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Mastering (audio) Mastering is a form of audio post production which is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the Audio mixing (recorded music), final mix to a data storage device called a master recording, the source ...

, the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device, the master **

Stem mastering Stem-mixing is a method of mixing audio material based on creating groups of audio tracks called stems and processing them separately prior to combining them into a final master mix. Stems are also sometimes referred to as submixes, subgrou ...

, contains the same process as ordinary mastering but the individual audio tracks are grouped together into a few separated stems like drums, instruments, voices, etc. *

Bus mastering In computing, bus mastering is a feature supported by many bus architectures that enables a device connected to the bus to initiate direct memory access (DMA) transactions. It is also referred to as first-party DMA, in contrast with third-party ...

, a feature supported by many data bus architectures that enables a device connected to the bus to initiate transactions

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