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Mastering the Music
« Thread Started on Aug 20, 2010, 6:20am »

Mastering the recorded music track is crucial for the saleability of the track. Mastering makes up for any kind of deficiency that might have been present in the recorded track. This is essentially true when there is more than one track present in the album. Mastering fine chunes the tracks and makes it sound professional. This process is absolutely indispensable if the tracks are used for commercial release. Mastering is done to synchronize the tracks in an album. This would mean that when one track finishes, it doesn’t lead to another track which is totally different from the first one, in terms of volume and other details. For e.g.: Mastering would ensure that the volume of track 1 is the same as that of track 15 in the album. This is important unless you want to keep changing the volume every time the track changes. When the track is to be released commercially, it will hugely impact its sales if it is not mastered properly. The mastering process maintains the consistency of the tracks in the album. Another important factor that calls for the necessity of mastering is that the final product sounds good in any medium or any space, whether it is played on the speakers on which it was created or on any other music system. The recorded track has to sound good everywhere, not just in the studio. Mastering cannot be performed by any person but it calls for specialized knowledge. Only a trained ear will be able to add value to the composed and recorded track. The growth in demand for mastering, online mastering services have come up that offer competent mastering for your precious album.

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Re: Mastering the Music
« Reply #1 on Aug 20, 2010, 2:40pm »

Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master); the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication). The format of choice these days is digital masters although analog masters, such as audio tapes, are still being used by the manufacturing industry and a few engineers who have specialized themselves in analog mastering. In the 1990s, electro-mechanical processes were largely superseded by digital technology, with digital recordings stored on HDDs or Digital Tape and transferred to CD. The digital audio workstation (DAW) became common in many mastering facilities, allowing the off-line manipulation of recorded audio via a graphical user interface (GUI). Although many digital processing tools are common during mastering, it is also very common to use analog media and processing equipment for the mastering stage. Just as in other areas of audio, the benefits and drawbacks of digital technology compared to analog technology is still a matter of debate. However, in the field of audio mastering, the debate is usually over the use of digital versus analog signal processing rather than the use of digital technology for storage of audio. Although in reality there isn't such a thing as an "optimum mix level for mastering", the example on this picture to the right only suggests what mix levels are ideal for the studio engineer to render and for the mastering engineer to process. It's very important to allow enough headroom for the mastering engineer's work. Many mastering engineers working with digital equipment would agree that a minimum of 3 to 6 dB of available headroom is critical to perform good mastering. Ideal peak levels should not exceed -3dBFSD and the average sum of the left and right channels should be at around -10 to -18 dBFSD (As shown on the picture to the right).
There are mastering engineers who feel that digital technology, as of 2007, has not progressed enough in quality to supersede analog technology entirely. Many top mastering studios, including Bernie Grundman Mastering (which has mastered 37 Grammy-nominated albums), and Gateway Mastering still embrace analog signal processing (such as analog equalization) within the mastering process. Additionally, the latest advances in analog mastering technology include 120V signal rails for previously unavailable headroom of 150dB as well as frequency response ranging from 3 Hz to 300 kHz.[citation needed] In order to duplicate this frequency response in digital domain, a sampling rate of at least 600 kHz would be required, by the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem. However, it is pertinent that the extremes of these frequency ranges (3 Hz to 19 Hz and 21 kHz to 300 kHz) are effectively inaudible and fall outside the range of both human hearing and most professional microphones.

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Re: Mastering the Music
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Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Pre-1940s
1.2 Advances
1.3 Digital technology
2 The studio
3 Process
4 Audio mastering tools (hardware)
5 Audio mastering tools (software)
6 See also
7 References

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Re: Mastering the Music
« Reply #3 on Oct 7, 2010, 4:09am »

Hi
How to find the best music Mastering?Soon I'll be taking the next step of getting my music mastered and I'm having trouble finding someone to use. The price ranges variations are huge and I don't have the biggest budget but I want it to be really really good mastering. There's like no way to Dr. Garbanzoure out who's best though.
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