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The Mastering Show #63 - Mastering (and mixing) for broadcast - with Dallas Taylor
Usually on the show we’re talking about mastering music for CD, download and streaming, but there’s another important final destination for the audio…
6 years, 11 months ago
The Mastering Show #62 - How to master audio that SURVIVES streaming
Everything gets streamed these days, and almost all streaming platforms use lossy data encoding: mp3, AAC, OGG etc (OMG!) And these lossy codecs do …
7 years ago
The Mastering Show # 61 - Learn without listening
You might argue that reading about audio is like dancing about architecture. Or something. But you’d be wrong! In these days of podcasts and YouTube …
7 years ago
The Mastering Show #60 - The loudness technique you need to start using TODAY
This show is short & sweet - but essential listening if you’re interested in getting better results with online loudness - and balanced, musical dyna…
7 years, 2 months ago
The Mastering Show #59 - More questions answered (Q&A 6)
It’s been a while since we had a Q&A episode, so - here it is ! In this show we discuss: * Can a spectrum analyser make up for poor monitoring ? * …
7 years, 3 months ago
The Mastering Show # 58 - Mud or magic ? Managing the mids
We’ve all heard it - “the music is in the mid-range”. But what does that mean, exactly ? And if it’s true, is there anything we can do about it in ma…
7 years, 4 months ago
The Mastering Show #57 - With great power…
…comes great responsibility. And mastering engineers need to accept that. If you take on the challenge of mastering someone’s music, you also accept …
7 years, 5 months ago
The Mastering Show #56 - Mastering Crappy Mixes
It’s a question we get all the time: what do you do when the mixes you receive are more… “challenged" than you might ideally like ? How much can you …
7 years, 6 months ago
The Mastering Show #55 - How Bright Is Too Bright?
Everyone wants that glorious, sweet, silky-smooth top end in their masters - but how do you get it ? How do you stop things sounding harsh, tinny and…
7 years, 7 months ago
The Mastering Show #54 - When Normalization Goes Wrong
As you know, we think normalization is a Good Thing. But many people disagree. And often that’s because it’s not perfect yet - not by a long shot. In…
7 years, 8 months ago