Too many producers treat mixing and mastering as two completely separate stages - almost like different jobs. But here’s the truth: if you’re producing and mixing your own music, the mastering is already happening inside your mix session. 🎯
In my experience, separating the two creates an unnecessary mental barrier. Producers finish a mix, bounce it out, open a new project, and suddenly start second-guessing everything they already did. The reality is - your processing decisions, your gain staging, your bus chain - all of it contributes to the final product in real time. There’s no magic “mastering phase” where a limiter fixes a weak mix.
Working in a single session gives you full control over every element. You hear the relationship between your sounds and your master bus together, which leads to better decisions from the start. When you bounce to a separate project, you lose that direct connection to the individual tracks. 🔊
a month agophilipp_beesen
It’s a bit like the invisible gorilla experiment. After producing and mixing a track for weeks, you can stop hearing what’s right in front of you. A separate process with a mastering engineer brings back that fresh perspective.
2 months agowishingcaps
I like bouncing out for mastering in T-Racks suite but deffo prefer mastering my own stuff
3 months agoasparuhh133
Mixing in the mix project oftentimes saves time when you need to tweak something eg. the kick or snare being too loud. But when im feeling professional i do master in a different project
3 months agoyoiz_beatz
I need some mixing assistance, I have this clap that I’m using but when it hits and raises the volume of my melodies. How do you fix this.. I tried to cut frequencies and change that attack on the clap using a transient processor.
3 months agogrxdi_
Im newer in this space but mastering on a new empty project just helps me “reset” my brain and ears and treat it like a different project. However I do the mix bus processing on the same project and make sure everything is clear and loud so that mastering is about microtweaks, glueing and not pushing the limiters too hard
3 months agoniborayakera83
Saludos Maestro, he visto tus videos y tus intervenciones en otras entrevistas. Wooow uno queda tipo...😮. No cuento con los equipos necesarios para lograr un sonido, solo la PC y un par de monitores de mesa. Pero tu inspiras ha seguir adelante....Saludos y bendiciones.
4 months agoitsveom
Personally, i like to separate the song to different projects Specially if i have to record the vocal session, audio mix, Music arrangement, drums and so on.. I keep them in One File, the only problem with this method is it takes sometimes to load between different projects, extra space needed, but it’s a great method if you are dealing with big Stuff.
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