Online mastering maskes mastering super accessible but is this a good thing?

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I like to be honest on this channel. I like to give you my opinion on everything, whether it's right or wrong. And so I'll give you my peer on online mastering. Obviously I'm a mastering engineer. I'm slightly biased, but I can tell you why I think it works and why it doesn't. I actually have a little bit of history of online mastering, because in the early 2000s when people were a little bit scared to go online, I developed the first online mastering service, which was called E-Masters and then as broadband and things started getting bigger and bigger and people started buying more things online, then all the other studios jumped in.

I was a big kind of person who started that whole kind of online sending your tracks to be mastered. I'm a bit biased in that way and while I think it's good. But the reason why it's become so good now is because so many people are working in their home studios. At the time when I started, they weren't. But because everyone is now, they're very much stuck with one set of speakers, one perspective on the music. And then while on one room that they have. Now, their confidence levels are going to be high in their selected area as in if they're a mix engineer, but when it comes to mastering, they will then think they could do it themselves. But for a very small amount of money between 50 and 200 pounds or dollars, you can actually just send your track off to one of the top mastering guys in the world who will have a room that specially designed, have some speakers.

All they do is mastering, and you can have your track sent there and then have them work on it. Whether you like the result or not is a totally different matter. And also you know whether that engineer is good that's up to you to decide before you send it off to them. Everyone now has that facility for you to be able to do that. So you can pick and choose on stuff that they've worked on, genres that they're good at, and then you can then say, "Okay, I'm going to give them a go." And for a very small amount of money, it's very easy just to get your track mastered and see if you like it. Now, that is great because you've got a new set of ears who are going to come back and report back and say, "Have you thought about tweaking this, that, and the other, and then you can get a better sound out of your mix."

They might just say, it's great, so then that gives you the confidence to think, "Okay, room's going well, and I'm doing the right thing when it comes to mixing." It's just having that extra person there who's a professional who understands the sound and what things should sound like when they're very finished, and then that will help you progress. I think that's very important rather than trying to make some master yourself or record mix and master yourself. It's trying to keep these things as a specialist place and not just have them all sort of together so that you're just smashing into a limiter. Now, I will say as a mastering engineer who does tracks every day, and I also listen to people's reference masters that they've done themselves. I would say to you are a probably 75% of the time, I will always get a better sound than the limited version.

That's not with me listening and comparing and trying to get better. That's just me doing what I do and then listening back to what they did and then me showing them what I did. I will always get a better sound. I will always get it more open, I will always get it louder if that's what they want. But I will always have that different perspective on it. I'm not listening to the individual instruments, I'm not worried about what the problems were with the mixes. I'm just taking it on face value and then reporting back to the mix engineer asking for tweaks and then getting it to the place where I want to go. And so I think just having that as an online facility, some of these pretty amazing these days, because in the old days before I started the E-Masters and before the whole online world came about in the last 20 years, you had to turn up with your tapes, and you had to make sure that there was a mastering guy that could do it and fit it into his schedule.

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