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Posted by Nell on May-16-2002 20:56:

Mastering a track

what is the purpose of masterign a track? what does it actually do? is there any reccomended software out there. i know hardware is prefrable but i heards its too expensive

Posted by robstar on May-16-2002 21:07:

Don�t know if anyone agrees with me on this but here�s what I think:
Mastering makes the difference between a Amature and a Pro track.
Mastering is really imporant cuz it will make ur mix sound so much better.

Try T-RackS 24. It�s software.

LateR:z..z

Posted by attacc on May-17-2002 01:35:

Mastering basicly makes the track a lot louder..

Posted by El~ZaPo on May-17-2002 01:47:

By mastering, do you mean normalizing the track? As in making the volume as high as it can be without going over the limit where it starts to sound bad?

Posted by attacc on May-17-2002 01:56:

normalization is something you do after you have mastered you track. Mastering is using compressors,limiters, eqs and soundenhancers.

Posted by DJ Chrono on May-17-2002 02:00:

mastering has a few purposes.

1) to increase the overall volume of a track with out distorting.

2) To emphasize, clean up, and make certain sounds sound better in a song, done by eqing different frequencies.

3) To widen up a song, meaning to spread the stereo range farther (eg more distinction between left and right channels).

And of course there's a few more, these are just the most common.

Posted by El~ZaPo on May-17-2002 02:23:

Okay, thanks for clearing that up for me.

Posted by Pjotr G on May-17-2002 08:09:

I agree that it can make the difference between amateur and pro (of course if you master a really stupid bad track really well it isn't very pro either). You make sure your mix sounds nice on all kinds of stereos.....
strictly speaking, mastering is anything that you apply to the entire master mix (usually compression, EQ, enhancers, exciters n stuff)

Posted by Trancevision on May-17-2002 13:03:

Hi !

More about mastering software is HERE

Trancevision

Posted by Joi Lamusic on May-18-2002 03:16:

How to master Frtuity tracks? Or what software I can use with Fruity?

Posted by robstar on May-18-2002 03:32:

U don�t master I track in Fruity. Well u could but I do not recomend it.

U can master ur track with:

T-RackS 24
Wavlab 4.0
CoolEdit pro 2.0
Or
SoundForge 6.0

I`m sure there�s lots of other programs for mastering but those are the once I`ve tried and they are pretty good.

Posted by Pjotr G on May-18-2002 09:08:

that emans you should export you fruity song as a wav file (as you probably would anyway?) and then work with that wav

Posted by DJ Chrono on May-19-2002 04:29:

I recommend the Waves Native Gold Bundle, there are some great mastering plug ins here that you just load up into Soundforge or Cool Edit.

Posted by Joi Lamusic on May-19-2002 12:14:

I have Cool Edit Pro 2.0. Maybe I should try that out... Should I export those Fruity songs tracks indidiually (like basseline, synthline...one by one)?

Waves Native Gold Bundle? so that is also good?
T-RackS 24 ?
Wavlab 4.0
SoundForge 6.0 Are those plugins to use in Cool edit?

Posted by Collab on May-22-2002 09:39: