQ
  3. Creative EQ
  4. Glue compression
  5. Mid/Side split
  6. Power compression
  7. Clipper
  8. Mid/Side limiter
  9. Limiter
  10. Metering

Let me talk you through my mastering chain and the reasons why I’m using it in such order. 

Audio mastering signal chain explenation

01. Spectrum analyser & meter 

To make sure you know what’s the starting gain in both dB and LUFS I recommend having metering plugin as a first in the chain. It also helps if the plugin has spectrum analyser so you can see troubling frequencies before you start mastering. 

02. Corrective EQ

As a second plugin in your chain you should have EQ, where you’ll be able to analyse and fix unwanted frequencies and tackle them eg. high pass filter.

03. Creatve EQ

This is the stage where you can be creative with your EQ’ing after the previous, corrective stage. This is where you can add some “colour” and style to your master.

04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

Download pdf
Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?

GET STARTED

So what is mastering chain? The mastering chain is a set of audio processes used in a specific order during the mastering which when combined results in the fully mastered track and increased quality of audio. 

This is my perfect audio mastering chain list: 

  1. Spectrum analyser & meter
  2. Corrective EQ
  3. Creative EQ
  4. Glue compression
  5. Mid/Side split
  6. Power compression
  7. Clipper
  8. Mid/Side limiter
  9. Limiter
  10. Metering

Let me talk you through my mastering chain and the reasons why I’m using it in such order. 

Audio mastering signal chain explenation

01. Spectrum analyser & meter 

To make sure you know what’s the starting gain in both dB and LUFS I recommend having metering plugin as a first in the chain. It also helps if the plugin has spectrum analyser so you can see troubling frequencies before you start mastering. 

02. Corrective EQ

As a second plugin in your chain you should have EQ, where you’ll be able to analyse and fix unwanted frequencies and tackle them eg. high pass filter.

03. Creatve EQ

This is the stage where you can be creative with your EQ’ing after the previous, corrective stage. This is where you can add some “colour” and style to your master.

04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

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05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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When I first started mastering over 10 years ago the term mastering chain was little known. Back then I had no idea what mastering chain was but now I can share this information with you. 

So what is mastering chain? The mastering chain is a set of audio processes used in a specific order during the mastering which when combined results in the fully mastered track and increased quality of audio. 

This is my perfect audio mastering chain list: 

  1. Spectrum analyser & meter
  2. Corrective EQ
  3. Creative EQ
  4. Glue compression
  5. Mid/Side split
  6. Power compression
  7. Clipper
  8. Mid/Side limiter
  9. Limiter
  10. Metering

Let me talk you through my mastering chain and the reasons why I’m using it in such order. 

Audio mastering signal chain explenation

01. Spectrum analyser & meter 

To make sure you know what’s the starting gain in both dB and LUFS I recommend having metering plugin as a first in the chain. It also helps if the plugin has spectrum analyser so you can see troubling frequencies before you start mastering. 

02. Corrective EQ

As a second plugin in your chain you should have EQ, where you’ll be able to analyse and fix unwanted frequencies and tackle them eg. high pass filter.

03. Creatve EQ

This is the stage where you can be creative with your EQ’ing after the previous, corrective stage. This is where you can add some “colour” and style to your master.

04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

Download pdf
Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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Mastering vs Mixing

4 main differences

When I first started mastering over 10 years ago the term mastering chain was little known. Back then I had no idea what mastering chain was but now I can share this information with you. 

So what is mastering chain? The mastering chain is a set of audio processes used in a specific order during the mastering which when combined results in the fully mastered track and increased quality of audio. 

This is my perfect audio mastering chain list: 

  1. Spectrum analyser & meter
  2. Corrective EQ
  3. Creative EQ
  4. Glue compression
  5. Mid/Side split
  6. Power compression
  7. Clipper
  8. Mid/Side limiter
  9. Limiter
  10. Metering

Let me talk you through my mastering chain and the reasons why I’m using it in such order. 

Audio mastering signal chain explenation

01. Spectrum analyser & meter 

To make sure you know what’s the starting gain in both dB and LUFS I recommend having metering plugin as a first in the chain. It also helps if the plugin has spectrum analyser so you can see troubling frequencies before you start mastering. 

02. Corrective EQ

As a second plugin in your chain you should have EQ, where you’ll be able to analyse and fix unwanted frequencies and tackle them eg. high pass filter.

03. Creatve EQ

This is the stage where you can be creative with your EQ’ing after the previous, corrective stage. This is where you can add some “colour” and style to your master.

04. Glue compression

To “glue” everything together you should now use a compressor. Don’t overdo it with the amount. Just enough to “glue” all the previous stages of EQ’ing together. Set a low ratio. You don’t want to get “compressed” sound 

FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

The Ultimate Mastering Chain Cheat Sheet File

Download pdf
Mastering chain cheat sheet

05. Mid/Side split 

This is a good place to use mid/side plugin where you could boost the presence of either mid signal or side signal. Mid signal boost will give you more power, whilst side boost will open up your master and make it sound bigger. 

06. Power compression

Use this stage to add a bit of power to your master. Make sure your threshold doesn’t affect the natural sound too much but at the same time the compressor delivers a nice lift of perceived volume. 

07. Clipper 

With the clipper you can push your signal to the set sealing (I suggest -0.5dB) to set the stage for the final volume check in the next step. 

08. Mid/Side limiter

Get creative with mid/side limiter and split your signal to different bands, push different frequencies to make your master sound bigger. 

09. Limiter 

Finish off with a stereo limiter where you can set the final volume and dynamics of your master. Make sure your sealing is set to max -0.5dB.

10. Metering

As a last in your chain have the metering plugin to monitor the final volume and LUFS level and make sure your song won’t get penalised by Spotify, iTunes etc. You can use the same plugin as in the first step. 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

Mindset

What I mean by mindset. See, when you sit down to your mixing process, your mixing session, you know you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking, compressing, automation, all that kind of stuff. 

Well, during the mastering stage, you have to be really decisive. You have to sit down and know, like right, I have half an hour, forty minutes to master the song. 

Why I’m talking about the mindset? See, during the mixing stage, you spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure it out what will be the best way to to glue things together and the mixing process but during the mastering stage you don’t really have those options, right?

 

I hope that was helpful.

If you want to learn more about mastering or you want to learn the whole process of mastering, I got an online course, where I teach all the stuff that I know about mastering, the processes and the ways to use different plugins, and it’s all based on free plugins so you don’t have to have any of the expensive plug ins.

Thanks,

Tom

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Tom
Hey! I really hope all the articles here will help you understand the audio and the processes a bit more and ultimately improve your sound! Who am I? I'm Tom S. Ray and I'm head mastering engineer at Audio Unity Group. I also hold a bachelor with hounors degree in music from Kingston University in London, I lecture mastering to students in Edinburgh College and to my online students via my Mastering Mastery audio mastering online course.

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