Mastering Made Simple

In this lesson Andy gives us a basic overview of Mastering. In professional studios they have some extra tricks and tools that are applied at the mastering stage, but for this course we'll be focussing on maximising the level of the overall song.

Key points

• The Compressor gently squashes down the peaks of the audio, and then brings the whole level up to compensate for this
• The Limiter is like a very aggressive Compressor - when you set a level for it, it won't let any sound go higher than that level