The Mastering Show #43 - The Christmas Episode
Something a bit different to celebrate the festive season this week - we invited a group of cool audio guests to join us on the show, and asked each of them to bring a “gift” to fill an imaginary "Chr...
22 Dec 201758min
The Mastering Show #42 - Man versus machine - automated mastering
Can robots really master our music ? Kenny Gioia set up poll on Facebook to see, asking people to choose between six different masters of the same song - three by humans (John Longley, an anonymous en...
24 Nov 20171h 23min
The Mastering Show #41 - The problem with loudness normalization - and TIDAL’s solution
This is huge. There’s a problem with loudness normalization, and TIDAL asked Eelco Grimm to find a solution for them. What he found in his research was unexpected and exciting. Eelco has been involve...
11 Nov 20171h 15min
The Mastering Show #40 - Your Questions Answered - Live
A Q&A episode with a twist - we recorded it live, with questions arriving all the time we were recording. We’ve added them all to the list for future episodes - here are the ones we had time to tack...
13 Okt 201755min
The Mastering Show #39 - Digital Gain Staging: what’s the point ?
Gain staging used to be a crucial consideration for analogue recording and mixing - but you’ll hear plenty of people saying it doesn’t really matter, in a modern digital audio workstation. And they ha...
3 Okt 201747min
The Mastering Show # 38 - If you can't hear it, does it really matter ?
If something is technically wrong but inaudible, is that a problem ? When is it OK to break the rules ? What is “audibility”, anyway ? Topics include: * If everyone else is listening is listening on...
19 Sep 201750min
The Mastering Show #37 - Does Gear Matter?
Gear: does it matter ? And if so, how much ? And if gear DOES matter, does it define your sound ? And how ? In this episode we’re joined by Mike Hillier to talk about the significance of gear in maste...
17 Juli 201742min
The Mastering Show #36 - Compression versus compression (and sponges)
In which Ian probably goes too far with his analogy explaining compression using sponges. And in which Jon describes the concept of “sloppage headroom” and inter-sample peaks, and in which we also dis...
5 Juli 201740min
