Mastering
Final step before you release your sound track, couple of procedures are followed in order to get a final master piece. Audio restoration for a clear mix. Attuning the muds while shining the overall mix, slight compression with multiband spectrum for improving quality. Stereo widening to make it sound large. Limiting your track to right peak ceiling and final step is to listening on all possible platforms for exact pristine sound.
It sound so simple, but the real effort is to master your ear. After all sound engineering is actually ear engineering
Steps for Mastering
Noise Reduction
Linear Phase Equalization
Bass Enhancing
Tube & Parallel Compression
Mastering Reverb
Adding Ambience
Stereo Widening
Dynamic Expansion
Fades & Crossfades
Peak Limiting
Maximization
Analog Summing Mastering
Text/ISRC Encoding
Complete CD Mastering
Dithering
Final Bouncing track in Stereo, Mono – Wave & Mp3 Format
Things to Remember
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Please specify Name & BPM along with your project stems
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No dithering and normalizing
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Please be careful with your bounced tracks/stems, they should no clip or distort and should be loud enough till -6 to -10db
Important
To make your master track compatible for iTunes upload, your stems sample rate should be at least 24 bits and 96KHz in wave format. These settings make your mastered track sound exactly the same in every live streaming site and devices, as it sounds in a studio before bouncing or exporting to Wave or Mp3 format.
If your audio interface/sound card is unable to record your tracks to this much of sample rate, then try to record your project to 24 bits & 48KHz sample rate. That will also result to a great mix.
(Conversion of lower sample rates to higher will still sound same as dull and will result in degraded sounding Master).
Plugins
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Waves Plugins
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Slate Digital plugins
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Universal Audio Plugins
Hardware
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ART Pro VLA II – Compressor
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ART EQ 355 – Graphic Equalizer
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API 5500 – Dual equalizer
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BAX EQ – Parametric Equalizer
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M100 – Multi Effect Processor
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SSL - Fusion
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MBox Pro – Soundcard & AD/DA Convertor - 24bit/192KHz