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Nell
sure thing

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Newcastle , England

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

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May-16-2002 20:56

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robstar
Excited

Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Stockholm

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.

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May-16-2002 21:07 Sweden

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attacc
Newbie in training

Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Café Del Mar

Mastering basicly makes the track a lot louder..

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May-17-2002 01:35 Norway

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El~ZaPo
W32.Trance.1999@mm

Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Hamilton, Ontario

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?

May-17-2002 01:47 Canada

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attacc
Newbie in training

Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Café Del Mar

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

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May-17-2002 01:56 Norway

DJ Chrono
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Registered: Jan 2002
Location: toronto

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.

May-17-2002 02:00 Canada

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El~ZaPo
W32.Trance.1999@mm

Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Hamilton, Ontario

Okay, thanks for clearing that up for me.

May-17-2002 02:23 Canada

Pjotr G
Mindcrawler

Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Netherlands

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)

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May-17-2002 08:09 Netherlands

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Trancevision
MINDSOUNDSCAPES

Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Germany

Hi !

More about mastering software is HERE

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May-17-2002 13:03 Germany

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Joi Lamusic
Supreme tranceaddict

Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Helsinki

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

May-18-2002 03:16 Finland

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robstar
Excited

Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Stockholm

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.