Mixing Them: The Differenceįirst and foremost we need to establish the difference between mixing and mastering. We’ll talk about the goals of mastering songs, the main ideas to keep in mind as we go about doing it, and finally how to master music like the professionals do it.
That’s why you hear studio engineers and musicians suggest that you should “fix it in the mix,” and then you’ll hear mixing engineers say “eh, let them fix it in mastering.” Each occurs separately in time. The key thing this tells us is that this process occurs apart from mixing. Otherwise your album would sound like a compilation of random songs by the same artist.
Yes, you want each individual song to sound great alone, which is the main task involved in mastering, but it also involves taking each separate track of an album and making them sound like a unified whole. You polish off the entire album in the context of itself as a whole. But despite the misconceptions, you don’t just master a single track.
Mastering a track is the very last step to polishing a song before you release it to the public.
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