Mastering is the last thing that happens to your song once it’s recorded and mixed. If you’re interested in what it even means to master a song, see our post – Mastering a Song – What Does It Mean?
In a nutshell, once you’ve mixed your song down to a single audio file, you’ll want to make sure it’s optimized for whatever system it will ultimately be played on. It will need to be balanced across the EQ spectrum, and sound good whether someone is listening on a car stereo, or on headphones through a mobile device.
If you can afford to have an actual mastering engineer do the mastering on your songs, you should really try to do that. But not everyone has the time or money to pay for that. So what then? Well, here are some tips for you from iZotope on doing your own mastering
Read more here: https://www.izotope.com/en/blog/mastering/10-tips-for-mastering-if-you-are-not-a-mastering-engineer.html
Tips for Mixing the Low End
Imperfect rooms, monitoring and lack of experience are some of the factors that affect mixing the low end. Here are some concrete tips and tricks and tools that we can use to accrue experience in managing low end.
One tip is to listen for frequency masking which occurs when two instruments are fighting for the same frequency space. You can detect this by placing the Neutron’s equalizer module across your bass elements, turn on the masking feature, and assign the elements in question to monitor each other.
Read more about this here: https://www.izotope.com/en/blog/mixing/7-tips-for-mixing-the-low-end.html
Step-Time Sequencing In Logic Pro X
Besides being the backbone of electronic-music production Step-time sequencing is a great way to create exciting keyboard lines. Mark Cousins runs us through the steps here is how.
Proven and tested the step sequencer is an important part of electronic music, from the 1970’s up to date is still very popular. To explore the process we need to recreate the sound and performance of a TB-303. Originally designed as a budget combination of step sequencer and synthesizer.
Being able to replicate this takes more than a few tweaks from your basic preset. This type only uses a single oscillator.
Read more here: http://www.musictech.net/2018/03/step-time-sequencing-logic-pro/
It Takes Two: Double-Miking Approaches For Drums & Other Instruments
If you re one of those who tried experimenting with double-miking a musical instrument, then you are up for a treat. The key to doing this trick is learning how to properly do it, and when you do the possibilities are endless. A whole new palette of tonal colors along with ease of control. Work with it on limited EQ capability and you will be surprised at the things you are able to do. Because finding that sweet spot using a single mic just might not be enough besides it can act as a fail-safe when one microphone gets knocked out.
Read more here: https://www.prosoundweb.com/channels/live-sound/it_takes_two_double-miking_approaches_for_drums_other_instruments/#
5 Pro Tips For Audio And MIDI Routing In Cubase
One of the most popular digital audio workstation today, Cubase with its pristine sound quality, advanced handling and a wide range of tools available is actually capable of some cool tricks that you might have overlooked. Hollin Jones of Ask Audio gives us a few tricks to take full control of your signal flow.
Quick Audio Channel Select – using the toolbar give you instant access to your audio’s input and output routings. From this, you can choose your settings by clicking on the Show Output Chain button -this is the one with several arrows on it and it runs through Cubase.
Read more here: https://ask.audio/articles/5-pro-tips-for-audio-and-midi-routing-in-cubase