Step-by-step Guide to Mastering Pop Music | Are You Listening? Season 6, Ep 5

Learn how to master a pop song from start to finish in this step-by-step mastering guide. In the fifth episode of Season 6, professional mastering engineer and Berklee professor Jonathan Wyner teaches you how to master a pop song with iZotope Ozone, covering key aspects of pop music like level and low end before diving deeper into limiting, automation, dynamics processing, and stereo imaging. By the end of this video, you’ll be able to confidently master a song with a commercial pop sound.

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The song being mastered in this video is "Give it Time" by Braden the Young: https://www.marmosetmusic.com/browse/...

Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:29 - Mastering in genres
01:33 - Prepare your track for mastering
04:04 - Listen to your track
06:54 - Validate your decisions with visualizer
13:11 - Using the Master Assistant
17:30 - Start by adjusting for tone
23:26 - Setting the limiter
26:33 - Automation for emotional impact
30:01 - Dynamics processing in mastering
35:53 - Excitation in mastering
37:48 - Stereo imaging in mastering
38:27 - Final thoughts

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