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 ? * Is allowing peak levels up to -0.1 wrong ? * Do s...
15 Feb 201948min
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 mastering ? We’ve talked about bass and high freque...
15 Jan 201956min
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 a huge amount of responsibility for that music, an...
7 Des 20181h 26min
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 fix in mastering if you really need to, and how muc...
12 Nov 201850min
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 brittle ? And even if the high frequencies do soun...
12 Okt 20181h 8min
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 this episode we explain some of the quirks, bugs a...
23 Sep 201848min
The Mastering Show #53 - Fear Of Bass
We all want great low end - deep, fat, solid and punchy. But it can be one of the hardest things to get right - especially knowing how much of it is needed. Too much bass can sound boomy, flabby, mudd...
4 Jul 201859min
The Mastering Show #52 - DON'T aim for LUFS targets online
All the online streaming services play music back at roughly -14 LUFS, so that’s the level we should aim for when we’re mastering, right ? Wrong. That may sound strange, given how much we’ve talked a...
8 Jun 201833min
