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KyleDiSanto · 1st July 2009

So here's something that came up after I met up with some of my banking buddies last night that I would like to seek some council about...

How do you guys/gals define mastering for the non-musician/producer/engineer/etc...type?

I have no problem explaining it to clients, bands, artists, other people who work in the industry, but it seems that MASTERING is this really hard concept to grasp for them. Obviously I blame my own communication and so I'm wondering what you say to others, maybe freinds/family and etc... when asked to define what it is you do.

Its funny, because the normal things I would say to a band like "make the album flow as a whole, be balanced, sound great on all systems, bring it up to commercial level"...ya ya ya ya ya...stuff doesn't seem to satisfy them in definition...

So before I drive my self nuts over this one...what do you all think?

1st July 2009	#1
KyleDiSanto Gear addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: NYC Posts: 484 Thread Starter	Defining MASTERING for the lay man... So here's something that came up after I met up with some of my banking buddies last night that I would like to seek some council about... How do you guys/gals define mastering for the non-musician/producer/engineer/etc...type? I have no problem explaining it to clients, bands, artists, other people who work in the industry, but it seems that MASTERING is this really hard concept to grasp for them. Obviously I blame my own communication and so I'm wondering what you say to others, maybe freinds/family and etc... when asked to define what it is you do. Its funny, because the normal things I would say to a band like "make the album flow as a whole, be balanced, sound great on all systems, bring it up to commercial level"...ya ya ya ya ya...stuff doesn't seem to satisfy them in definition... So before I drive my self nuts over this one...what do you all think?