Sean O on Nostr: I struggle a lot with digital audio mastering. Given space and money, I'd dedicate a ...

I struggle a lot with digital audio mastering. Given space and money, I'd dedicate a mastering rack with at least $2K in equipment. Otherwise, I'm using stock digital plug ins from Logic Pro.

People say you need headroom but I've always treated as-close-to-zero as the goal with all digital signals. Turns out I was right.

So in digital audio mastering, there is no use for headroom. You want to compress the shit out of it without degrading the dynamics completely.

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