Most importantly, once in the mastering process, problems start to stand out about the mix, which good mastering engineers identify and can request changes. This is an extra set of ears on your musical “team” and help improve the end product in more ways than their direct job. “Send your tracks off, pay $40-100 per song, and hope for the best”īut three conversations shared a common theme that pointed me in an unexpected direction: (from left to right) Emily Lazar, Daddy Kev, CRNKNĮmily Lazar ( Grammy-winning mastering engineer, has worked on 2000+ albums): She shared that the best mastering relationships are a back and forth, where there is a conversation happening that makes the music better. Many people repeated the conventional wisdom: While at Ableton Loop, I sat down with many experts in the field, including high-end mastering engineers, producers, and label heads. I went in to the event with a plan: getting the skinny on the dark art known as mastering. Well, who – and what – exactly do they do? Luckily, I was headed to LA for Ableton Loop – an annual music maker summit that has a range of impressive master classes with world experts.
One thing we all know is that music creators are supposed to master our music and it’s best to send that job off to the experts. We send our music off, something magical happens, and it comes back better? Mastering has been a bit of dark art for most music producers. Would I do it? Would someone else do it? What about new services, like LANDR? After testing all these options and talking to a lot of industry experts, the final results surprised me – and could save you some serious time and money. Once the songs were finished and mixing had begun, the question of mastering came up.
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This past year, I got the creative bug and was inspired to create a full original album after a long break from production.
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