Many people don’t understand the Premastering and mastering process and see it as an unnecessary expense. Having committed months of devoted work to a project, it is often difficult to understand how a total stranger could improve the final product. After all, if your mix didn’t sound right, you wouldn’t left the studio.
As explained before, these steps occur after your recording is mixed, and before CD and cassettes manufacturing are done. It is both the last creative process in the marketing of an album and the first step in the manufacturing process. Every major-label release is mastered to repair it for radio play and retail sale. The reason is? A good mastering engineer puts the whole album in perspective, subtly enhancing the balance the connection between songs and the focus of the project as a whole.
In the studio you record one song at a time, resulting in songs that all peak at different levels and have different EQ etc. A mastering engineer attempts to unify the album with skilful use of EQ, gain and compression to give it a consistence of sound from track to track, and to make sure that it will sound the way you want it to on ordinary stereo systems. This mastering process allows the engineers to raise the overall level so your album is as hot as a major album release.
Mastering can also be helpful for fixing problems like “pops” , out of phase tracks, and overall noise reduction, but the main advantage is that an unbiased sound professional has the opportunity to evaluate your master tape and determine whether you are getting the most of your production.
Some disc duplication company offers free preview masters to determine what benefit can be achieved after mastering the whole album or a single track. Search on google for mastering and post productions, you will find more information on it .
As explained before, these steps occur after your recording is mixed, and before CD and cassettes manufacturing are done. It is both the last creative process in the marketing of an album and the first step in the manufacturing process. Every major-label release is mastered to repair it for radio play and retail sale. The reason is? A good mastering engineer puts the whole album in perspective, subtly enhancing the balance the connection between songs and the focus of the project as a whole.
In the studio you record one song at a time, resulting in songs that all peak at different levels and have different EQ etc. A mastering engineer attempts to unify the album with skilful use of EQ, gain and compression to give it a consistence of sound from track to track, and to make sure that it will sound the way you want it to on ordinary stereo systems. This mastering process allows the engineers to raise the overall level so your album is as hot as a major album release.
Mastering can also be helpful for fixing problems like “pops” , out of phase tracks, and overall noise reduction, but the main advantage is that an unbiased sound professional has the opportunity to evaluate your master tape and determine whether you are getting the most of your production.
Some disc duplication company offers free preview masters to determine what benefit can be achieved after mastering the whole album or a single track. Search on google for mastering and post productions, you will find more information on it .
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