Mastering a track is the critical final stage in music production before release. The purpose of mastering is to make sure your song sounds as good as possible across a whole host of different systems and media formats (radio, CD, MP3, vinyl, etc.).
Album mastering makes sure the different tracks in an album sound sonically similar and provides consistency.
Recording your own sounds at home can really make your tracks unique, as if everyone is using the same samples from the same packs, it stands to reason there are going to be similarities in the finished tracks, right?
But how do we go about recording sounds at home (properly)? Do we need to spend a lot of money on a decent microphone and acoustic treatment? Perhaps not…
In the video below, I go through how to make Future Bass chords like Flume, using only the native plugins from within Ableton Live.
I explain the music theory behind the chord progression, and then go into the sound design of those big, sweeping synth chords.