Audio Mastering
Audio mastering is the final stage of music production. It prepares your mix for release by improving tonal balance, loudness, stereo image, and translation across playback systems.
What Is Audio Mastering
Mastering refines the final mix so tracks sound clean, consistent, and competitive on headphones, speakers, and streaming platforms.
Read the complete introduction to What Is Audio Mastering?.
How Mastering Works
A typical workflow includes critical listening, EQ, compression, saturation, limiting, and loudness calibration for target platforms.
Follow a step-by-step guide on How to Master a Song.
AI Mastering
AI mastering automates audio analysis and processing to deliver fast, consistent masters for musicians and producers.
Explore AI Mastering, Online Mastering, and Automatic Mastering.
Mastering for Streaming Platforms
Streaming services apply normalization rules, so mastering choices should match LUFS targets and preserve punch after platform processing.
Learn about Spotify LUFS, Mastering for Streaming Platforms, and Mastering for Spotify.
Mastering by Genre
Different genres need different tonal and dynamic strategies to stay impactful while meeting platform requirements.
Resources
Mixing vs Mastering helps clarify what should be fixed in the mix stage versus the mastering stage.