[courtney2018]

Originally Posted by 7 Strings of Hate

Oh, thats mastering? I thought you were basically supposed to have that done by the time that mastering begins.

Are you thinking about the effects that you apply to your guitar sound while you're playing? What you'd want to do is record with a non-effect signal. Take out all the reverb, delay, and chorus and put whatever compression you want in your signal. Then record your clean or distortion parts. Once you're in your mastering program then you add compression, reverb, delay, chorus, and whatever else you want in there. If you were to go to a real recording studio this is how it would be done - told simply of course.

It's easier to adjust those effects in the mastering program then to re-record your guitar part with the effects in there already. You might have to re-record 20, 30, 40 times or more to get it perfectly right the way you want.

There's alot of mastering programs out there that do alot more than just mastering. I use FLStudio. If you don't have anything you can try out FLStudio for nothing. Download a trial and get full access to every feature the program has to offer. When it comes time to buy they have several versions ranging in price. The cheapest is $50, which isn't too bad at all. You can always upgrade your version to a higher version later on.

I'm sure you've heard of ProTools. You've also got Reason, Ableton Live, Cubase and a few others.





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