BROADCAST PROCESSING VS MASTERING.
Mastering finishes a track for distribution. Broadcast processing happens in the delivery chain.
Mastering works on one specific track: tonal balance, peaks, final level and delivery files.
Broadcast processing works on a program that keeps changing. It adjusts level and dynamics across music, speech and transitions.
A finished master can therefore feel different on radio. BROADCAST! applies that second delivery colour to your file and lets you hear it in A/B before buying.
Mastering makes its decisions for one track. A broadcast chain keeps reacting during playback: a quiet verse, a dense chorus and a transition do not hit the processing in the same way.
That continuous reaction is why two files with similar measured level can take on a different sense of presence once they move through the air chain.
Mastering belongs to the delivered file. Broadcast processing belongs to what happens next in the chain: two different moments, with different decisions.
That difference is easiest to hear around quiet intros, dense choruses and transitions between sections.
FM CHAIN. MASTERING. A/B.
Level, dynamics, transmission and a same-excerpt comparison.