

These plugins can be used to sculpt the timbre and dynamics of your music to professional standards.

That said, there are a plethora of tools currently available if your primary goal is to simply enhance the sonics of your recordings before uploading for streaming and/or distributing via compact disc, vinyl, etc. With Apple’s spatial audio option available as part of their music streaming service, MEs will continue to tweak their processes to create masters optimized for an ever-evolving and complex listening format. Throughout history, MEs have adapted to changes in technology, delivering music optimized for vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD and now streaming. There are still many skills mastering engineers possess that go beyond processing a stereo mix to sound fuller, clearer and louder. This isn’t to say that one can claim to be a mastering engineer after simply purchasing a few plugin packs. Mastering completely in the box can still render professional results. While hardware equalizers, compressors, exciters, high end converters and even analog tape remain tools within the ME’s arsenal, software has improved greatly over the decades. What you’re doing is cutting both the stuff that cancels out, and also the stuff that is completely different.Plugins have gradually found their way into the mastering engineer’s workflow. But you still retain the bits where both sides are completely different. If you mono something, then the bits that cancel out will disappear. Stuff where both sides are the same - mono Stuff where both sides are completely different - stereo But there’s 3 things going on in the stereo field - like when you look at a phase meter. No you’re not totally wrong, and I’m sure it sounds great - Basses are generally mono anyway. Now, if i cut only the Side signal unter 100 Hz e.g., it should behave like a transision between stereo and mono signal. Correlation is equivalent to volume in the respective part of the split. If i use Fabfilter Pro Q 2 in M/S Mode, muting the sidesignal should have the same effect as mono’ing the signal, becaus the M/S Matrix splits the signal in correlated and uncorelated parts. Can you describe and explain this a bit further?Īs far as i’ve learnd this, mono’ing something does have the same effect, since uncorrelated parts of the signal are canceling each other out and disapear because of that.
