Mastering, the black art of the audio process...

There are so many tools at your disposal when it comes time to put the finishing touches on a record. Do you know what they are? More importantly, how well can you use them?

Fab discusses the 8 tools essential to the art of mastering and shows you exactly how best to use them. This video is full of examples that are applied to a wide range of musical styles. You’ll gain a deeper level of understanding as he explains the theory and reasoning behind the application of every tool.

Tools covered:

• The Studio
• Metering
• Compression (and parallel compression)
• Multiband Compression
• De-esser
• Equalizers
• Peak Limiter
• Sum & Difference (aka Mid/Side)

Mastery of these tools allows you to enhance sonic characteristics while correcting mix balance issues, giving your recordings power, clarity, and focus.

Here’s just a taste of what you’ll learn:

• Why the room is the most important tool in mastering, why your rooms probably sucks, and how to deal with a less than ideal room
• The importance of great metering and why you NEED it
• Understand and optimize a song’s dynamic range
• How to make masters sound natural and maintain their artistic integrity
• The different roles compression play in mastering
• How to use parallel compression to add density to the track
• The role of EQs in mastering and why many mastering engineers use two EQs
• The purpose of the peak limiter