Am I Mastering Loud Enough? How to Hit the Perfect LUFS Every Time
Mastering isn’t just about making your track louder; it’s about knowing how loud is loud enough. Push it too far, and you lose punch, clarity, and trust with listeners (and platforms like Spotify w...
The Ultimate Guide to Mastering with FASTER MASTER
Most mastering tools either feel too complicated, take forever to dial in, or give you generic, underwhelming results. Enter FASTER MASTER, our new plugin developed in collaboration with David Guet...
Automatic Phase Fixing in Mixing
Ever layered a kick and sub only to find your low-end mysteriously vanish? Or maybe your stacked snares sound weaker together than they did solo? You’re likely battling phase issues, a sneaky mix k...
How to Use Mid/Side EQ to Elevate Your Masters
Mid/side EQ is one of the most powerful—and misunderstood—tools in a mastering engineer’s arsenal. Used right, it can widen your mix, bring vocals to the front, tighten the low end, and reveal soni...
When I was learning how to master music, I said yes to every project I could get my hands on. Some of the mixes were great. Most weren’t. But that didn’t matter. I just needed the practice. I’d sit...
3 Awful Width Mistakes and How To Avoid Them
Nailing the stereo width in your mix can be the difference between a flat, lifeless track and one that explodes from the speakers with depth and clarity. But get it wrong, and your mix could fall a...
