What You Get with Mastering In Logic
This page will give you an idea of the topics and tutorials Master In Logic will be covering. This is an overview of just some of the key areas you will be studying with us. Each video will be broken into sections and will last between 5 and 10 minutes, bite size videos to ensure learning easy to digest and quick to develop.
If you have any questions you would like answered please feel free to email me at darren@masteringinlogic.com
Before You Just Jump In ….
Whatever do don’t master your own music?
Why Master at all?
Loudness War and What it means for you
- Loudness War Part 1
- Loudness War Part 2
- Loudness War Part 3
Monitoring – Ears and Room Essentials first step
Getting your Mix file ready to Master
- Master Bus Compression of your stereo mix
- How loud should it be or how much head room should I leave for mastering?
- Sample rate and bit rate
- Bouncing the stereo mix
Setting Up for Mastering
- Mastering in Logic Pro
- Tools of mastering
- Mastering Chain
- Logic’s Master Output Presets,
- Using Logic’s Presets to create your own Vanilla Template
- Adding to the template based on the music you are mastering
What’s your style of music you’re going to master?
Analyzing Your Master
Using the Multi-Meter to help make your mastering decisions
Checking for phase
Equalisation
- Which EQ should I use?
- Linear Phase EQ vs Normal EQ
- Logic’s Match EQ
- What should stand out and what should be pushed back?
- Broad Band Mastering (Give the Frequency Range some IKEA curves)
- Narrow Band Mastering (Become a Plastic Surgeon and make me beautiful!)
- Dealing with bass and kick
- How to deal with loud bass notes
- How to deal with a master that lacks bass
- Getting a fat warm bass
- How to deal with too much top end
- I always seem to end up in the MUD! (ways to make it punchy)
- How much AIR can you get?
- When is too much too much?
- How to bring out the vocals during the mastering phase
- Checking the levels after adding or attenuating EQ
Compression
What will a compressor do to your master
Single Band Compression
- Peak vs RMS
- Compression Techniques
- How Much should I compress?
Multi-band compression
- Dealing with the overall mix
- Dealing with individual frequency bands
- How to deal with a muddy mix
- How to warm the mix up with MC Compression
- How to create a warm smooth bass
- How to deal with loud bass notes
- How to make the Kick drum pop
Exciters and Enhancers
My Mix needs Some Width
How to give your mix some well needed width
Middle and Side Mastering Tools
Did you say add some DELAY to the Master???
Did you say I can add REVERB to the final Master???
EQing the reverb or delay
Take It To The Limit
Your limiter won’t make it loud (it’s the sum of all parts)
Why Limit and what will it do to your master
Typical ways to limit your master
Loudness Master Class
Master Of The House
Preparing for the final bounce Trim the waveform add any automation
Dither and why you need it
Bouncing to 24bit or 16bit
Bouncing an mp3 for online distribution
Creating Your Red Book Master with Waveburner
Format bouncing for TV, Music Library, Record Labels (Demo) or your Internet Fans!
Pro tricks and 3rd Party Plugs
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