Lurssen Mastering's Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen share five essential tips for mixing and mastering on headphones.

From headphone calibration and translation to mono compatibility and monitoring best practices, they explain how to achieve more accurate mixes anywhere using ARC ON•EAR.

What you'll learn:

• Make more accurate headphone mix decisions
• Improve mix translation across playback systems
• Understand stereo, mono, and phantom center
• Build confidence with calibrated headphone monitoring
• Create better mixes wherever you work

That's where the ARC ON•EAR comes in. It will balance those out so you make accurate decisions.

You have access to a full frequency spectrum that will help you get that music over the finish line.

Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen are both GRAMMY-winning mastering engineers at Lurssen Mastering. This bonus lesson is from their How to Master Your Music tutorial, a 10-part mastering course covering the complete workflow, professional techniques, and practical tools used to create release-ready masters with confidence.

ARC ON•EAR delivers the precision, depth, and trust of a real control room — inside your headphones. For the first time, you can mix, master, and produce with total confidence — anywhere.