Why Use a Mastering Step in Podcast Production?

Because adding a bit more compression, EQ and limiting, etc. to the entire episode in the very last step of production can make a big difference in terms of perceived loudness, tightening up the mix, evening out levels of voices (slightly), and polishing the low and high frequencies.

Plus you can usually fix any small mixing mistakes in the mastering step, too. For instance, if one participant’s voice is a bit louder than the other participant, a bit more compression will tame or reel in the louder voice, and by comparison bring up the level of the lower voice.

And once you come up with mastering settings that you like, you can pretty much use the same mastering processing for every episode.

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