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What is Mastering?

There are thousands of playback systems with all kinds of sound qualities and frequency responses.

From a cheap boom box to an audiophile home stereo, not two systems sound the same, especially when you also factor in room acoustics. That's the reason why once you've finished your work in the studio your music mix needs to go through one more final and crucial step, mastering. Music mastering is not mixing where tracks from a multi-track format are reduced to a two channel stereo mix format (left & right stereo), and the point to it, is to have your music sounding best as it can under any listening conditions.

From a historical point of view, the name is ' pre-mastering', and "mastering" used to be referred to the creation of the replication medium {the master} needed at manufacturing plants.

These days pre-mastering is synonymous of mastering which from a technical point of view, is also the process of optimizing all individual frequency levels to meet the industry standards. For the most part this process is source dependent, so the better your mix, the better the results to be obtained. Because of this, results vary from recording to recording, making it a crucial step for best system translation.