Mastering - Before or After Exporting to iTunes?

Hello Experts ...
I read on another site that you should drag your exported song from iTunes back into Garageband to do the final mastering ... here is the quote ...
"You can certainly use GarageBand for producing a good master. It has the processing tools available to do the job well. Make sure you have exported your project to iTunes, and dragged it back into GB as a stereo track. Listen to the track as a whole - the sound of the track, not the individual parts and the balance between them."
Is this correct? I though that the Master Track selections that you chose before exporting was the mastering step ...??

One reason people may suggest exporting to itunes and is that GB is limited in the number of effects you can apply per track (2) and just one on the master track.
So say you want to run an eq, compressor, reverb all on the master. You can do it with the GB presets and a few plugins but it as great a GB is, its just not that flexible in this way. I guess this is where Apple teases you and tries to make you **** after Logic.
If you are doing type of thing often you may want to consider another application for mastering, ie Peak LE ($99) or Peak Pro ($599) , Amadeus Pro ($40) or Logic Express. If not stick with GB and put up with a few rounds of exporting and importing
Good luck
Geoff
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