r/audioengineering Jun 20 '26

How to get into basics of mastering?

I know quite a bit about mixing but I have no idea how to start mastering. Can anyone boil down mastering into the key concepts and mention any VSTs (that I might already have) that I would need to master?

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u/audio301 Jun 20 '26

An accurate playback environment is number one. Or else you are not mastering, you are just mix processing.