Wendy DayCEO/Coach, PowerPlays Coaching, LLC · Helping rappers make money with their music. Building millionaires in the urban music industry since 1992.

Don't be an amateur...

17 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker explains the importance of professional mixing and mastering in music production, describing how these processes tighten a song's sound and prevent distortion at high volumes. They advocate hiring two separate engineers—one for mixing and another for mastering—to provide distinct perspectives. Additionally, the speaker recommends an A/B testing method: after mixing and mastering, compare the track against two commercially successful songs (e.g., Ed Sheeran, Jay‑Z, Lil Baby, Future) by listening to all three consecutively, ensuring the client’s song matches professional quality.

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the way that you deliver professional music. Mixing and mastering is sort of tightening up the song by professionals, by engineers. They tighten your song so that it just sounds better, and they're making sure that when somebody turns the volume up, that it doesn't get distorted. That's what mixing and mastering does. I like to have two different people mix and master for my clients so that there's two different sets of ears on a song. So I have one engineer mix, and then I pay another engineer to master it. Another thing that I like to do is take our song, once it's mixed and mastered, put it between two professional songs, like an Ed Sheeran song and a Jay-Z song, or a Lil Baby song and a Future song, whatever, as long as they're songs that are professional grade, they're already out in the marketplace. I listen to all three songs in a row and I make sure that my song sounds just as good as the,