1. Loudness Tips and Tricks
(Category/Recording Advices)

Although this article is about mixing for loudness, not mastering for loudness, the two arts are inextricably linked. It's no secret that there's still a loudness war waging, putting pressure on mastering ...

2. Effects and Plugins - Delay, Reverb, Chorus, Phaser, Flanger
(Category/Recording Utilities)

... compressors, meanwhile, apply different amounts of compression or limiting to different frequency ranges, and are used in the mastering process to make the mix sound louder than it actually is. A gate ...

3. How To Record, Mix And Master An Acoustic Band
(Category/Recording Advices)

... So, quiet, studio, please... Mastering and finishing up Before your mix is ready for mass consumption, it has to go through the stage known as mastering. Thanks to the way that music technology ...

4. Digital Headroom
(Category/Recording Advices)

... of headroom and then save the limiting for a separate mastering stage. This ensures that the output doesn't clip but also doesn't color the sound or squash the dynamic range of your track. One notable ...

5. PreSonus Studio One Pro
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

... of songs for mastering and distribution. This process is aided by a some great visual analysis tools. The icing on the cake though is the way that the software keeps track of your mixdowns and ensures ...

6. Home Audio Mastering
(Category/Recording Advices)

Having talked in the Mastering Theory article about how professional mastering engineers take your tracks and apply the finishing touches, now we're going to look at the DIY approach. We'll guide you in ...

7. Mastering
(Category/Recording Advices)

One of the most mysterious aspects of the music making process is mastering. Thanks to a combination of misinformation and good old-fashioned misunderstanding, a number of myths surround the mastering ...

8. Harmonic Distortion
(Category/Recording Advices)

... can also be heard as the inevitable by-product of excessive hard limiting used in mastering over the last decade. Amplification Amplifiers are, on the whole, designed to incur as little harmonic distortion ...

9. Ableton Live
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

... Live to the mix. Mixing from decks to Live and back is as simple as mixing with two decks. Live also acts as a powerful effects box, sampler and, of course, recording device for capturing and mastering ...

10. Propellerhead Reason
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

... drum machine, REX file loop player, professional mastering tools, mixer, vocoder, world class effects, pattern sequencer and more. As many of each as your computer can handle. Reason is an infinitely expandable ...

11. Cakewalk Sonar
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

SONAR 8 gives you what you need for recording, composing, editing, mixing, and mastering. Get innovations that matter, from exclusive features to ignite creativity and perfect your tracks, to groundbreaking ...

12. Music Mixing Software
(Uncategorised Content)

... combined into one single track. In general, this is not the final product yet. The last phase before this mixed track is used to make CDs or other media is mastering. Mixing take care of instruments, levels, ...

13. Music Recording Software
(Uncategorised Content)

... functions that make it better than the competition. Multi-track recording, mastering, special effects, audio "cleaning", and other features is what you should compare and test. Portability is also ...

14. Professional Recording Studio Software
(Uncategorised Content)

... to run and perform tasks. You need a specialized recording studio software applications to do recording, cleaning, applying effects, mixing, mastering, etc. Ever wondered how some sound studio owners can ...