What Is Mastering?Mastering is the final step in the music production process. At this point the record has been composed, arranged and mixed, the final step is to polish up the mix, add fade ins/outs, adjust the frequency balance &... read more

Compression is one of the most important tools for mixing and mastering engineers. You can use it for many different purposes. For example, to fatten drums, to level vocals and so on. In some situations heavy compression is needed and... read more

When mixing vocals there is a lot of tools you can use. In this article I'm going to talk about: EQ, De-Essing, Compression, Harmonic Enhancement, Reverb & Delay. Step 1: EQ & De-Essing First of all you're going to want... read more