![]() ![]() Nailing these techniques and finding out how to apply them in mastering takes about 4-5 years of practice, and usually that's on top of your recording and mix engineering experience. There is no easy or short answer to this. and knowing exactly how and when to apply these processes in a good monitoring situation. Then, in no particular order: EQ skills, using parallel compression, upward compression and/or serial compression, judicious use of multiband processing, using analog gear dedicated to mastering, using digital gear dedicated to mastering, M/S EQ and other M/S processing, intentional harmonic distortion, multi-stage clipping and/or limiting. As you hopefully improve and your reputation improves as well, you will get better mixes in for mastering. When you start out as a mastering engineer you mainly get the s#!+ mixes. Manley MP EQ & Tube Tech compressor LCA 2B.Īny secret weapon I should know about that the "big boys" are using?įirst of all many of the big boys start by getting a great mix. Otherwise, Logic is great for mastering, esp. ![]() No matter what combination of processing thru outboard gear with or w/o Logic plugins, and trying different combos of Logic plugins (adaptive limiter or limiter with multipressor, etc.), I just can't seem to get that extra boost w/o distortion on the output. Everything is sounding great, but my issue is getting that + 3 to 5dB in over all output volume that popular industry mastered music is getting. ![]()
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