Mastering In Cubase - The Ultimate Guide
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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)

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

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

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.

10 Lessons