Mastering - concepts

Mastering Your Track: A Step-by-Step Guide

Hey, guys! In this last step, we're going to talk about the mastering of a song.

Now, I'm not talking about the professional mastering that you send tracks off for when they're getting ready to be released by an artist. I'm talking about the mastering that I do to my own tracks to make them sound really polished and presentable.

Why Mastering is Important

An important thing to remember is:

• Once you've sent a track,
• Once you've emailed it to people,
• You never know where it's going to be played or who it's going to be played to.

So, it's really important that your tracks, whatever stage they're in, sound:

• Polished
• Professional
• Big-sounding
• Powerful

Everything needs to sound good, and following these few steps can really help.

My Journey with Mastering

For many years, I neglected this myself. I just had one or two little things that didn't really do anything apart from make my tracks sound loud, but they didn't really help the sonics.

The Steps to Effective Mastering

What I'll do now is walk you through the steps that I've added over the years:

• The various parts that I do
• The way I sum it all together
• How the track becomes glued together

By following these techniques, your track will start sounding really, really special on top of all that good work you've done.

So let's get started!