Audio mastering in Logic: An alternate way to set up your mastering project.

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When mastering audio in Logic, there are a number of ways to set up your project and process the audio. Here is one way of really breaking down the track, and re-building it using buses, Mid/Side encoding, Parallel compression, Reverb and the standard tools EQ and Compression, as filmed by Robert Goldie of UWS Music Technology module.

Of course, this might be useful for some people, a completely normal way of mastering for others, or some might disagree with these techniques entirely as mastering is completely subjective to the individual, but i thought this post might help people to think differently about the way they approach Audio mastering in Logic, and hopefully might help someone out.

The end result of this method is the signal gets split into mid and side, and EQ'd separately. These get bused and recombined after EQ to the M&S track. Parallel compression is added. The M&S gets combined to Aux 3 with the parallel compression, an optional aux reverb (with EQ) is available if needed, and the sum of all tracks get sent to the final "all channels track", where the signal can be EQ'd, Compressed and Limited.

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[bchamorro]

what exactly is this?

[GlowcastAudio]

@bchamorro hey, could you be more specific?

this is setting up a template for a mastering project

[mnstudio]

@hamsaladsausage Aahh I see... Interesting. I wonder... Mid-Side principally widens the sound?

[hamsaladsausage]

@mnstudio the "original" is only there for reference: to skip to and check that you aren't straying too far from the original sound, while the mid/side combination of tracks 2 and 3 will make up the master audio. Don't see this as a way to set up every project though: this is just showing you some different ways you can use logic when it comes to mastering, there are some round-about ways you can tackle mastering with these features but often a track won't need you to be so complex :)

[mnstudio]

@hamsaladsausage So in this set up you have 3 layers: 1. Original, 2. Mid-Side Dry (with potential EQ), 3. Mid-Side Parallel. Right?

[hamsaladsausage]

@mnstudio yes, exactly. And the faders would be set entirely to your taste as to what sounds good

[mnstudio]

Very interesting the movie, but I can't exactly understand where the track would be...

1 original and then duplicated on 2 and 3?

And how indicatively would you set the faders?

Many thanks

[hamsaladsausage]

@beatsbyfrank absolutely

[beatsbyfrank]

Wud this technique be good for rap beats?

[thepartyhalloffame]

good tutorial, MS processing is a really old and powerful mastering technique still used by many engineers today

[theydontknowyet]

slightly off topic but ive just pluged in a nes USB mic and for some reason my projects dont seem to have the little R icon on the channels, like yous. how do i solve that??

[DjEvolux]

How do I copy a plugin? Apple + alt + click? Thanks..