That's mixing. You use near fields to mix everything how you want it. You won't find too many mastering studios with near fields in them though.

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Mastering studios do not use nearfields because of their inability to reproduce some of the lowest frequencies in a song. One of the great mastering engineers Bob Katz uses custom studio speakers with custom amplifiers and a subwoofer. A subwoofer is the only way to check on those low frequencies that would appear in a typical dance club. In other words, if you want to master your own material you can try, but it's better off if the proffesional does it for you.
They are not called mastering enginneers for nothing. It takes a master to give your song a final polish and produce a masterpiece.

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Originally posted by Scottaculous That may be true for more commerical music but I'm assuming BTG is making a dance track. A dance track to be played in a professional club environment. With lower quality speakers the bass is always too low and the prodcuer tends to over compensate for it and make a overly boomy track.

who have talked about low quality speakers???
no one..... vizay said that instead of using flat freq. monitors, they use HIGH quality speakers instead since regular listerners doesn't use studio monitors anyway.. they use normal speakers...

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dbl said exactly what I was about to say....I mean isn't it pretty obvious that you shouldn't use low-quality speakers when producing and mastering?

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Originally posted by davedresden i suggest getting the gabriel & dresden prog-a-minute. in 3 easy steps you too could change the face of dance music. batteries not included. - dave