From the course: Audio Mastering Techniques
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Mastering professionally versus doing it yourself
From the course: Audio Mastering Techniques
Mastering professionally versus doing it yourself
It's interesting to note that just about all of the major record labels and most of the larger Indie labels still choose to master all of their projects with a major mastering house, even though extensive mastering resources are widely available to just about any engineer. Since you are watching this course to learn many of the tricks of pro-mastering engineers, let's look at some of the differences between the product that you might get from a mastering pro and what you might get from mastering at home. If we really break it down, a mastering pro usually has three things over what you do at home. A real pro-mastering house has many things available that you probably won't find in the simple home or small studio digital audio workstation room, such as high-end analog to digital, and digital to analog converters, a great sounding listening environment, and exceptional monitoring system. The monitoring system of these facilities some times cost far more than many entire home studios…
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