After a musician or producer has created his/her music there can sometimes be a sensation that something is not quite finished.
Despite the hours mixing and tweaking and adjusting the sound to make the best possible mix the producer can sometimes feel the music does not quite sound as good as the best commercially released tracks.
A significant part of this is in the mastering.
Many musicians and producers are working very hard with their music there is no doubting this but in some instances the monitoring environment or monitor speakers (Bookshelf sized studio monitors) are not capable of resolving the details required to make the music truly shine.
A small loudspeaker has some design limitations, it will not be able to reproduce the deepest bass frequencies and the sound may suffer from undue coloration because of the physical size and construction of the loudspeaker.
The quality of the drive units in the box will have been chosen for a price and not the ultimate in quality.
For the final corrections to be made the music must be heard on what is known as a high resolution monitoring system.
These are often more costly and larger in size but have the advantage of presenting new details in the music and allowing the experienced engineer to bring the best out of the music during a stage called mastering.
Mastering is often seen as a mysterious stage in the music production process but in fact it is fairly technical.
The goal of the mastering process in audio production is to ensure that the music is going to translate as well as possible to all the sound systems that it will be played on.
This takes a keen and experienced engineer as any decisions made at this stage will make it onto the final releases so you need to be able to trust your online mastering services.
There are many such online mastering studios to choose from however it would be wise to find out some background of the engineer in terms of the music and recording he may have done in his past career.
In addition make sure you choose a studio with some fine equipment, you should try and see if there are pictures of such equipment on the website and remember if the mastering engineer does not have significantly better monitoring speakers than the musician or producer used it will be difficult for him to realistically improve the music.
In many case the best speaker for master have 3 drivers, a bass, midrange and a tweeter, these systems allow the clarity and accuracy that a mastering engineer needs to hear deeply into the music and effect the best changes and tweaks for the music mix he is working on.
So do look around and choose your mastering studio and engineer with care.
Despite the hours mixing and tweaking and adjusting the sound to make the best possible mix the producer can sometimes feel the music does not quite sound as good as the best commercially released tracks.
A significant part of this is in the mastering.
Many musicians and producers are working very hard with their music there is no doubting this but in some instances the monitoring environment or monitor speakers (Bookshelf sized studio monitors) are not capable of resolving the details required to make the music truly shine.
A small loudspeaker has some design limitations, it will not be able to reproduce the deepest bass frequencies and the sound may suffer from undue coloration because of the physical size and construction of the loudspeaker.
The quality of the drive units in the box will have been chosen for a price and not the ultimate in quality.
For the final corrections to be made the music must be heard on what is known as a high resolution monitoring system.
These are often more costly and larger in size but have the advantage of presenting new details in the music and allowing the experienced engineer to bring the best out of the music during a stage called mastering.
Mastering is often seen as a mysterious stage in the music production process but in fact it is fairly technical.
The goal of the mastering process in audio production is to ensure that the music is going to translate as well as possible to all the sound systems that it will be played on.
This takes a keen and experienced engineer as any decisions made at this stage will make it onto the final releases so you need to be able to trust your online mastering services.
There are many such online mastering studios to choose from however it would be wise to find out some background of the engineer in terms of the music and recording he may have done in his past career.
In addition make sure you choose a studio with some fine equipment, you should try and see if there are pictures of such equipment on the website and remember if the mastering engineer does not have significantly better monitoring speakers than the musician or producer used it will be difficult for him to realistically improve the music.
In many case the best speaker for master have 3 drivers, a bass, midrange and a tweeter, these systems allow the clarity and accuracy that a mastering engineer needs to hear deeply into the music and effect the best changes and tweaks for the music mix he is working on.
So do look around and choose your mastering studio and engineer with care.
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