I was wondering, when you go through the mastering process, do you master it as a stereo track? I'm new to this and was wondering about the final tweeking, EQ,compressing and limiting.
Exceptions being when you master from "stems" which are submixes. For example, a separate mix of the vocals, drums, etc. These are nice in cases where you may want to tweak vocal levels,etc, during mastering as mastering can change a mix in some cases making some tracks louder or softer than originally intended.