1 Big Tip for Much Better Masters (…And Mixes!)

Justin Colletti offers one big tip to dramatically improve your masters and your mixes. It has to do with not where, but WHEN you put in your limiter.

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Here’s the tip: Activate your limiter FIRST, not LAST as you go about mastering.

This becomes more and more important the more limiting you do.

Limiting WILL change your EQ curve. And it’s better to EQ once and EQ well by getting your track into the right ballpark for level and limiting before you start EQing.

Although it should come last in the chain, you should fire it up first for best results. More details on the whys and hows in the episode here.

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