Brian’s Bedroom

This one goes out to Post Paint Boy… If you are new to home recording and your tracks sound unprofessional and quiet, this is most probably due to either bad or no mastering. Mastering is essentially a process which concerns the output levels of your final musical piece. In particular, it’s about trying to get [...]

When mastering, is limiting a good or bad idea? Here are my thoughts… I recently recorded some songs, they sounded fantastic in Ardour but when I mixed then down I found then slightly unsatisfying. Let me explain why… When mastering with JAMin, a limiter is activated by default. Essentially what this does is it takes [...]