Anyone here experienced with mastering?

[Barnelby]

Yeah, I've always understood that mastering was more of a subtle aftertouch.


grs I'm not sure what you meant when you said this:

Using the eq and limiter to keep the mix as loud and roughly eq'ed as target.
Then if the main bus eq has a huge boost in the 500hz range then in my mix I need to target instruments that would benefit with a boost in 500hz and give it to them and then take it out of the main bus.

K hang on....are you saying that once I put an EQ on the main bus and discover that it sounds good with a 500hz boost, that I then need to go back and make the boost happen within the actual instruments' EQ? I think that is right.

Speaking of which.

When I am EQing and compressing multiple tracks....is there ever a time when I should group together several tracks that might have the same sonic qualities...say some high hat sounds and a really high lead or pad....and bus them to a single channel and apply compression/EQ on that channel...or should EVERY channel have its own individual EQ and compression?

thanks!