MASTERING IN ABLETON LIVE

aving covered mixing songs in Ableton Live in last month’s tutorial, we’re now moving onto mastering. Mixing is the process of finishing individual tracks and then adjusting equalisation, effects and levels to make the final product sound as good as possible. Following that process comes mastering. You might wonder why there’s a separate stage after the mixing. Surely with everything set, that’s enough? Not quite. Mastering comes after the mix is finished and exported as a stereo file, and provides a producer’s