Mastering tips

Audiotuts has a short little article on mastering.
The basic gist is to apply compression, EQ and limiting.

The tutorial takes place in Logic and so is a reasonable advert for the plugins that come packaged with Logic and shows that its possibel to get good results yourself.

Its worth bearing in mind that there are reasons why mastering engineers spend a long time perfecting their art! If you really want your track to sound good its worth getting a professional to do your mastering...

A good book on mastering is Mastering Audio by Bob Katz

Bob Katz on Mastering

Electronic Musician has an interview with the mastering engineer Bob Katz, author of "Mastering Audio: The art and the science"

In the interview Bob discusses various mastering-related issues such as advice for artists/recordists bringing their products in for mastering, mastering techniques (the use of compressors, filters, EQ, M-S, etc...) and the "loudness race".