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September 12, 2006


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Mastering Tips for the Personal Studio

Excerpt from Electronic Musician

Should you decide to master your own project, your best asset is time. Building in sufficient time helps you in two ways. First, it allows you to set your mixes aside long enough to gain some objectivity. Only by taking a few steps back can you be sure you're seeing the forest instead of obsessing over individual trees.

Second, extra time gives you the opportunity to listen to your mixes on a variety of playback systems. Checking your sound in the car, on a boom box, over big and small speakers, and with or without a subwoofer helps level the playing field between you and the mastering engineer who has 20 years' experience and a monitoring system worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Start with the order and spacing, Resist the urge to normalize, Use a limiter to tame the peaks, Watch the compression, Try to maintain 24-bit, More Tips....

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The Masters on Mastering

Excerpt from Electronic Musician

Bob Ludwig

Gateway Mastering

Gateway Mastering and DVD's Bob Ludwig is concerned that some people's practice of making masters can get as loud as possible can detract from the musicality of the final product.

Everybody wants their disc to sound great, but it seems that nowadays a lot of people equate "best" with "loudest." That puts a lot of pressure on mastering engineers to compress their masters heavily so that they can achieve as hot a level as possible. 

According to Ludwig, however, this is anything but a healthy development.

Read more about mastering...

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