When mastering your final mixes in your DAW it becomes very helpful to be able to reference some already mastered, professional tracks in order to know where your songs sound link in comparison. I like to be able to reference tracks right in my session so I’m hearing everything coming through the same D/A converters. This video explains my work-flow. Enjoy!
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Great video. Always good to learn new ways of using bussing and auxes. I guess the next logical tutorial would be mastering. Obviously not at the level of a professional mastering engineer, but how a home studio guy can do some basic mastering at home to make a more polished, “finished” product. Thanks!
Indeed…I’ll get crackin on one of those in the near future!
A good practice is to take 12 separate professionally recorded songs and build yourself a compilation. Find music of different genres, and attempt to not only have the overall level’s similar, but also the overall tone. Even if the songs are “mastered” there will still be a variety of level differences from song to song. If you can get something cohesive it will help you in the long run. When mastering, not only are you worrying about the single song, but you are also worrying about the overall feel of the album/levels etc.
That’s a my 2 cents.
Great points overall Shane.