May 27, 2015

TT 3 | Joey Sturgis Mastering Tips and Tricks

TT 3 | Joey Sturgis Mastering Tips and Tricks

Joey Sturgis shares his In The Box mastering tips and tricks.

Joey Sturgis shares his In The Box mastering tips and tricks.

Out of the three of us, Joey Sturgis has done the most mastering and in fact, he's never had one of his mixes mastered by an outside engineer. He's totally self-taught and responsible for several chart-topping masters. In this episode, he shares some of his most effective mastering techniques.

Joey dives into his process, and how goes about getting the last 5 to 10% out of the track, using tools such as saturation, harmonic exciters, processors like Waves MaxxBass and spatial treatment.

Having your mix unmastered is kind of like having a product on the shelf that doesn’t look like it was put together by a designer” - Joey Sturgis

In This Episode You'll Learn about:

  • Joey's goto mastering plugins
  • Multi-band compression
  • The loudness war
  • Dithering
  • Saturation in mastering
  • Best uses for Izotope Ozone
  • Enhancing the low end for small speakers
  • Limiting vs clipping
  • Mid-Side processing

Links:

Fuck 4k Plugin and Shirt

Waves MaxxBass

Fab Filter Pro-Mb

Izotope Ozone

Waves LinMB