Advice in mixing and mastering?

[SG.]

Can someone give me a thorough definition of what they are and how to do them? (I'm not stupid, I just want clarification.)

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I'm not an expert myself but The Jokerr gives an explanation in this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGzO3FzEVbI

[B.A.D.]

I'm not an expert myself but The Jokerr gives an explanation in this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGzO3FzEVbI

exactly

Mastering is more than that tho, is also organizing playbacks and adjusting listening levels for entire collections.

the only problem is that you can not do mastering yourself like you would do mixing. It requires a bit more knowledge, experience and tools.

One good advice I can give you, is to have all your songs with at least 6db of headroom between the low and high point of your wave and the slowly compress it until you reach a high and rich volume and without a noticeable crunch in your song