Mastering

A producer entrusted a track to Mr. Hartman, a trainer, mastering engineer, and co-manager of a label, for mastering. To assess the quality of the work, I'm offering a blind listen of two versions: one mastered by Mr. Hartman and the other by White Mastering.

This exercise will allow you to compare the two approaches and judge for yourself the expertise of White Mastering. I have anonymized the versions so as not to influence you. In your opinion, what is the mastering done by the training engineer? And what is the mastering of White Mastering?

A third excerpt is also available: this is the unmastered track. This will allow you to better measure the impact of mastering on the final result.

For copyright reasons, each clip is limited to 78 seconds.

Mastering plugins used: DMG Audio, Tokyo Dawn Labs, Tone projects, FabFilter bundle.