• £299.99

Mastering In-The-Box | Ultimate Masterclass

  • Course
  • 52 Lessons

Take a seat in the studio next to Dom and learn mastering secrets with Dom's two decades of mastering expertise.

  • Professional techniques and mastering workflows

  • Preparing your music for mastering

  • Deep dive into professional tools: EQ, dynamic processing, stereo imaging, saturation, clipping, limiting, upward expansion

  • Industry-leading plugins and their tricks revealed

  • Achieving optimal loudness

  • Crafting a professional-quality master

Dom Sigalas, a mastering engineer with over 20 years of experience takes you through a mastering deep-dive with nearly 7 hours of video content.

Master Like A Pro

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

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Mastering In The Box- All you need to know

Here's what you will learn in this course

Who is this course for:

This course is for everyone who wants to learn how to perform mastering professionally using the top industry standard tools and plugins available. Equip yourself with the knowledge needed to master any genre with confidence

Mastering Secrets Revealed

Discover foolproof workflows for professional masters

✅ Solve issues with confidence

✅ Master any type of music

✅ Achieve depth, punch and 3D Depth

✅ Get LOUD (if needed)

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

✅ Tried and tested Mastering Secrets

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!

What You Will Learn

Introducing Mastering In The Box Masterclass by Dom Sigalas

Introduction to Mastering In The Box
Meet Your Instructor - An Introduction By Dom Sigalas

Preparation -Setting Things Up Properly

Preparing the Session
Identifying The Song's Sections - Creating Markers

Cubase Template Workflow

These chapters give you an overview of my own personal Cubase mastering template I've been using professionally. If you use another DAW these chapters will still be useful as most of the techniques I'm showing here can be applied to your own DAW

Overview Of Dom's Personal Mastering Template
Setting Up Your Reference Tracks
Album Mastering Approach
Setting Up Your Metering For Mastering

The Mastering "things" You should know about

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

Setting up for success

Critical Analysis Of The Song - Determining The Crest Factor
Setting Up The Headroom - Gain Staging
Analyzing The Mid-Side Information

Corrective Processing

Taming Uncontrolled Dynamics
EQ: Before Or After Compression?
Mid-Side Corrective EQing- The Powerhouse Of Mastering
Spectral Corrections And Additional EQ

Enhancing Low Level information

Enhancing Low Level Information - The DBX-160 "Pillow" Trick
Referencing The Original Mix - Are You Actually Making Things Better?

Processing for enhancing

Applying Mastering Compression
Applying Mastering EQ- Which EQ Should You Use?
Adding EQ For Color
Harmonic Exciters And When To Use Them
Adding Saturation For A Richer Sound

Getting Loud

Using Clipping - And Making It Count!
Limiting in Layers- The Method
How Loud Should You Get?
Was It All Worth It?
Adding Excitement To The Chorus
Getting The Master Ready

Mastering Power Tips

Mastering Sub Heavy Material With Big 808s
Using Multiband Mid-Side Compression- The System 6000-MD3
Big Lows, Loud Masters
Master done!

Mastering Power Knowledgebase (Common Mastering Chapters)

Important things you should be aware of when it comes to mastering. Don't skip these chapters, these are really useful, I promise!

The Crest Factor And Why You Should Care About It
Dithering - Why It's Important
Sample Rate VS Bit Depth
Resetting Your Ears
Stem Separation for Mastering
Linear Phase VS Minimum Phase EQ
Spectral Editing - A Secret Weapon For Mastering
Making Mastering Revisions
Unreasonable Mastering Requests
Too Much Processing
Should You Listen To Multiple Monitor Speakers?

Supporting Material

Dom Sigalas Mastering Template.cpr
Low Key_Course Edition.wav
Back Home_Course Edition.wav
Mastering Signal Flow.pdf

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.

Do I need to have all these plugins?

No, certainly not! In this course I am teaching you mastering techniques and workflows. E.g. when I show an EQ mastering technique, you can use the EQ of your choice. I just happen to prefer the tools I show in the masterclass.

Do I need to have Cubase to follow this course?

No. All the techniques I show can be applied to most major DAWs. Of course, if you use Cubase, you will take advantage of my personal templates that I use professionally.

Which version of Cubase do you use?

I am using the latest version of Cubase 13 Pro.

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.