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IMO, I think 'mastering' your own music at home is a waste of time. Practicing good mix downs is what you want, with maybe a bit of light bus compression.
Once you get good at eqing and have your mixes sorted, you can play around with a mastering chain, but you are usually better to sort problems out at the mixdown stage.
timmah!-
+1
Mastering is just the final tweaks to a perfect mix before release and should be mastered accordingly to format. Imo, if you've got a one off track going to vinyl it's worth paying a pro to get it right (and I'll plug Ant who has golden ears
https://www.instagram.com/antchapmanaudio/)
No harm in learning about it though, the SOS archive used to have some good stuff and should be available online still. Personally, I'd use my time perfecting my mixing though as it'd yeild greater overall results.
Yukirin
hello!
I've been trying to get into a bit of music production lately.
(just posted a track up on the music makering challenge thread)
does anyone have any good links to tutorials on mastering before I go through the YouTube wormhole?
I'm making kind of ravey-breakbeat-early 90s dance-stabs sort of stuff using fl studio