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LOUDNESS CONTROL IN LOGIC PRO X

M ore than any other part of the music-production workflow, mastering seems to evolve and adapt dramatically. The reasons behind these fundamental shifts can be explained by both an evolution in music formats and more intriguingly, changes in peoples’ taste in respect to the perceived ‘sound’ of recorded music. In MusicTech’s lifetime, we’ve seen the fading out of the disc format and the rise of streaming and unexpected rebirth of vinyl, all largely in the last decade. Likewise, the so-called Loudness Wars seem to have passed, but have we really moved to an era of wide dynamic range, or do musicians still have a desire to push their music to the limits?

In this two-part Logic workshop, therefore, we want to take an in-depth and practical look at the state of mastering and how it fits into your Logic workflow. Rather than just explore mastering as

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