Reasons why you should have your music mastered (pt. 1 of 2)

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Disc Makers and Mix Magazine present "Sounding Your Best: Mastering Tips and Techniques From The Pros."

This clip explains how a dedicated mastering engineer can help make your CDs sound better by:

- tweaking levels and tonal balance between songs
- cleaning up fades, hiss, pops, clicks, and studio noise
- improving the bass
- lending a fresh set of ears to the project
- checking specific frequencies to help, for example, the vocals pop out
- judiciously applying a little compression, limiting and EQ.

The mastering engineer also lends a fresh set of ears to the project, as well as some quality equipment and a sonically optimal room.

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• Mastering
• Composer
• Replication
• Mix
• Disc
• Makers
• CD
• Engineer
• Master
• Recording
• Studio

[weezul]

the ignorance in these text comments is astounding

[TWEAKER01]

Mastering is listening and assessing first and foremost. There is no substitute for the years of experience and honest monitoring accuracy of a pro mastering facility and engineers who specialize in the craft.

[MATHGODpi]

@WolYou exactly right, sir.

I don't buy into this whole "you must have your music mastered by an official engineer in an official studio" stuff. At the end of the day, the final product must be rid of imperfections (or as close to as possible) and must be pleasurable to listen to. If the 2 criteria are met, who gives a flinging you-know-what about whether or not the person who mastered it is an 'official masterer'.

[thirsokewl]

@weezul Welcome to the internet

[mzwindy]

 RIMS

[Elnufo]

19.587 views but obly 23x thumbs up! LOL

[antagony69]

does it say " THC" in the back? cool

[djdiscomikki]

If you are saying or advising people to not pay a trained, experienced and golden eared mastering engineer to master their music, then you are a complete idiot, and clearly know fuck all about producing, engineering, or recording music. Without good speakers, good gear, an acoustically sound room, and an experienced engineer you will get know where. Cubase will not help you one bit.

[lilseggy]

they mastered my stuff. it made a big difference! they did a great job

[extrahustle]

Don't even stress it man. We need people who think like that. Then the real artists, producers and engineers who take this seriously and respekt the science and knowledge behind audio will continue to separate ourselves from the ignorant wannabes who will never be.....