What Logic's Mastering Assistant does, and when to take over
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A tour of Logic's Mastering Assistant: what mastering is for, the tone characters and custom EQ, brickwall limiting, integrated LUFS, Excite, stereo width and loudness compensation, with warnings about where it overdoes things.
An honest look at an automatic mastering tool that explains each stage it automates, so you know when to accept it and when to step in.
- 1:52 Instantiating Mastering Assistant
- 3:21 What is Mastering?
- 4:28 Understanding Mastering for different media
- 5:41 Mastering Assistant - tone control
- 7:55 Tone changes via Character choices
- 9:36 Exploring tone Character options
- 11:17 Custom EQ overlay
- 13:40 What is a Brickwall Limiter?
- 15:08 What is LUFS?
- 17:37 Measuring Integrated LUFS
- 20:51 Excite option
- 21:40 What is Stereo Width?