Mastering the finished song

After exporting our song, it's time to master it.…Mastering is the last stage in our production.…It's where we'll glue everything together and bring the volume to a commercial level.…I opened the New Live Set by going to File, choosing New Live Set.…I'm going to switch over to the Arrangement view because this is where we're going to master.…Let's import our song from the desktop.…I'm just going to drag it.…We can delete the other tracks because we're only going to work with one audio track.…

Let's set the loop brackets around it.…Now it's time to drop effects directly on the audio track or on the master track;…it doesn't really matter.…Common mastering effects are EQ, Saturator, Compressor, Dynamic Tube, Multiband…Dynamics, and Limiter--not necessarily in that order. Mix and match different…combination of effects to come up with your mastering signal chain.…A lot of people send the songs to be mastered to professional mastering engineers.…

You need a lot of experience and the right gear to really come up with a…