Learn how to restore lost punch, clarity, and depth in your mixes by regaining dynamics and separation from an over-compressed master using Ozone 12. This course walks you through practical techniques and tools to breathe life back into flattened tracks, improve transient detail, and rebuild musical balance for a more open sounding master.

Use a dynamic EQ to enhance the separation and clarity in your master track. You'll explore how to target specific frequency ranges dynamically, allowing them to evolve in real-time. This helps achieve a more transparent and defined mix, making individual elements stand out without over-processing or making drastic changes.

Master your Hip Hop tracks like a pro with 100% Waves Plugins inside a custom StudioRack for easy mastering in any DAW. This tutorial walks you through Reid Stefan’s signature workflow for adding saturation, brightness, width, transients, and limiting to your master chain. This course uses the v12 Waves Plugins StudioRack, Aphex Vintage Exciter, TG Mastering, Smack Attack, and L2 Maximizer.

Discover an easy way to make your vocals and synths sit perfectly together in the mix! In this course, you’ll learn how to use Mid-Side EQ and sidechain techniques to create space, add clarity, and make everything sound smooth and balanced without losing energy or vibe.

This course explores advanced techniques for controlling transients and sustain on your master, showing how to shape punch, clarity, and depth with transient processors, compressors, and dynamic tools to achieve a balanced, powerful final master.

This course focuses on enhancing perceived loudness through parallel compression techniques. You'll learn how to effectively use the SSL Buss Compressor 2 and Tone Projects Unisum to shape dynamics, preserve punch, and achieve professional-level loudness. Practical sessions demonstrate blending compressed and uncompressed signals to maintain clarity while increasing impact.

Learn how to achieve clear separation in your drum mixes using sidechain compression. This course covers the fundamentals of sidechaining, demonstrates practical techniques for making kick and bass elements sit well together, and explores how to create punch, clarity, and movement in your drum tracks.

This course introduces Luca Pretolesi original technique of mid-range compression, a method he developed to enhance presence and clarity in your mix. The technique focuses on compressing the mid-range frequencies to achieve greater definition, ensuring that important elements in a mix stand out without sounding overly harsh. Since its inception, this approach has been widely embraced by other engineers, with several online videos and discussions further exploring the concept and its applications. The course provides a detailed breakdown of how this technique works and how it can be used to improve your mixes.

In this week's episode, Luca Pretolesi will break down the real difference between a loud master and a dynamic master. It's not about changing the intent of the track, it's about tweaking the crest factor to fit the vision. Whether you're chasing clarity or impact, mastering is all in the details!

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