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Posted by Veldrid on Jul-23-2002 01:07:

Question on Mastering a Track

Hey guys, I am finishing up a remix of track and I am nearing the point when i need to master the track. I was just wondering how this is done. Is it just a matter of raising and lowering the levels in Reason or do I need to take the track into a different program and work from there. Any tips would be much appreciated.

Posted by Bondor on Jul-23-2002 01:51:

if you just save it right from reason to final version it should be really really quiet or the audio cliping light should always be on. 1. save a version of the song that never audio clips but if you rais the volume any more it will

2. open it in a audio mastering progrom (cooledit, um other stiff)

3. "master it" - basicly rease the volume and some other stuff i really dont know cus ive never done it

4. save final project

Posted by DJ Chrono on Jul-23-2002 03:15:

1. Export from Reason with safe volume levels.

2. Import in wav editor like Sound Forge.

3. Adjust the EQ of the track to make it sound better.. generally this involves boosting the low and hi end frequencies. or whatever sounds good.

4. Apply compression if your track seems too quite in comparison to other tracks. I recommend the Waves Gold Bundle which contains the "RCL" compressor, as a filter. Make sure not to overdo it, because it could flatten the sound.

5. Export as wav.

6. You're done mastering.

Posted by BeatFreak on Jul-23-2002 03:26:

Check the tutorials at www.reasonstation.net

Posted by Veldrid on Jul-23-2002 04:32:

Thx for the help guys

Posted by MekTek on Jul-23-2002 17:11:

a lil tip..when mastering, after you compress to bring up the low volumes, u need to slap a limiter on there to control peaks n round out the sound. with limiters, if u see that one limiter is squashing the sound too much, try using multiple chained limiters instead. set each so each will limit a little rather than one doing all the limiting..this allows for very crisp and transparent limiting, when done right, and allows you to get it ready to feed into something like PSP's vintage warmer for some analog warmth....a lil trick of the trade. hope that helps.