Mastering tracks

[acewhistle]

Hi peepz,

I'm trying to follow some of Mike's tutorial (Creative Sauce) mastering tips.

In using Reference trax as your guiding point, I've noticed that a song goes beyond the -3 level in the master bus and I have to match the volume level with my mixed track.

Can I ask if this is ok to follow this tip as I thought your final mastered track should not be clipping?

Many thanks.

[Bill Phillips]

7 hours ago, Lord Tim said:

Import in whatever song you want to use as your reference and put it on the REFERENCE track and solo it. That will be sending the output of that track directly to your metering so you can see what it's doing.

I think if you mute all tracks being mastered except for the one you're currently working on, you can use Exclusive Solo to toggle between the Master Bus and Reference Track to compare them.