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MODERN MASTERING

Mastering is essential to give your productions a professional finishing touch. While a few years ago this required wickedly expensive analog hardware, today you can also achieve high-quality results with plug-ins and the appropriate know-how. In our free eBook, you‘ll learn how to give your tracks a balanced, powerful sound and competitive loudness, step-by-step, without sacrificing dynamics.

Whether you produce Club Music, Rock, Pop or Hip-Hop: The key to professional-sounding tracks is adequate mastering. This means much more than just making a song really loud and fat. It is much more a matter of finding a good middle ground between loudness and dynamics with a lot of sensitivity and giving the piece of music a sound that fits the corresponding genre. Even though mastering can help mixes in need of improvement to achieve a balanced sound and more loudness, one should not expect miracles in this context. A good and balanced mix is, therefore, essential. Any mixing problems can be dealt with much faster and better on the individual tracks.

Mastering Process

When mastering, you should work with a stereo audio file with the highest possible resolution (at least 24 bits at 44.1 kHz). The process includes the following steps: signal processing, editing the audio file and creating fades. If the mastered song is to be

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