Music lesson:

• Talking about mastering, since I want to release and album on the 22nd.
• There are two different kinds of loudness: dB (actual) and LUFS (percieved)
• higher frequencies are perceived as louder.
• Streaming platforms will want -14 LUFS, otherwise they’ll modify the audio to match that.
• You can measure LUFS with a plugin, like Youlean
• -14 might sound too soft, could try doing -12.
• For a maximizer, recommends using the ozone maximizer.
• When mastering something, turn the entire mix by -2dB. This gives you some room to make some frequencies louder instead of all of them.
• For EQ, recommends using fabfilter.
• Increase the volume of frequencies that are not loud enough
• Could also try to emphasize frequencies that are not loud enough with things like saturation so they sound crispier.
• For mastering, you will want to generally avoid changes greater than 1 dB.
• Add a 1k scoop in the EQ
• Add a stereo enhancer to fill out the stereo field.