Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Mix And Mastering Service Elements

By Stacey Massey


Mixing and mastering are two of the most essential components necessary for music production. Musicians who are working within their very own home studios, recording their own sounds often take care of these by themselves in order to create excellent tracks. Nonetheless, there are musicians preferring getting professional mix and mastering service as well.

To mix and master sounds are two very different things. People often make the mistake of interchanging one for the other or refer to the two terms with the same meaning. Mixing is the process by which producers put multiple audio layers together in order to make final tracks. It could also be a process by which existing tracks are musically modified.

When raw sounds are recorded straight from the condenser microphones, whether these are drums, piano or guitar, they would actually sound rather undynamic or flat. Producers usually first layer the tracks. They also change the volumes to get guitar sounds or drum beats to emerge at particular moments. Clicks or other extra noises may also be removed from clips. Such is the process of mixing.

Mastering, on the other hand, is different. It is the process where final tracks are optimized with the use of several different elements, which may range from stereo enhancement, equalization, or compression. Usually, this process will require not just technical skills from producers but also extensive knowledge on techniques and a good sense of hearing.

To master may mean bringing the sounds to life. This is the process which will bring spice in to your recorded sounds for these to sound better. You can have your drum beats sounding much more dynamic or your guitars sounding less sharp. You can also tone down your piano rhythm or have your bass frequency increased. Effects integration may be considered as well.

There are several elements involved in the process of mastering. One is compression. Although compression might be a common term, there are still a lot of people who may not be correctly using it. Compressing dynamic audios is something very common. What it does is prevent the audios from clipping. Compressing ensures that audios will not be exceeding decibel limits, thus preventing audios to come too loud.

Equalization refers to the boosting of the frequencies of sounds. It is an element that is fairly easy to understand. Normally, producers will not want recorded sounds to have very thin bass drums. So what they do is that they increase bass frequencies through equalization. EQ is what makes it possible to get the perfect sounds for the instruments.

Compression and equalization are not the only effects that you can integrate to your sound. There are many more effects to add in for tracks to come more spiced up. These will allow you to bring more out of your recorded sounds. You can consider stereo enhancements as well as the reverb effect.

A mix and mastering service mainly centers on composition, notation and instrumentation of music production subjects. Just as with composing and notating, you will need to have experience and knowledge in this field. You might already think of a track as great sounding but in reality, there can still be a lot more improvements you can add so these will be brought out to sound their best.




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