but I do personally like my third-party mastering plugins. YES, you can master in FL Studio with stock plugins. The most important thing to understand when you master a song is being gentle on mastering plugin settings. Mastering requires a lot of understanding of your audio plugins, and having a good listening environment.

Mastering a song from scratch in FL Studio is relatively easy, but getting your song to sound commercially polished is not. How to Master Your Own Music in FL Studio

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I highly suggest you check out my mastering plugin resources: Mastering engineers use audio processing plugins like: An example of mastering plugins in FL Studio. To get a good master, it comes down to wise sound selection, good mixing, and raising the overall loudness in a balanced way without distortion or pumping.įor more details, read Different Tools for Mastering Beats.

Pro-Tip: Create a duplicate copy of your project before you attempt mastering (as well as mixing) so you can play around and not wreck your song. If you’re just starting to learn how to make beats in FL Studio, mastering will come much later, as it’s more important to learn music production techniques like drum loops, music theory, the piano (course), and how the DAW even works! mixing before mastering gives you the best results 🙂 Technically, you don’t have to mix your music to have it mastered, as long as it’s not distorting, and the peaks haven’t been limited, clipped, or compressed too hard! But. It’s making sure the audio is up to a commercial loudness and that the music sounds good on multiple listening devices (small speakers, big speakers, headphones, cellphones, etc). Mastering is the final step in preparing your music for the world to listen to your music. For more info, read What is Mastering? How to Master Your Own Music

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