Mixing and mastering. 4 main differences.
There’s fair amount of confusion where it comes to mixing and mastering and my mission is to clear things up a bit. So here they are, 4 differences between mixing and mastering.
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]]>Mixing and mastering. 4 main differences.
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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
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?
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
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?
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
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?
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
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?
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
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?
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
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?
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
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?
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
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?
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
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?
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
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?
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
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?
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
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?
This is my perfect audio mastering chain list:
- Spectrum analyser & meter
- Corrective EQ
- Creative EQ
- Glue compression
- Mid/Side split
- Power compression
- Clipper
- Mid/Side limiter
- Limiter
- 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
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?
This is my perfect audio mastering chain list:
- Spectrum analyser & meter
- Corrective EQ
- Creative EQ
- Glue compression
- Mid/Side split
- Power compression
- Clipper
- Mid/Side limiter
- Limiter
- 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
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?
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:
- Spectrum analyser & meter
- Corrective EQ
- Creative EQ
- Glue compression
- Mid/Side split
- Power compression
- Clipper
- Mid/Side limiter
- Limiter
- 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
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?
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:
- Spectrum analyser & meter
- Corrective EQ
- Creative EQ
- Glue compression
- Mid/Side split
- Power compression
- Clipper
- Mid/Side limiter
- Limiter
- 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
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?
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:
- Spectrum analyser & meter
- Corrective EQ
- Creative EQ
- Glue compression
- Mid/Side split
- Power compression
- Clipper
- Mid/Side limiter
- Limiter
- 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
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?
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:
- Spectrum analyser & meter
- Corrective EQ
- Creative EQ
- Glue compression
- Mid/Side split
- Power compression
- Clipper
- Mid/Side limiter
- Limiter
- 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
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?
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If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
Work Ethics
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
Gear vs Talent
What’s more important
People always wonder – how important is the audio gear versus talent in audio mastering? In my opinion, as in every music production facets, 90% is the talent and 10% audio equipment. Let me elaborate.
Talent
By talent I mean mindset, work ethics and understanding of music. To be good at any aspect of our life you have to to have growth mindset. You have to be open minded and willing to take on new challenges. Putting yourself in uncomfortable position where you learning something new even if that means you have to spend x amount of hours getting it is a main ingredient of the talent.
The great example here is my audio mastering course where you are exposed to new knowledge and with the right guidance you’re able to build up your talent.
Work Ethics
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
Gear vs Talent
What’s more important
People always wonder – how important is the audio gear versus talent in audio mastering? In my opinion, as in every music production facets, 90% is the talent and 10% audio equipment. Let me elaborate.
Talent
By talent I mean mindset, work ethics and understanding of music. To be good at any aspect of our life you have to to have growth mindset. You have to be open minded and willing to take on new challenges. Putting yourself in uncomfortable position where you learning something new even if that means you have to spend x amount of hours getting it is a main ingredient of the talent.
The great example here is my audio mastering course where you are exposed to new knowledge and with the right guidance you’re able to build up your talent.
Work Ethics
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
Gear vs Talent
What’s more important
People always wonder – how important is the audio gear versus talent in audio mastering? In my opinion, as in every music production facets, 90% is the talent and 10% audio equipment. Let me elaborate.
Talent
By talent I mean mindset, work ethics and understanding of music. To be good at any aspect of our life you have to to have growth mindset. You have to be open minded and willing to take on new challenges. Putting yourself in uncomfortable position where you learning something new even if that means you have to spend x amount of hours getting it is a main ingredient of the talent.
The great example here is my audio mastering course where you are exposed to new knowledge and with the right guidance you’re able to build up your talent.
Work Ethics
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
Talent
By talent I mean mindset, work ethics and understanding of music. To be good at any aspect of our life you have to to have growth mindset. You have to be open minded and willing to take on new challenges. Putting yourself in uncomfortable position where you learning something new even if that means you have to spend x amount of hours getting it is a main ingredient of the talent.
The great example here is my audio mastering course where you are exposed to new knowledge and with the right guidance you’re able to build up your talent.
Work Ethics
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
Gear vs Talent
What’s more important
People always wonder – how important is the audio gear versus talent in audio mastering? In my opinion, as in every music production facets, 90% is the talent and 10% audio equipment. Let me elaborate.
Talent
By talent I mean mindset, work ethics and understanding of music. To be good at any aspect of our life you have to to have growth mindset. You have to be open minded and willing to take on new challenges. Putting yourself in uncomfortable position where you learning something new even if that means you have to spend x amount of hours getting it is a main ingredient of the talent.
The great example here is my audio mastering course where you are exposed to new knowledge and with the right guidance you’re able to build up your talent.
Work Ethics
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
Talent
By talent I mean mindset, work ethics and understanding of music. To be good at any aspect of our life you have to to have growth mindset. You have to be open minded and willing to take on new challenges. Putting yourself in uncomfortable position where you learning something new even if that means you have to spend x amount of hours getting it is a main ingredient of the talent.
The great example here is my audio mastering course where you are exposed to new knowledge and with the right guidance you’re able to build up your talent.
Work Ethics
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
Gear vs Talent
What’s more important
People always wonder – how important is the audio gear versus talent in audio mastering? In my opinion, as in every music production facets, 90% is the talent and 10% audio equipment. Let me elaborate.
