audio post-production

The average RMS level for mastered commercial Hip Hop/Rap songs varies around the range of -7 dB and -9 dB RMS. However, it may be much better to reference loudness using LUFS instead of RMS. Either way, it's not uncommon for some tracks to have an average RMS reading of -6 dB RMS or sometimes...

Given that a mastering limiter is an audio compressor with a very high compression ratio. The main purpose of using one is more often to make things louder whilst avoiding nasty audible distortion (unless if that's the desired sound). All mastering limiters manipulate dynamic range and some are...

Almost any digital or analog audio compressor has a parameter labeled ratio and this allows a beatmaker, a mixing or an audio mastering engineer to set the amount of compression that takes place when an audio signal goes past the "threshold level" of the compressor. For example, a compression...

In music production, an audio compressor is a sound effect (i.e., either an analog hardware unit or a digital audio software plugin) designed to reduce the dynamic range (DR) of the source material or entire mix as a means to either smoothly or aggressively control volume fluctuations...

A brickwall limiter is an audio signal processing effect either found in a physical hardware form or as a digital audio software plug-in extension (i.e., VST, AAX, AU plug-ins, etc) and is for the most part used in audio post-production (or audio mastering) to make music (or the program...

What's the appropriate amount of dB gain reduction you should do with Waves L2 Ultramaximizer mastering limiter?

Some hardware and plug-in dynamic processors (i.e., audio compressors and brickwall limiters) have a function that allows you to activate "auto-release" (or auto-recovery) which in turn adjusts the release time automatically with the input signal instead of a fixed setting e.g. 100 milliseconds...

RMS (i.e., short for Root Mean Square) is a measurement of the average perceived loudness in music. It doesn't take into account fast transients (or peaks) in the audio material in question, but rather the average level of sustained input audio signal for a given duration (e.g., 400 ms.) Now as...

Is oversampling enabled in iZotope's Ozone Maximizer by default?

A DAW (digital audio workstation) is a computer program or mobile software (i.e., an iOS or Android application) used by your favorite recording artists, music producers, film composers, sound designers, and audio engineers as a virtual environment to create intellectual property so that you as...

How should you set a high-pass filter and a low-pass filter when mastering music?

What's the technique or process of making drums sound more punchy when mastering music?

Which audio mastering brickwall limiter is better between Image-Line's Maximus and iZotope's Ozone Maximizer?

What brickwall limiters do y'all like the most and why?

What on earth is Mastered for iTunes and how is it different from the conventional ways of mastering music?

What's the purpose and the function of the Leveler knob on PSPaudioware Xenon Mastering Limiter?

How much RAM (computer memory) do I need to improve the performance of a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) and make everything run smoothly without having to bounce tracks so often?

I have been wondering how you should set attack and release times in mastering? Is there some sort of particular guideline on how to dial in master bus compressor settings when mastering Hip Hop/Rap music?