Mastering for Reggae Music is the process of preparing a Reggae track or album for distribution while maintaining a high fidelity, clear and present transients, and a clear yet powerful low-frequency range. Mastering for Reggae music includes creating a transparent and clean, yet cohesive sound.
Expanding your samples of drums and loops can only serve to help your productions and provide your fans with a unique listening experience.
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Panning affects your mix by placing the energy of a signal within a different point or points in the 90 and 180-degree stereo field. By using various forms of processing, a signal’s stereo field location can be altered, which can increase mix clarity, or evoke a more creative mix.
Mastering for Funk Music is the process of preparing a funk album for distribution by using various forms of acutely implemented audio processing. When a Funk mix has been mastered, it sounds impressive, dynamic, and balanced enough to playback on any consumer-grade equipment.
Drum bus compression is no doubt a popular and highly useful form of compression - one that can be used to easily create a cohesive sound amongst the percussive instrumentation in a song.
Bus Compression is the act of using a compressor on the master output to create a uniform sound for the entirety of a mix or master. Bus compression is often used in mixes and masters to create a cohesive and overarching timbre for the recording.
Monitor controllers are an important part of any growing or established studio.
Automated Mastering Software is in short, a computer program that uses algorithms to create a master of your music, ready for distribution. Automated Mastering Software is the foundation of any automated mastering service, and can be accessed online, usually for a small fee or a monthly subscription charge.
Mastering for Gospel Music is the process of preparing a Gospel track or album for distribution with an emphasis on preserving dynamics, and the reverberation of the room in which the album was recorded. The processing used when mastering Gospel music depends heavily on the sub-genre.
Stereo imaging isn’t thought about too terribly often, but it is an incredibly important aspect of creating modern music.
Creating a professional recording in a home studio comes down to setting up the room correctly, using the best introductory equipment, recording your signal to the proper level (at least -18dB), and recording your instruments in the correct order.
Mastering for Bluegrass music is all about balancing an impressive sound that plays back well on all listening devices, with maintaining a natural sound. When mastering for bluegrass music it’s imperative that certain processing is used to maintain a natural sound indicative of other bluegrass masters.
Saturation, when talking about audio, is a combination of compression and distortion which is created from overloading the physical components of an electrical system. Distortion, when talking about audio, is the altering of the shape of a waveform which creates a different tonality from that of the original waveform.
Some free plugins are just as good if not better than their expensive counterparts, so it never hurts to try them out for yourself and see.
