Originally Posted by Lwilliam
Always, always, always compare your "master" with a professionally-mastered song similar in style for EQ balance, compression, and loudness.



I'd like to add that when picking your album you are comparing it to - be careful. I mean I can point you to 100's of albums that I wouldn't want to sound like in just about every genre including jazz and classical because even those genre's are not immune to the loudness wars.


Paul Elliott
Head Mastering Engineer
The Soundlab @ Disc Makers