Mastering Essentials for Music Producers - Workshop with Nick Trepka

Back in April I co-hosted a mastering workshop with Music Producer Nick Trepka where we looked at some of the mixes submitted by members of his T.R.E.P.K.A music community. These songs were mastered using completely free plugins available in any DAW, and now you can watch the workshop here...

https://youtu.be/T6mG3OjvsxI?si=wBDr-gis-ktJBjoT

The plugins used:

EQ

TDR Nova EQ - clean, surgical dynamic EQ - https://www.tokyodawn.net/tdr-nova/

Pultec Rare EQ - https://www.patreon.com/posts/90832098?pr=true

Max Bax EQ - https://www.patreon.com/posts/maxbax-64791433

COMPRESSION

SSL Buster compressor - https://www.patreon.com/posts/busterse-42658623

Vari Moon compressor - https://www.patreon.com/posts/varimoon-34323360

LIMITER

Frontier Limiter - https://d16.pl/frontier

Wavebreaker TP Limiter - https://pressplay-music.com/wave-breaker/

METERING

Youlean loudness meter - https://youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter/

Voxengo SPAN analyser - https://www.voxengo.com/product/span/