Dave Moulton's Mastering Articles

Tips 'n' Tricks for Mastering
Dave offers tons of helpful hints for mastering your mixes, as well as why you really shouldn't. Check out this article for plenty of real-world advice on how to go about mastering your own mixes if you really, really have to.

Taming Wild Mastering Levels
Where has all the dynamic range gone? It seems that the "who's louder" game has gotten a bit out of hand, made evident by the over-compressed recordings of today. To help us make some more educated decisions, Dave offers some practical information on loudness, listening environments and the radio.

Stereo Reconsidered: Mid/Side Thinking
Many of us are used to thinking of our recordings in terms of left and right channel. However listening to and processing recordings as mid/side (center and edges of the stereo field) leads us to many interesting possibilities. Dave talks about "listening in side" and how it can reveal mixing tricks and flaws, and about the basics of applying mid/side processing in a mastering setting.

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