So you have crappy speakers and a crappy interface and your speakers are sat on your desk with no isolation and your desk is in a corner of the room or right up against a wall. We can apply the same scenario to those of...
Keep your bounces at the same sample rate and bit depth as your session. Dithering and sample rate conversion can alter the integrity of your audio so leave it to the mastering engineer to make those decisions and conversions as (s)he should have superior,...
Analogue mastering means your tunes (which may have lived their entire digital lives within your computer) will be played through a selection of classic, industry-standard and dedicated mastering outboard equipment – breathing real-world life into those ones and zeros of digital data. Mastering is the final...
Now that so many musicians are able to record entire albums in their own homes or studios, mastering is becoming an increasingly important stage in the music making process. Analogue mastering means your tunes (which may have lived their entire digital lives within your computer) will...