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To self master or not to self master

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From the course: A Prolific Music Producer's Workflow for Finishing Tracks

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To self master or not to self master

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- Now that we've got our mix in order it's time to consider mastering. What is mastering? Well, mastering has come to mean a lot of different things in the history of recorded music. Back in the day the mastering engineer was actually the guy that would cut the lacquer so that you could make a vinyl record out of it, these were real artisans. Nowadays mastering engineers are basically the guys who, in theory, the way that I look at it, should help you make your mix five percent better and get it at a nice competitive loudness. That's really how I see it. So the question is this: Are you going to self master or are you not going to self master? Well, what I suggest is you consider first and foremost your budget because you want to be a productive, prolific producer. That's really what's important here. And if you're going broke every time you release a record it's not going to work out, or at least it wouldn't in my life. So, the thing that you have to consider is your budget, first of…

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