Mastering: Hints & Tips

Advice can be found in an Adobe Knowledgebase article -  click here to read it. That article seems to have been taken from the former Syntrillium site and is a little out of date in places. It covers:

Sample rate/bit rate
Pre-dynamic EQ
Limiting/ceiling
Stereo expansion
Post-dynamic EQ
Normalizing
Converting back to 16-bit, 44100, Stereo
Saving as Windows PCM Wave
Using the CD burning application
Burn speed

Also, see the guides at http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/ozoneguide.html which you may find helpful. We used to mention the StudioCovers guides as well in this context, but they appear to have gone...