As I promissed in my previous blog entry I will be hand-picking some of the wonderful articles from the “PC Mus Tips” web site and linking to them from here. I would like to do this partially for personal bookmarking reasons but also to help answer some of the most frequently asked questions by JSonar users.
Big thanks to the “PC Mus” site for putting these together!

Mastering is not the very first thing that audio engineers learn but it is the most mysterious of all techniques because it requires so many skills. So what is mastering and how you can become your own mastering engineer? Or can you?

Mastering is the final step in the recording process, where all the songs are checked for errors and the album is prepared for retail sale. This preparation can include a number of things, but usually involves some sort of additional processing (or “sweetening” as many places like to call it) in order to make songs sound clearer and better. 

Read more of this article from the PC Mus Tips site and enjoy!