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How to Make Songs Sound Consistently Good and Well-sequenced
The mastering process is one of the least understood parts of recording an album. Some artists consider it synonymous with mixing, but it’s not exactly the same thing; mastering is the art of applying EQ, compression, and managing song breaks to make an album sound consistent in sequence and tweak each song to a professional grade of audio quality.
1. Master at a low volume. Ever notice that songs sound better when played loudly? A truly well mastered song will sound great at any volume. If you master at a high volume, your tracks are likely to sound quite a bit different when played low, and in a bad way; but a song mastered at a low volume will still sound great loud. This is due to the way the sound waves reverberate around a given environment, and how our ears process that sound–but avoiding all the tech-talk, in short you’ll get better sounding tracks and less damage to your ears by running your monitors at a low volume…..
Noch paar Link, die deine Frage beantworten sollten:
http://www.mikegarrigan.com/StudioBlog/2006/09/mastering-volume-why-louder-isnt.html
http://www.dynamicrange.de/de/de/wie-ist-der-loudness-war-entstanden
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