Skillful mastering, with an unbiased ear, can always help bring a cohesive and balanced sound to an album or add the final touch to make single stand out. Sometimes a recording needs to have its uniqueness enhanced, or it simply needs leveling, tops and tails.

I do as little or as much as needed, a light touch or a heavy hand. I’ve learned various techniques and approaches to achieve subtle results that, when needed, add up to big changes. I always serve the project, not my ego. That ethos is applied all the way to the smallest details, such as laboring over spacing and fade types and lengths.

Your finished mixes! Ideally with all of your bus processing you mixed into left on. Sometimes that means with the limiter, and that’s ok too! After that, it’s information for metadata and various file types that are the final step in prepping your files for distribution.