Mastering

Essential steps in mastering are:

Total volume

Bringing up the volume of the song to make it comparable with other commercial releases

Appropriate volume

Giving each song an appropriate volume to match the music style

Matching album songs

Balancing different songs on an album

Final touch

Giving a final touch to the song without making big changes

Various speaker systems

Making sure the song sounds good on different listening environments

Create Master Files

Creation of the required files for publication: e.g. WAV 16 bit 44.1kHz

While mixing is about combining individual tracks into a single stereo track , mastering is about giving the final touch to the mixed stereo track. It is the last step before your song gets released for sale or streaming.

To achieve these goals a good and experienced mastering engineer is needed. He has to know how to use his gear and also the characteristics of different musical genres.

Along with a good monitoring system, an acoustically treated room is very important. Without this solid foundation, wrong decisions are made very quickly and the result just does not sound professional.

Even a person without a lot of knowledge about mixing and mastering can recognize a badly mixed and mastered song in comparison to a good one.
Oftentimes the mastering engineer is also the person that sits down with the band or the artist to talk about the order of the songs on the album. Furthermore, he is the one that puts so called fade-outs on certain songs or makes songs on an album play without a break between them.

Nowadays the mastering engineer also makes sure that songs sound well on all streaming platforms like Spotify or Apple music.

We have the equipment, the know-how and the passion to make your music sound fantastic in every listening situation.

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