Music Mastering Basics | DIY Mastering Requirements | Audio Mastering Engineers
Channel: EV Sonic Lab
Date: 2021-08-12

Table Of Contents:
1- Introduction (00:00) 
2- What Is mastering? (4:03) 
3- What is a mastering engineer required to have in order to provide this service? (08:04) 
4- Realistic Mastering Results (08:56) 
5- Grading Mix Quality Results (10:28) 
    A = Great, Excellent
    B = Good, Fine
    C = Mediocre, Average
    D = Substandard, Poor
    E = Bad,  Awful
6- The Three Main Conditions For DIY Mastering (14:53) 
     6.1- A Digital Audio Workstation (15:53) 
     6.2- Fairly ‘accurate’ speaker monitors (16:53) 
     6.3- Acoustically conditioned room (18:12) 
7- Conclusion (20:56)

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When Did Music Mastering Become Important? 

Understanding Mastering 

A very basic introduction to audio mastering taken from an old Wikipedia article reference link to demystify this often misunderstood subject and to help identify the real from faux mastering.

You may read the original article at: https://musicmasteringonline.com/understanding-mastering/ 

The author is a mixing-mastering (mixtering) engineer with over 37 years of audio experience, working for major label artists as well as aspiring musicians from all over the world. 

His work has produced, among many other accolades, a couple of Grammy nominations for his clients. 

We would also like to thank all the people who have either collaborated with music, images, or participated in the making of this video. 

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Together we are making sure that the meaning of audio mastering is not being manipulated and plundered by a few unscrupulous and deceptive online companies. 

Some may ask, what on earth is "harmonic balance"?  Nothing, it's just another way to describe frequency balance.  Keep in mind that harmonics are either even or odd multiples of the fundamental frequency, so in the context of music, this translates to a GREAT deal of frequencies bouncing all over the spectrum.  

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