Here are just a few of my mastering music fundamentals:

Listeners perceive louder music to be better music, so you want to use compression and limiting to make your tracks really punch through the speakers.
All tracks on your album should be a good relative level to each other. You can make acoustic tracks really loud [...]

If you looking for a how to mastering music guide then the best thing you can do is to look for something from Bob Katz. Bob is a master of mastering and his book The Music Mastering Handbook has been an endless source of help and inspiration for me.
In these books Bob not only gives [...]

Cheap music mastering can be achieved if you keep things quite simple. When I’m making a demo for an album track I’ll open up Audacity or Pro Tools and import the stereo files into the session then create my stereo master track.
For very basic mastering I first add an EQ to the whole track and [...]

If you’re looking for a free music mastering program you might just want to consider iTunes.
That may sound strange but I’ve been testing it today with some quite nice results, and the super simple commands make it very hard to completely ruin you mix!
Firstly you select you track then go to “get info”. You will [...]

In this post I want to give you two tips on mastering music you can start using right now.
The first tip is to test you master through your nice studio speakers until it sounds perfect, then once your done make it your mission to test it through all manner of audio playback systems that [...]

The most basic music mastering equipment would come in the form of a compressor and a limiter. It’s true to say that a professional mastering house spends a great deal of money on all manner of audio gear to give their tracks that radio polished sound. But if your on a budget and can mix [...]

For me the best music mastering software out there has to be Pro Tools, I know that you may be more used to thinking of Pro Tools in terms of a mixing and editing package but after you have bounced your mix to a single stereo file the best option is to save the money [...]

If you looking for some free music mastering software look no further than the king or open source ‘Audacity’
You can find the download link below and as soon as you open the software I’m sure you be amazed by the array of mixing, touching up and mastering options open to you.
Of course if you did [...]

Music CD mastering has a few different parts to consider. This first of which would be making sure that all the tracks on your album are the same level. This is important because you don’t want to kill the ears of the people that take the time to listen to your creation.
You also want to [...]

The music doctor mixing and mastering is a  great read for any budding home producers out there.
It’s not a ground breaking work but if your still confused about how to get a good mix on a budget then this book is going to be a good buy for you.
I have to say that my favourite [...]