CHAPTER 19

Master-Buss Processing, Automation, and Endgame

You should now have the most important section of your mix balanced and sweetened to taste, which brings you to within striking distance of a complete first draft. This chapter explains the steps you need to follow to go the remaining distance.

19.1  MASTER-BUSS PROCESSING

At this point in the mix, you may also wish to try adding further processing to your master buss to refine the combined sound of the entire mixdown signal. This is one of the most complicated mixing tasks there is, because any buss-processing move you make will usually incur some undesirable artifacts, and mitigating these side effects can involve a good deal of finicky parameter tweakage, not only on the master buss ...

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