What is Mastering in Podcast Production?

Mastering, in general, is the final step of audio production in music, movies, podcasting, videos, etc.

In podcasting, the main role of mastering is to set the final audio level of the episode to -19 LUFS (if mono) or -16 LUFS (if stereo).

In addition to LUFS leveling, “crazy” people like me and many other accomplished podcast engineers take the opportunity in the mastering step to make additional tweaks to the audio using processors like EQ, compression, limiting, saturation, exciters, filtering and/or whatever else will make the episode sound even better.

What does your mastering step consist of? Comment below 😉

And if you’re interested, check out The History of Mastering.

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