Mastering

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!

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!

Are cloud-based mastering services a threat to traditional mastering engineers, or just a cheap alternative for producers who can’t afford the real thing? It depends who you ask...

If you’re feeling limited by your existing limiter, perhaps DMG Audio have the answer?

Multimedia’s T-Racks mastering suite is a modular program: basic core functionality is free, and users build up a collection of tasty processors by making in-app purchases from the company’s Custom Shop.

Tracktion’s Master Mix plug-in is a simple but sophisticated one-stop mastering processor at a remarkably affordable price.

Spektakulatius: With last month’s mixes in the bag, our engineer was tasked with finding and working with a mastering engineer to put the finishing touches to both albums.

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A ground–up rethink of Ozone’s user interface is designed to make it less intimidating to home users.

Although perhaps still regarded as a toy by some, the iPad is carving out a niche as a...

If you want to know how your mixes match up to commercial masters, Harbal will show you!