
De-Essing in Mastering: A Complete Guide to High Frequency Control
De-Essing in Mastering: A Complete Guide to High Frequency Control
De-essing is an essential technique in mastering, used to attenuate unwanted high frequencies, such as vocal sibilants or overly bright transients....

Stem Mastering - Part 2: Selecting and Exporting Stems
NOTE: This is Part 2 of the article: Stem Mastering - Definition and Operating Principles
What Stems
Gang of Four
A possibility, suggested by sound engineer Bob Katz and applicable to most pop-rock genres,...

Mastering Guide for Streaming Platforms: Normalisation, LUFS and Loudness
Mastering Guide for Streaming Platforms: Normalisation, LUFS and Loudness
With the 84% of digital music consumed via streaming in 2023, it has never been more important to understand how to optimise mastering for platforms...

Mastering Guide for Streaming Platforms: Balancing Equalisation and More
Mastering Guide for Streaming Platforms: Balancing Equalisation and More
Equalisation (EQ) is a fundamental step in mastering, correcting tonal problems, enhancing frequency balance and...

Essential Tips and Tools for Aspiring Producers: A Guide to Getting Started
The Beginning of the Journey
A Master of Musical Beauty
For Julio Reyes Copello, Colombian music producer and winner of 14 Grammys, including Latin Grammy 2022 as Producer of the Year, the musical journey began at the age of 4,...

Editing in mastering: handling cuts and fades at the head, tail and also in the middle
Editing in mastering
Before, during or after the various mastering operations, at some point it will be necessary to carry out editing operations, here understood essentially as audio editing, obviously to be applied to the finished mixes and,...

Analogue and digital audio recording: considerations and comparisons
Analogue and digital audio
Irreconcilable is the ongoing debate between the supporters of analogue and those of digital.
If it can be a reference, I don't mind quoting the opinion of a musician who is considered one of the greatest...

MS Mastering
MS MASTERING
So-called M/S Mastering involves the execution of certain types of processing operations, executable between one encoding operation and another decoding operation of the mix, which transforms the L-R (Left-Right) matrix into a...

Stem Mastering - The rules for a correct process
NOTE
This article can be considered a continuation of an earlier introductory article, entitled:
Stem Mastering - Basic Principles
What Stems
Gang of Four
One possibility, suggested by sound engineer Bob Katz and applicable...

Stem Mastering - Part 1: Definition and operating principles
Stem Mastering
We could also call it Multi Track Mastering and define it as a middle way between a simplified Mix and the more usual Single Track Mastering.
Instead of manipulating a single stereo mix, in addition to it we will in fact use...