Get Richer Feeling Masters in 4 Steps with Waves Horizon Bundle

Nov 18, 2021 | 13,934 Views

Mastering is the final and one of the most critical stages in music production. Its purpose is to strengthen detail, enhance the listening experience and ensure music is suitably loud enough for distribution. Sounds daunting, but fear not! With the plugins in Waves Horizon Bundle, producing amazing sounding masters isn't as difficult as you may think.

In this video, songwriter, producer and mix engineer Paul Drew from The Studio Rats shows you 4 essential steps you need to know to elevate any mix into a rich and loud sounding master.

0:00 Introduction
0:15 Listen to music example
0:59 #1 EQ for clarity
2:07 #2 Bus Compression for glue and density
3:25 #3 Widen the highs for ear candy
4:26 Before and after comparison of stages 1,2 & 3
4:55 #4 Limiting for loudness
5:33 Comparing L1’s crunch to L2’s clean limiting

Waves Horizon bundle includes 83 Waves plugins for mixing and mastering. It’s our most popular plugin bundle to date. Learn more about Waves Horizon and see all the modeled EQs, compressors, effects and more included in this epic bundle. Discover Waves Horizon here!

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