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Mastering: online, attended, AI, or DIY?

efore getting into the nitty gritty of working with plugins, considering maximum output levels and the difference between average and peak volumes, let’s remind ourselves what mastering is designed to do. On an album, mastering is the final stage where the ‘program’ of musical material is made coherent, with an evenness of tone, dynamics, mix space and width applied to each track,

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