![]() Smeared transients and imaging, brittle high end, distortion and pumping are all artifacts that can damage your track. This type of corner cutting will cause collateral damage, for instance. Web-based processing often involves very poor quality web based ‘plugins’, which often involves some sort of EQ preset and low quality limiter to raise the volume of your music. Limited Processingįree mastering services use a web-based signal path, which means your music never leaves the webpage for processing. Our development team is constantly working on the LANDR mastering engine to ensure you get a master as quickly as possible, without compromising the quality. With LANDR, you’re getting a professional master in just a few minutes, which is still blazingly fast compared to a real mastering engineer. Speed comes at the expense of two things quality of analysis, and quality of processing. These important decisions take time to make. Our proprietary genre recognition technology actually understands your music, and makes decisions based on what it’s hearing. They make fine tuned adjustments so that the loudness of your mix will compete with other music on streaming services, while still adhering to audio guidelines. Mastering engineers take the time to listen to your music, and determine what it needs to sound professional on any sound system. If you’ve spent hours fine tuning a mix, why would you need the mastering process to be lightning fast? You should question any type of audio processing that spits out a new audio file in seconds. Pro quality software takes time and resources to develop-and that comes at a price. They're often made by creative developers working on passion projects in their spare time, but, there's a reason you won't see too many free tools in a pro mix engineer's plugin folder. It's a fine line-there are plenty of great free plugins for mixing available to download online. ‘Free’ comes with drawbacks most of the time, and in fact, when it comes to free mastering, these drawbacks will often hurt your mix. This saying will always be relevant, no matter the context. Preview a LANDR Master for Free Free mastering is too good to be true I’ll be demoing comparative audio examples, and explain why you should think twice before trusting a free service with your final master. In this article, I’m going to explain the difference between LANDR and free mastering. Since then, our team of mastering engineers that work with labels like Warner Records, Disney Music Group and Atlantic Records meticulously update and teach our engine to continuously produce professional quality masters. LANDR launched the world's first automated mastering service in 2014. Luckily, professional mastering has never been more accessible. Mastering is the finishing touch that finalizes all of your hard work, however, if it’s not done properly you could lose out on potential listeners, fans and opportunities. Remember that mastering is the final step in music production before potential fans, managers, and labels hear your music. You can tell by looking at the difference between a track mastered for free, and a professional master: ![]() Unfortunately, these ‘free’ solutions have the potential to do a ton of harm to your music. You're one click away to finish your track. The idea of mastering for free sounds great after you’ve put in a ton of work writing, producing and mixing your music.
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