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Now We Pump Up The Volume
Maybe the
most important thing that the mastering engineer will do for
you is to make your mix sound noticeably louder than it
originally did. Just like the commercials between the
scenes of your favorite TV shows, compressing raises the
average level and therefore the audio sounds louder. In
mastering music, however, we whish to keep the original
clarity on the instruments and the preserve perceived sound
quality of the original mix. Many of the commercials sacrifice
sound clarity and quality for impact, but the professional
mastering engineer, working with music, would never make that
sacrifice.
Some
sacrifice of sound quality is unavoidable with compression,
but the mastering engineer will work to minimize any such
loss. The possible .... |
