Podcast Episodes

The Mastering Show #99 - Recording, mixing and mastering acoustic guitar (with Richard Durrant)

Stereo, mono, binaural or surround-sound ?

I've worked with this episode's guest in all these formats and more over the many years we've been working …

1 year ago

The Mastering Show #98 - Stem mastering, Dynamics and Dolby Atmos at Abbey Road (with Oli Morgan)

'Stem mastering' has provoked a ton of debate recently, with people claiming it crosses the line between mixing and mastering, interferes with the ar…

1 year, 2 months ago

The Mastering Show #97 - Should you learn mastering FIRST ?! (with Ken Scott)

The term “legend” gets thrown all the time in audio production circles, but my guest this episode really deserves it.

I’m sure you already know this …

1 year, 7 months ago

The Mastering Show #96 - Flippin' Clippin' !

We’ve been using “soft clipping" in mastering for over 20 years at this point, but it suddenly feels as if it’s all anyone is talking about ! New plu…

1 year, 8 months ago

The Mastering Show #95 - Loudness trends in 2024: should you follow them ? with Ian Stewart

The Billboard Top 50 global singles from the first half of 2024 have an average loudness of -8.3 LUFS

So that’s how loud we should be making our maste…

1 year, 9 months ago

2 cool things (and a special offer!)

2 cool things (and a special offer!) by Ian Shepherd

1 year, 10 months ago

The Mastering Show #94 -The truth about vinyl (with Scott Hull)

People are always asking me about mastering for vinyl, and I’m happy to try and help based on the experience I have. I don’t actually cut vinyl mysel…

1 year, 10 months ago

The Mastering Show #93 - Do you NEED to be mastering loud ?

I’m always arguing for balanced dynamics rather than loudness for it’s own sake, but some people have a different opinion - high loudness is importan…

1 year, 11 months ago

The Mastering Show #92 - These are not the LUFS you are looking for

You can't go a day without someone telling you how loud your music should be, these days.

"Everything has to be -8 LUFS"

"EDM has to be -6 LUFS or loud…

2 years, 3 months ago

The Mastering Show # 91 - Mixing and mastering music for the movies with Alan Meyerson

It’s virtually impossible that you haven’t heard music of some kind mixed by Alan Meyerson by this point - he’s one of the most prolific and successf…

2 years, 5 months ago