I personally use Slate Digital and Waves plugins but there’s a load of other stuff available. There are lots of other third party EQs, compressors and limiters out there that are probably much better for mastering.

This guide uses the FL Studio Maximiser and Parametric EQ plugins.

Therefore the type of mastering you need to do depends on the kind of music you are working with. The space and dynamic range required for one is not the same as the other. For example, a drumstep track will be mastered very differently to an orchestral piece.

Different types of music require different types of mastering.

For some tips on mixing check out My 10 Most Significant Mixing Lessons.

You can improve some things in mastering but you cannot fix a terrible mix.

Mastering is not the solution to a bad mix.

Those of us attempting to master in our home studios or on our laptops should always be aware of the fact that we will find it very difficult to produce stuff that compares to the industry standard. The music you hear on the radio and buy on CDs are professionally mastered by people with years of experience and amazing equipment.

High quality commercial mastering should be done by high quality commercial mastering engineers.

In this video I introduce you to one method of using Maximus to this end.īefore thinking about mastering and before watching this video, I urge you to consider these four points: If you want to do some basic mastering using just your stock plugins in FL Studio then Maximus is often used to push the volume and reduce the dynamic range.

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