Talent
By talent I mean mindset, work ethics and understanding of music. To be good at any aspect of our life you have to to have growth mindset. You have to be open minded and willing to take on new challenges. Putting yourself in uncomfortable position where you learning something new even if that means you have to spend x amount of hours getting it is a main ingredient of the talent.
The great example here is my audio mastering course where you are exposed to new knowledge and with the right guidance you’re able to build up your talent.
Work Ethics
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
Work Ethics
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
Talent
By talent I mean mindset, work ethics and understanding of music. To be good at any aspect of our life you have to to have growth mindset. You have to be open minded and willing to take on new challenges. Putting yourself in uncomfortable position where you learning something new even if that means you have to spend x amount of hours getting it is a main ingredient of the talent.
The great example here is my audio mastering course where you are exposed to new knowledge and with the right guidance you’re able to build up your talent.
Work Ethics
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
Gear vs Talent
What’s more important
People always wonder – how important is the audio gear versus talent in audio mastering? In my opinion, as in every music production facets, 90% is the talent and 10% audio equipment. Let me elaborate.
Talent
By talent I mean mindset, work ethics and understanding of music. To be good at any aspect of our life you have to to have growth mindset. You have to be open minded and willing to take on new challenges. Putting yourself in uncomfortable position where you learning something new even if that means you have to spend x amount of hours getting it is a main ingredient of the talent.
The great example here is my audio mastering course where you are exposed to new knowledge and with the right guidance you’re able to build up your talent.
Work Ethics
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN AUDIO MASTERING?
Work Ethics
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
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Talent
By talent I mean mindset, work ethics and understanding of music. To be good at any aspect of our life you have to to have growth mindset. You have to be open minded and willing to take on new challenges. Putting yourself in uncomfortable position where you learning something new even if that means you have to spend x amount of hours getting it is a main ingredient of the talent.
The great example here is my audio mastering course where you are exposed to new knowledge and with the right guidance you’re able to build up your talent.
Work Ethics
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
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Gear vs Talent
What’s more important
People always wonder – how important is the audio gear versus talent in audio mastering? In my opinion, as in every music production facets, 90% is the talent and 10% audio equipment. Let me elaborate.
Talent
By talent I mean mindset, work ethics and understanding of music. To be good at any aspect of our life you have to to have growth mindset. You have to be open minded and willing to take on new challenges. Putting yourself in uncomfortable position where you learning something new even if that means you have to spend x amount of hours getting it is a main ingredient of the talent.
The great example here is my audio mastering course where you are exposed to new knowledge and with the right guidance you’re able to build up your talent.
Work Ethics
If you work hard enough, learn as much as you can and follow the instructions you building up your work ethics. For example, if you getting asked to master songs where you can hear a lot of mistakes in the mix and can’t get the new mix off the mix engineer you have to find a way to tackle those problems, find solution and achieve great sounding master. You can do that by constantly learning how to fix issues and how to prevent them happening in the future.
Last part of the talent is the understanding of music. As a mastering engineer you have to be able to adopt to different styles of music, requirements and preferences. This is what I mention a lot in my mastering course – get to know the music by listening the music (listening a lot).
The remaining 10% is the gear. It might seems like a very small percentage of the whole but even if you have the best gear in the world, the most expensive monitors, great acoustics if you’re not willing to learn, work hard and discover new music styles your masters won’t be that good.
Tom
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]]>Audio mastering: Creating clean sound only using EQ
This is pretty common question and the one that can cause a bit of confusion. We have to remember that often time the quality of our master is dependable on the quality of the mix.
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]]>Audio mastering: Creating clean sound only using EQ
This is pretty common question and the one that can cause a bit of confusion. We have to remember that often time the quality of our master is dependable on the quality of the mix.
Let me explain. The audio mastering process is performed on one stereo channel. Not as in mixing few separate channels. Obviously having control over each of the instruments during the mixing stage is very beneficial to the quality of the mix and the final master.
When the mix you’ve received from your mixing engineer is well balance, properly edited and EQ’ed chances are that the EQ’ing during mastering stage will be minimal. Instead of fighting with the trouble frequencies you’ll have to gently cut or boost some of them to get the best out of great sounding mix.
On the other hand if the mix is dull, muddy, and generally badly mixed you’ll have to spend a lot of time trying to fix it. In my audio mastering course I show how to tackle such problematic mix to get pretty good sounding master.
Remember, if the mix is horrible don’t try to force yourself fixing it. Often time it’s easier (and healthier) to get back to the mix engineer and request a new mix.
Tom
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Clean Sound.
Getting clean sound only by using EQ
This is pretty common question and the one that can cause a bit of confusion. We have to remember that often time the quality of our master is dependable on the quality of the mix.
Let me explain. The audio mastering process is performed on one stereo channel. Not as in mixing few separate channels. Obviously having control over each of the instruments during the mixing stage is very beneficial to the quality of the mix and the final master.
When the mix you’ve received from your mixing engineer is well balance, properly edited and EQ’ed chances are that the EQ’ing during mastering stage will be minimal. Instead of fighting with the trouble frequencies you’ll have to gently cut or boost some of them to get the best out of great sounding mix.
On the other hand if the mix is dull, muddy, and generally badly mixed you’ll have to spend a lot of time trying to fix it. In my audio mastering course I show how to tackle such problematic mix to get pretty good sounding master.
Remember, if the mix is horrible don’t try to force yourself fixing it. Often time it’s easier (and healthier) to get back to the mix engineer and request a new mix.
Tom
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