Music Mastering Masterclass: Loud, Clean, Streaming-Ready

Your mix sounds great. Your master sounds quiet.

Or thin. Or muddy. Or fine on your monitors and weirdly off in the car.

Mastering is the last step that takes a finished mix and makes it sound like a finished record — the kind that holds up next to commercial tracks on the same playlist.

This course is the complete mastering process, end to end.

Not theory. Not "general principles." The actual signal chain, in order, with the why behind every move — so you can apply it to your own tracks the moment the lesson ends.

What you'll be able to do by the end:

• Master a track from rough mix to streaming-ready export — confidently and repeatably

• Hit competitive loudness without crushing your dynamics or pumping your low end

• Use EQ, compression, multiband compression, limiting, stereo imaging, and harmonic exciters with real intent

• Translate your master so it sounds right on Spotify, earbuds, car speakers, club systems, and laptop speakers

• Handle Mid/Side processing — EQ and compression — without making your mix sound weird

• Export properly for streaming (dithering, true peak, target LUFS) so the platforms don't ruin your work

What's actually in here:

• The fundamentals. What mastering is, what it isn't, the loudness wars, genre considerations.

• The chain. EQ, compression, multiband, limiting — set up in the right order with the right purpose for each.

• The advanced moves. Stereo imaging, Mid/Side EQ and compression, upwards compression, harmonic exciters.

• The export. Dithering, rendering, true peak, LUFS targets for Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and SoundCloud.

• Mastering your own music — the specific traps when you're too close to the mix.

• Getting paid. How to take on mastering work for other artists if you want to.

Any DAW. Any genre.

I demo in Ableton Live, but every concept transfers cleanly to Logic, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Bitwig, Reaper — anything. The plugins are stock-style EQs, compressors, and limiters; whatever you already own will work.

Best known for electronic music, but the course is built for all genres. Mastering is mastering.

Why this course:

• The why, not just the how. You'll understand why a move works, so you can adapt when your track is different.

• Closed captions on every lesson.

• 30-day money-back guarantee. If it's not for you, get a refund. No questions.

• I answer every question posted in the class, within 24 hours. Not a TA. Me.

Who I am:

Hi, I'm Jay. Ph.D. in Music, tenured university professor, working composer, and an Ableton Certified Trainer. My production and theory courses have around a million students and a 4.7+ average rating.

Who this is for:

Producers, beatmakers, songwriters, and bedroom engineers who can finish a mix but can't make their masters sound competitive. Equally for self-released artists prepping for Spotify, and for anyone who wants to take on mastering work for other people.

Let's make your tracks sound like they belong on the playlist.

See you in Lesson 1. — Jay