One of the things that can really make your music stand out from the crowd and give it a professional sheen is high quality mastering. Mastering is a very different process from mixing which many amateur musicians who record their own tracks unfortunately often ignore. A fantastic place to start to learn about the art
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The Loudness War – Now with Data and Charts!
I’ve mentioned The Loudness War before – squashing the dynamic range of a track to try and boost the loudness to make it stand out – but MusicMachinery.com has a great post with an in-depth explanation and the data to back it up. Paul Lamere of The EchoNest analyzed over 15,000 tracks to measure their loudness (and shows
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