Mastering

How loud is loud enough, and how loud is too loud?

EQ will make or break your master. It's the single most important factor in mastering, once you've decided the loudness...

In this six-part video tutorial series, produced in association with Steinberg, well-known mastering engineer Ian...

Without a firm grasp of these three ‘core concepts’ of mastering, you’ll always struggle to get great results. In Part 2 of his series for SOS, mastering engineer Ian Shepherd describes his “Three Ms of Mastering”, and why he thinks they’re so important.

MAAT's mastering equaliser models the characteristics of 12 analogue EQ designs, but leaves out their real-world drawbacks!

We look at the sweetening tools on offer for mastering in Studio One.

Studio One's Project window offers a fully fledged mastering environment.

If the loudness sits below -14LUFS, can I rely on the streaming services to apply their normalisation process to bring up the level when the song is streamed?

IK Multimedia take home-studio mastering to the MAX — and beyond!

The move away from traditional studio production has opened up new opportunities for mastering engineers like Piper Payne — but it’s also brought new challenges.

For audio mastering, Fred Anton Corvest’s new Maxima app might be ideal for users simply looking to get the final audio levels right with a bit of compression or limiting...

The latest versions of iZotope’s Ozone and Neutron are not only more intelligent than their predecessors, they can also communicate with one another.

Drawing our mini-series to a close, we take you on a detailed tour of the mix and mastering stages of the Damnation’s Hammer album Unseen Planets, Deadly Spheres.

Getting the tonality of your mix right is one of the most challenging aspects of home mastering. Thankfully, ‘profiling EQ’ plug-ins can help.

Streaming is now the most important way in which music is consumed. So how can you make sure your music sounds as good as possible?

I’m using Ableton Live and bounced my last few finished tracks in the 32-bit float format. I’d rather not have too many different versions of the same tracks floating around, so is there a preferred word length for when I bounce files out for mastering?

The EQ4M features the same Air Band that put Mäag on the EQ map — plus a whole lot more!