Mixing Vs Mastering

Mixing Vs Mastering
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#AudioEngineer #Producer #MakingMusic #Mixing #Mastering #MusicProduction #Songwriting

[randonnelson]

Eh I don't think so. For example if you brighten it up on the master and one element becomes to bright, go back to the mix and adjust it, don't try to fix it in the master.

[Sixorwave]

Please don’t overthink this ESPECIALLY if you make EDM. These mixing rules confused the fck out of me for the longest time until I stopped caring about these rules and started mixing with feeling. Obviously it’s important to understand these rules, but please don’t confine yourself to them.

[thisisgoga]

man do what ever works for you you guys just make people overthink sh!T

[MichaelJohn-xlzn]

quickest way to master, open a lufs meter & maximus turn up the gain knob until it hits your target of lufs add 3.0 saturation, pull the ceiling down on maximus to trim off the peaks and ur done. remember mastering is just loudness and colouring ur sound so if you aren't happy with the project Mastering won't help.

[mr-lamis]

I agree with the last part. "try to not master in mixing but in exported file audio". In my experience, i agree!
But the most important is: "Try to master in mixing "

[PNEUMANA]

What I’m learning is that some of these mastering bus plugins use up a lot of cpu, so the bounce lets you make use of over sampling on the master bus depending on how powerful your system is.

[themoseseze]

LOL, so when your client has 3 reviews after mastering???

[highsoundsprod]

Hmm... I dont know..
But I undurstand Your point

[Cimerforthesound]

first time I will disagree with you mate,

because for so many reason you can't tell what is good or not on a session, of course it's "better" to export, but not nowadays with computers who will run project with hundreds of tracks with no problem

Just a question of preferences for me I guess ;)

But the advice for the fresh ears is 100 legit tho ;)

[carlos-pratspratsonthebeat]

Is about the Result, If you know what you are doing there you go . Is posible to do it

[charlespookman]

Yeah...I always focus on a static mix before I ever even think about mastering

[itswhzly]

If you make edm/heavy bass music we all know you mix and master as you go, cause the master usually just has a clipper. Every genre is different :)

[officialoffair]

Well I made a masterchain which i always use while mixing somehow 😅

[SoulAzzahidi]

Of course you can. What if you need to adjust something in the mix while you’re mastering.

[marsospeaks]

Facts mix into a limiter or soft clipper and then bounce the drum stems, vocal stems, and whatever other stems as a wav so that you still have some control in your master session!

[naelbeno]

A good mix doesn‘t Need much Mastering, Maybe a bit width and clipping for Loudness!

[tasenova]

I say you make groundrules for yourself. if it's an album, then be organized. get the template organized in the way you work fast, lay the foundation. turn up the daw master volume and get the headroom you need. if you know how to get those peaks down, and keep percieved dynamics, then you will barely have to master. just figure out your targets. aim and fire.

[itzBlaqxhine]

I have done both before 😂😂 afrobeats is crazy 😂😂

[calvingudu]

This is not true for all people. You have to approach this music thing as making music, not some science. I have always been disappointed with other people mastering my work. So I am one of those who think about what a track sounds like and consider if it captures the audience. In conclusion, I honk that mastering for most cases is way over rated and kept as some sort of mystery. So the answer is YES you can mix and master your own work. Just get the right tools and don’t over think it and complicate it.

[etcot]

Very good advices, I don’t think you need too long of a break, just do another one forget about the previous one, listen to other music, listen to what’s new, what you like..