{"id":25393,"date":"2018-03-23T00:13:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T05:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewaudio.com\/?p=25393"},"modified":"2018-03-23T00:13:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T05:13:41","slug":"10-tips-for-mastering-if-youre-not-a-mastering-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.homebrewaudio.co\/wp\/2018\/03\/23\/10-tips-for-mastering-if-youre-not-a-mastering-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Tips for Mastering if You're Not a Mastering Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mastering is the last thing that happens to your song once it’s recorded and mixed. If you’re interested in what it even means to master a song, see our post –\u00a0Mastering a Song \u2013 What Does It Mean?<\/a>
\nIn a nutshell, once you’ve mixed your song down to a single audio file, you’ll want to make sure it’s optimized for whatever system it will ultimately be played on. It will need to be balanced across the EQ spectrum, and sound good whether someone is listening on a car stereo, or on headphones through a mobile device.
\nIf you can afford to have an actual mastering engineer do the mastering on your songs, you should really try to do that. But not everyone has the time or money to pay for that. So what then? Well, here are some tips for you from iZotope on doing your own mastering
\nRead more here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.izotope.com\/en\/blog\/mastering\/10-tips-for-mastering-if-you-are-not-a-mastering-engineer.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mastering is the last thing that happens to your song once it’s recorded and mixed. If you’re interested in what it even means to master a song, see our post –\u00a0Mastering a Song \u2013 What Does It Mean? 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