Basic Mastering Workflow part 1

Mastering is a critical audio production skill to prepare your music for release and distribution.

Learning the basic concepts of mastering is also a great way to develop your production skills and critical listening ability without all the added chaos of a full mix session.

In this two part tutorial, ADSR Instructor Stephen Ellestad shows you a basic workflow used by many mastering engineer.

In this first of two videos Stephen discusses the mastering process while walking through the steps he took to correct some basic problem areas in the song.

[roygertel]

This is your recommended chain ? :
First Maximizer than Dynamics, Imager & finally Limiter ?
How much is this a "hard rule", the chain order & what will actually happen if U put it in a different order ?

[mindstemmastering]

Surprised at how much widening you applied to the low mids...Seems a bit much and takes away center focus and power from the middle. Usually not a good idea.

[TheWaveFiles]

thank you very much,
why is mastering so obscure when it comes to explaining its process ?, always seemed like you have to be part of an x-men community .Anyway, very nice video and clear explanation.

[NemyDJ]

Wait, haven't I seen this video before? :o