What is Mastering?
Mastering is the final step in your recording project. As you record each individual track peak levels and eq's vary from song to song. Mastering balances out each song to make your record sound consistant across the board. In addition to balancing peak levels and eq's for album projects mastering makes it so your song sounds the same on any medium. This is crucial if you want radio play. Radio broadcasting uses processors, compressors, limiters, enhancers to send your song through the air and into our homes. If the song has not been raised to a proper peak level the song will sound low and muffled over the airwaves. Consequently if the song is too loud it will distort. Have you ever listened to a song, from a local band, over the radio and all you could hear was the vocals or your volume increased or decreased with the dynamics of the song? This is because the song was not mastered. Mastering compresses and raises the song to optimal peak levels so the sound coming over the radio is even and consistant.
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Mastering
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| includes audio enhancing equalization and compression |
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Audio Enhancing
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| adjust gaps between songs, level & balance each track, sequence record |
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