Demo Tape Mastering Tips

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Hey! My name is Jerimae Yoder and I am with Expert Village. The last thing you want to do in mixing in getting to your final product is mastering. Mastering is a whole different deal. There are guys that spend their whole lives learning how to a be good sound masterer. Basically what mastering is cutting out different frequencies and hiding other frequencies to make their sound as crisp, as clear and unmuddy as possibly can happen. There are guys that do this for a living and get paid $1500 a day just to sit in a studio and listen to music and listen to these sounds that make them the best they possibly can. There are hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment to get the sound they want from the professional recordings. If you would go down to Nashville, you would see some crazy stuff like Hank Williams mastering joints and places like that. But if you are going to do your own mastering, there are some really cool things; T-Rack has its own mastering suite that is pretty killer and you can totally tell the difference when you apply that mastering affect to when it is not own. It just adds some right frequencies, it takes out some other frequencies to make your sound, sound the best that it possibly can. On the rolling tape 90, there is actually a mastering tool kit that you can use to get a better sound of quality out of your tracks. With the roll what you have to do actually is bounce everything down to two master tracks, the right and the left and then you apply the master affect over top of those and again in the mastering affects, you can go in and tweak a lot of different things so you want to get to know your hardware, your software before you even attempt to use a mastering tool kit in either of these things, hardware or software.

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