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This is the show where we cover all aspects of mastering. If you're interested in mastering, want to learn how to get better results mastering your own music, or even want to be a mastering...
More and more people are choosing to get vinyl copies of their music made one at a time, rather than having hundreds of copies pressed at on...
I see it every day: “The Loudness Wars are over - loud won. Get over it” And it’s easy to see why. The average mainstream release hits -8 LU...
It was the Grammys this week - you can't have missed it ! And somewhere along the way I saw an article by Ian Vargo assessing the loudness a...
Getting your music "synced" for licensing in TV, movies or ads can be an amazing opportunity for indie musicians to make money and gain expo...
This started out as a Q&A episode, but one way or another there turned out to be a real theme to many of the questions, namely - how do you...
Translation is one of the main goals of mastering - make the music sound great on any platform, and any delivery format. But how is that pos...
Brian Eno is probably the musician, producer and artist who has had the single biggest influence on my music taste and enjoyment over the ye...
I wanted to do something a little different to mark the 100th episode, but wasn't sure what. I was wondering about interviewing myself but t...
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 bee...
'Stem mastering' has provoked a ton of debate recently, with people claiming it crosses the line between mixing and mastering, interferes wi...
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 k...
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...
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...
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 vi...
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...
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 L...
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...
Everyone is talking about inter-sample peaks and True Peak limiters - or in fact it’s more accurate to say they’re arguing about whether ISP...
If you’re not already listening to Matt Boudreau’s fantastic podcast Working Class Audio, you need to start now ! Matt is a highly respected...
DJs get a lot of flak, especially about loudness. There’s a deep-seated belief that “loud” masters are still a requirement for club music, a...
It’s amazing what mastering can achieve - but it’s also amazing how many things can influence the results we get right from the recording st...
As mastering plugins become more sophisticated and more technical, there’s an interesting trend towards making the interfaces… less so. As w...
You’ve probably heard of Eric Sarafin, aka Mixerman, but have you heard what he has to say about mastering ? As always it’s entertaining, po...
This is huge - Apple have finally started using LUFS for their loudness normalisation, which means all the major streaming services now use...
In this episode we tackle one of the biggest challenges in modern mastering - the demand for super-loud masters in the dance & EDM genres. O...
Dolby Atmos has moved the goalposts for loudness, all the way down to -18 LUFS. This was one of the main topics of conversation for this yea...
Apple’s announcement of Dolby Atmos support has caused an explosion of interest in the format - after all, it means almost any iOS user can...
Time for another Q&A show! Thanks for all your comments, reviews and questions, please keep them coming. In this episode we tackle: * Are to...
What is non-linear processing, and why does it matter? In this episode we dive deep into the topic with our guest Dan Worrall, and talk abou...
The Audio Engineering Society has just released new recommendations for the loudness levels streaming services should distribute their audio...
We round up a few different “loudness news” topics this episode, including: * Why Spotify have removed their limiter * But when they haven’t...
People are interested in mastering for vinyl again - and stereo bass is a big problem, right? You should always mono it to avoid problems? W...
It’s either the most powerful mastering technique known to man, or it isn’t really mastering at all, depending who you ask. Some people love...
It’s happening. Spotify are switching to using LUFS for their loudness normalization. If you’re thinking ‘I thought they already used it', t...
Let’s face it, LUFS don’t work. No-one understands them, when you set a load of different songs to -14 LUFS they all sound a different loudn...
This is so good it just needed it’s own episode. It’s a groundbreaking, unique new way to make music online - and everyone should try it out...
Real-time remote audio work IS possible - with surprising quality and flexibility ! In this show I’ll describe techniques and strategies to...
Our guest this episode is LA mastering engineer John Greenham who just won a Grammy for his work on Billie Eilish’s album. We talk to him ab...
We talk on this show about making a master sound great all the time - but what does that mean ? How can you tell the difference between a go...
I often get asked if it’s possible to restore dynamics to a heavily limited, clipped or compressed source, to achieve a more dynamic master....
People are talking about minus 14 LUFS loudness more and more these days, but why ? What does this number mean, where does it come from, and...
Time for another Q&A episode ! As always you’ve been asking great questions, so in this episode we discuss: * Why Ian talks too much * How d...
Can you make money from mastering ? And if so, how ? If you’re already charging people for your work, how can you be more effective and prod...
There’s been lots of buzz and discussion about aliasing online recently, and lots of confusion, too. Is it a flaw in the whole idea of digit...
Usually on the show we’re talking about mastering music for CD, download and streaming, but there’s another important final destination for...
Everything gets streamed these days, and almost all streaming platforms use lossy data encoding: mp3, AAC, OGG etc (OMG!) And these lossy co...
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...
This show is short & sweet - but essential listening if you’re interested in getting better results with online loudness - and balanced, mus...
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 monitori...
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...