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sleepy

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Elements of Mastering?
« on: January 07, 2016, 01:56:39 am »
So Mat says that mastering isn't just throwing a couple of effects on the master channel. Now I'm asking, why not?  If mastering is just the final step in the process of getting a track to sound club/radio ready by processing a render of that track, why can't that just be done in the master bus of that track's project file?

I want to know what makes mastering an entire process in itself and not just slapping Maximus on the master bus. I still maintain that I could get something sounding nice and loud by just loading effects onto the master, but what would those effects be? What are things to take into consideration? What are the steps in what would be a considered a professional mastering job?

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Re: Elements of Mastering?
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2016, 03:12:21 am »
Essentially, I think Mat was focusing on the theoretical side to it. Mastering is essentially stepping away from the individual elements of the song that you've spent way too long mixing and just looking at it as one track. Shoving a load of processing on the master chain is essentially mixing, as you are still in the headspace of mixing the track and you'll likely go back and edit individual parts mid master section processing.

There's not really a right or wrong answer. If you wanna call putting a limiter on the master chain mastering, you're no more wrong then the rest of us. I'm just saying I think what I wrote above was the message Mat was trying to put across.

Inb4 I completely misinterpreted Mat.
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Re: Elements of Mastering?
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2016, 04:26:57 am »
yea scribit's probably right. mastering is probably just ten percent of the song. if you feel that it's more than that, then it's possible you're still mixing it. not saying that mastering takes less time though, it's similiar to pareto principle, if u talk abt it