The crucial thing is not to aim for LOUDNESS only like INSTANT/AUTOMATIC SERVICES do, but for fidelity, quality, musicality, good balance. Feedback to Mix Engineer: Improving the mix.Editing: The very important part where all small issues, like crackles, clicks, other digital gizmos should be spotted and removed.After initial listening, the mastering engineer takes notes and decides what processing need to be applied.First and most important part of Audio Mastering is to carefully listen to the music.If you spend weeks and months recording and mixing your album, it’s your baby, would you give it away to some automatic plugin or rather use the experience, skills and knowledge of a professional sound engineer? For audio engineering amateurs – it could be a great thing to try their first time, but for anyone considering their work seriously – definitively not. There is no doubt about that type of service is very convenient (as done entirely via Internet and automatically – therefore your “Master” is done in next 10 min or so. This is very incorrect to call that process AUDIO MASTERING (Audio Mastering is a more complicated chain of processes). The focus of the above service is to make the mix/audio file extremely loud. Your music is analyzed by the algorithm and AI applies a certain type of processing to the audio file. In this service, the entire process is done automatically by the computer. This is a crucial point when the machines simply cannot compete with the skilled engineer. The machine will apply processing according to the 0s and 1s inside the file. With reggae, it will be a focus on the bass, whereas with jazz song – focus on fidelity and clarity and smoothness. As per a simple example, humans will do it in a few seconds and will apply processing audio that relates to the specific genre. The computer/automatic software plugin doing Instant Mastering, cannot discern jazz music from reggae. Real Mastering Engineer working in the studio in the listening room can add to the mastering music hers or his perception of the sound, focus on emotions in the music, something which is not possible to measure in any scientific way. It involves human perception, as music is not just rhythm, harmony, but most important – Emotions.
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