What you need to do isn't really mastering. The background needs to fit a certain niche and is 'pre-mastering' really. You want the track to sound as good as it can on the system it will be played on, and in the context of the finished product. . Then the mastering would occur as the final step, including the vocal narration. Zoom may have called it a mastering preset, maybe even just to save space...

Many manufacturers, if you know the model, have a lot of those preset settings included in the manual. It may be in a format you are not used to, but it is sometimes there in all the MIDI information near the back. If you know the model, it *may* be possible to see what settings they were using, then at least have an idea of a starting point to emulate.

Last edited by rharv; 02/17/11 06:55 PM.
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