Free Mastering Preset

The Free Mastering Preset is a professionally crafted mastering chain designed to help you finalize your mix with clarity, volume, and polish—without needing expensive plugins or advanced mastering knowledge. It’s built entirely using stock plugins from your DAW and delivers a clean, loud, and balanced sound with just a few clicks.

The preset is available for all major DAWs, including FL Studio, Logic Pro X, Ableton Live, Pro Tools, and Studio One. You’ll choose your DAW at checkout, and the version you download will be optimized specifically for that platform’s built-in effects. There’s no need to purchase any third-party software to use it.

Once applied to your master channel, the preset enhances your overall mix by applying EQ, multiband compression, saturation, stereo widening, and limiting. It helps bring your track up to commercial loudness standards while maintaining clarity and dynamic balance. The result is a more polished, professional-sounding final product ready for streaming or release.

Yes, 100% free. There are no hidden fees, subscriptions, or paywalls. It’s a gift from Cedar Sound Studios to help you level up your sound instantly. It’s a perfect way to test the quality and simplicity of their products without spending a dime.

Not at all. The preset is designed to be beginner-friendly and works right out of the box. Just drop it on your master channel, make a few light tweaks if needed, and you’re done. It's a great way to get familiar with what mastering actually does—without getting lost in technical settings.

Yes, everything is fully customizable once it’s loaded into your DAW. If you want more bass, less high-end, tighter compression, or a different stereo image, you can easily tweak the settings to your liking. Think of it as a starting point that saves time, but still gives you full creative control.

Yes, one of the key goals of mastering is to bring your track up to a competitive loudness level without clipping or distorting the mix. This preset includes a stock limiter and gain staging that pushes your track to a professionally loud level while preserving clarity.

While it’s always best to master a well-balanced mix, the preset can still help enhance and clean up a slightly rough mix. It won’t fix major mixing mistakes, but it can bring cohesion, volume, and polish to tracks that are close but not quite there yet.

Nope. This mastering preset is built entirely with stock plugins from your DAW. That means you don’t need Ozone, FabFilter, Waves, or anything else. Everything you need is already included in your software, making it perfect for producers on a budget.

Yes, it’s designed to be genre-neutral and works well on hip-hop, pop, electronic, indie, R&B, and more. It’s versatile enough to give clarity and punch to any style of music, and if you need to make small genre-specific tweaks, the preset gives you the flexibility to do that.