Mastering is the latest creative and technical phase of an album before it is printed. Mixes are made on different days, sometimes even by different mix engineers, and naturally the volume and color differences between songs occur. In an album with Mastering finished, they are all balanced so that the audience does not have to make any adjustments between songs in the music sets they are using.

This does not necessarily mean that each mastering process will give the same result. The balancing program in Mastering will vary depending on the specific style of the program material and the overall balance of the collection in which it will enter. In Mastering, the aim is to balance a classical piece of music, a flat-talk, a piece of folk music and a piece of rock music on a CD in a row, and balance the levels in such a way as not to disturb the transition from one track to another, or even to feel the transition between songs. This requires the mastering engineer to be a very good music listener and to be able to consciously analyze music while listening.

Who is a Mastering Engineer and how?
The Mastering Engineer should have as good a musical as well as a very good ear, very good equipment and serious technical knowledge. They must have an ear to be able to predict problematic frequencies very well. They should be able to use a variety of equipment not found in standard recording studios, both as technical and as ear as what digital technology brings. He must be familiar with many genres of music, and he should listen to plenty of music.

As a result, the duty and responsibility of the album is very high due to the fact that it puts an end to an album that has been prepared by spending thousands of YTL.

How should mastering be performed?
First of all, the acoustics of the place where mastering will be done is good. A mastering room should be quiet and have excellent acoustics. The speakers should be positioned very differently from those used in recording and mix studios. The mixer in the mix and recording studio should not be in the mastering rooms, the loudspeakers should be free of noise and without hitting any place. For this reason, there is a distance between the speakers and the listener in mastering rooms and the landırıl peer edge triangle hoparl rule is not valid for speaker positioning. The loudspeakers used in the mastering room should have a wide range of sound, giving very low frequencies. Generally hi-end hi-fi speakers are preferred in mastering rooms.

The equipment used in Mastering, the wiring and the electrical system must be of very high quality. Analog mastering is preferred by a very mastering engineer. Mastering should not be carried out in the home environment and in particular by using DAW (digital audio workstations) and their plug-ins. In such digital environments, major problems such as stereo constriction, distortion in sound, and scene loss occur as a result of mastering.

A finished project can be sent to the factory with different media. Most commonly used are Audio CD and Exabyte. However, the quality of the Audio CD you use is extremely important. There is no more than a professional brand in CD media. The BLER rates and jitter ratios of the professional products are very low and optimized for audio.

The equipment to be used in the mastering phase are as follows;
1. Mastering Mixer (preferably analog)
2. Hi-End speakers and good quality amplifiers
3. Compressor (preferably analogue-most commonly used Manley Variable-MU)
4. EQ
5. Limiter
6. Mastering quality AD / DA converter
7. Software for PC or MAC computer and CD or Exabyte printing and some restorations

How to go to Mastering?
Before you go to Mastering, you should listen to the mixes you have made in different environments and solve the problems you see yourself. Before you start the Mastering engineer, listen to your mixes, get their comments and make a further correction (for example; turn down the 120hz of the bass guitar to 2dB, and then turn on 1dB as the vocals).

The Mastering engineer may ask you to bring the songs as “stem Mast; ie 2 channel drums and percussion, 2 channel guitars, 2 channel synths, 2 channels back vocals, bass and main voc.

In addition, as a very useful application, üç that is this başka all the other balances of the same balance you want to keep the vocals by raising a 1 or 2dB an alternative mix, 1 or 2dB by dropping another alternative mix and three alternative mix to send to the engineer mastering In some cases, it will facilitate the work of your engineer.