• £299.99

Mastering In Cubase - The Ultimate Guide

  • Course
  • 57 Lessons

Grab a seat next to Dom Sigalas and learn everything you need to know to deliver professional, big sounding, industry-standard masters using exclusively the powerful tools included in Cubase.

In this course, you'll discover:

  • How to set up Cubase for mastering tasks

  • Comprehensive use of all included tools and stock plugins

  • Techniques to achieve a polished, professional sound without buying any external plugins

  • Workflows for big-sounding larger-than-life masters

Dom Sigalas, a renowned Cubase expert and mastering engineer with over 20 years of experience takes you through a mastering deep-dive with over 6 hours of immersive video content.

Mastering In Cubase - From Zero to Hero

Learn the industry secrets and techniques they don't want you to know

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Learn how to Master like a Pro inside Cubase

Who is this course for:

This course is for everyone who wants to take full advantage of what Cubase has to offer for mastering and dive into all the specialized mastering techniques to achieve professional masters

Professional mastering - using stock plugins only

Mastering workflows, tools and secrets using Cubase stock plugins exclusively. You don't need to buy a single plugin to follow!

What you get

✅ A complete mastering workflow from start to finish

✅ Tried and tested mastering workflows

✅ Learn how to create professional masters

✅ Techniques for Loudness

Do these sound familiar?

I can't get my Masters LOUD!

We've all been there. You do all the right things but your masters still sound narrow, dull and lifeless.

🚫 Low end is distorted

🚫 Vocals are painful to listen to

🚫 Snares are flat with no punch

🚫 Mastering hits the right LUFS but sounds quiet!

Something is always missing: Proper mastering technique. No plugin can give you the perfect mastering - but with the right method you will be able to master with confidence every single time

The mixes I work with are NOT perfect- Now what?

Most online masterclasses are great but more often than not, they show mastering on a perfect-sounding mix that only needs a couple of adjustments.

Not helpful right?

I hear you 😉

In my courses, you will find techniques for TOUGH situations. Not ideal scenarios ✅

No matter how you want to approach mastering, I have the method for you. It's all about making the best out of the tools you own with proper technique, deep understanding of music and sound.

No plugins fix my masters!

No, they won't. Not on their own.

In my courses, I demonstrate how you can achieve professional mastering results no matter what tools you use!

✅ Do you want to use only stock plugins in your DAW? No problem!

✅ Do you want to use more specialized plugins that are considered industry-standard? I got you covered?

✅ Do you want to master using analog gear and plugins in a hybrid setup? Oh yeah!

Lesson Plan

Introduction To Mastering In Cubase

Welcome To The Cubase Mastering Course
Meet Your Instructor

Essential Preparation-Making Cubase Mastering-Ready

Overview Of Dom's Personal Mastering Template
Working With The Template
Setting Up Your Reference Tracks
Setting Up The Song's Markers
Creating Fades
Setting Up For Album Mastering
Setting Up You Metering For Mastering

Mastering Fundamentals

My Mastering Approach
Room Treatment
Headphones VS Monitors
Sample Rates- Which One Should You Use?
Bit Depth and Why It Matters

Analyzing the song

Critical Listening Of The Material
Gain Staging
The Secret: Analysing The Mid-Side Information

Corrective Processing- Fixing Issues

Taming Uncontrolled Dynamics - Fixing A Problematic Crest Factor
Applying Filtering The Right Way
Corrective EQing
Using Dynamic EQ For Taming Sibilance
Enhancing A Weak Snare With Dynamic EQ
Linear Phase VS Minimum Phase EQs- When You Should REALLY Use Each
Creating Punch Out Of A Lifeless Mix

The "Pillow Trick" Magic sauce

The Pillow Trick - Adding Low Level Information

Processing for Enhancement, depth and color

Compression
EQing For Color
Adding Tape Saturation - Magneto MKII
Adding Multiband Saturation And Depth With Quadrafuzz II
Using The Multiband Compressor
Using The Imager For Adding Width
Adding Excitement To The Chorus With Mastering Tricks
Addressing Final Issues

Getting things LOUD

Referencing Before Loudness
Making Things Loud
How Loud Should You Get - LUFS Target
Limiting In Stages
Getting Ultra Loud With Squasher

Final Touches- Finalizing

Dithering
Exporting & Creating Deliverables
Making Final Decisions
Verifying The Final Result
Outro

Mastering Power Knowledgebase (Common Mastering Chapters)

These are chapters that are common for all three mastering courses. Therefore, you will find these chapters included on all three courses.

Resetting Your Ears
Making Mastering Revisions
Stem Separation
Dithering-Why It's Important
Too Much Processing
Spectral Editing
The Crest Factor And Why You Should Care About It
Unreasonable Mastering Requests
Sample Rate VS Bit Depth
Listening To Multiple Monitor Speakers

Supporting Material

Here, you can download audio files for practicing and the mastering template that Dom uses professionally for mastering.

Dom Sigalas Mastering Template.cpr
Cosmic Parenthesis_Course Edition.wav
Mastering Signal Flow.pdf
Dom Sigalas Mastering Template Cubase.cpr

Some of the tools you will learn to use

About Dom

Dom Sigalas is a London-based music producer & mixing and mastering engineer with over two decades of experience in the music business.

He has written music for films, TV & radio commercials, documentaries, musicals, video games and hundreds of tracks of library music. You can hear his music on countless commercials and promo videos, especially on those of audio, music software and musical instrument manufacturers.

 Dom has worked in some of the most prestigious mixing and mastering studios worldwide in the course of 20 years.

I also work as a sound designer and preset creator for Award-Winning industry-leading hardware and software companies and have released several software instruments. 

His credits include Universal Music, StudioCanal, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, National Geographic and much more.

Learn From An Industry Expert

Dom Sigalas has been working as a mastering engineer for professional studios worldwide and has been hosting private and public masterclasses for music production and audio engineering all over the world

Dom Sigalas Workshops

Frequently asked questions

I am a beginner in Mastering- Can I take this course?

Yes you can! I am covering everything, from the basics to advanced techniques.

How does the course work?

You can work at your own pace. Binge-learn for 6+ hours or watch 15 minutes at a time- it's up to you!

The course is web, mobile, and tablet-ready. You can stream lessons on any device.

What do I need for this course?

You will need a computer, Cubase (Cubase Pro 13 is recommended) and lots of passion for Mastering ❤️

Do I need to have Cubase to follow this course?

Ideally, you should own Cubase to take full advantage of this course. If you're working on a different DAW, I suggest you check out the Mastering In-The-Box Mastering masterclass.

Which version of Cubase do you use?

I am using the latest version of Cubase 13 Pro. This is the version I recommend you have if you want to be able to use all the tools I show.

Do I need to have any basic knowledge to enroll in this course?

I recommend that you have a very basic understanding of how a DAW works. This is a course on Mastering not how to use a DAW :)

Do I have Lifetime Access to the course?

Once you buy the course, you have full access to it forever. It's not a subscription.