# The Ferment Handbook

> How to make a reel well — sound, light, cutting, pacing. About the
> craft, not about any one app. Every entry is served as plain Markdown.

- [Sound for reels](https://ferment.run/handbook/sound-for-reels.md) — Why a reel sounds thin on a phone, and the order of operations that fixes it.
- [Fat, punchy, loud — pick three](https://ferment.run/handbook/fat-punchy-loud.md) — What twenty tracks taught us about mastering for the feed — why compressors make quiet, where the blow-up hides, and the order that wins.

Human version: https://ferment.run/handbook · Support: support@ferment.run