This week I’ve mastered a bunch of tracks in different genres and they all shared similar problems, there where energy build ups that the artist or mix engineer probably didn’t hear or thought sound fat. I tried to explain the effect of this in mastering and how to use a VU meter to avoid the situation but I didn’t manage to explain it properly, But Leon Zervos at 301 studios manage to do it proper in this article so I’ll just quit trying:
