Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Mastering the Craft


Although recording software these days allows for musicians to do a great deal of from home and virtually for free, there is one task that almost always needs to be outsourced. Mastering is an extremely important process to getting the best sound you can out of any recording, home or studio. Because mastering specialists don’t always/often have much communication with the musicians directly, it can be an expensive and uncertain process since the painstaking work is done from afar.

To the excitement of many, an online mastering service called LANDR has recently become available. The downside is that it’s not that great. The main problem is that it allows for very little control over the end result. This is because it master recordings based on a general algorithm that simply doesn’t work for most genres of music. The upside is that it is much cheaper than using a professional engineer and potential user can try it for free so you can hear for yourself whether or not it is worth your while. 

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