Electronic Musician

Mastering: online, attended, AI, or DIY?

efore getting into the nitty gritty of working with plugins, considering maximum output levels and the difference between average and peak volumes, let’s remind ourselves what mastering is designed to do. On an album, mastering is the final stage where the ‘program’ of musical material is made coherent, with an evenness of tone, dynamics, mix space and width applied to each track,

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Electronic Musician

Electronic Musician1 min read
DABROmusic Midtempo Samples $25
Chunks of rap, rock, and electro get thrown in the blender, mixed with phat drums, weighty basslines, and incessant bleep and bloops, alongside heart-starting FX loops, risers and every other drop-filling sonic you'll need to glue it together. Fans o
Electronic Musician3 min read
Design Your Perfect System
The appeal of modular synthesis is, above all else, its flexibility. By allowing users to mix and match the core building blocks of electronic instruments at will, a modular setup can be pretty much anything. Want to recreate the signal path of a cla
Electronic Musician1 min read
Comparing FL Studio editions
Like most DAWs, there are different levels that you can buy into when it comes to FL Studio. The headlines are that the cheapest Fruity edition delivers a lot of instruments and effects – some 84 of the total of 111 – but has no audio recording. It's

Related Books & Audiobooks