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Working with general mastering strategies - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools
Working with general mastering strategies
From a sonic standpoint, mastering engineers will use a variety of tools to give a mix that finished commercial sound. But for the most part, the same tools used in mixing are also used during the mastering stage. The major difference between processing tracks during mixing and processing a track during mastering is that generally you're working with only the finished stereo mix during the mastering stage. So any processing you did is applied to everything. So if I want to prepare to master in Pro Tools, specifically this track, what I can do is create a New Session and I'm creating a Blank Session. I'm just going to make sure it's 24 Bit 44.1. The main thing is I want to match the bounce session that I just created. So the file that I exported from the Last stage of the bouncing was 24 Bit 44.1k, and I'll just choose Stereo Mix in the I/O Settings to get it back to a default. Just go ahead and save it in the Exercise Files as Take Me Down - Master. So now I have a blank session. I'm…
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Understanding mastering4m 15s
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Bouncing the mix7m 9s
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Working with general mastering strategies8m 50s
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Using limiting and compression to maximize track level10m 57s
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Working with multi-band compression7m 9s
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Understanding sample rate, bit depth, file formats, and dither7m 30s
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Using Pro Tools for CD track sequencing10m 11s
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Compressing audio for the web9m 41s
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