COCPORN

I'm about ready to start mastering Hello Girls 2010. Not that I've 100 % decided that the mix is finished; I'll give myself the chance to go back and change stuff if I'm not happy with it. But it's time to setup a general mastering strategy. The most recent audio examples have had the Propellerhead Record master compressor enabled, I think it gives the track a sweet shine, but I'm not sure if it's loud enough, and I'd also like to check it for problem areas. So I've decided to test two master approaches; one with the master compressor enabled and one with it disabled.

The next steps will be to run the track through Har-Bal and iZotope Ozone. The Har-Bal-guys have posted a sweet mastering tutorial here. I guess this means that I'll not be using the Abbey Road online mastering service for this release.