The Mastering Show #67 - Minus 14 LUFS - or NOT ?
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 why should you care ? In this episode we answer all these ...
15 Nov 201942min
The Mastering Show #66 - Good Questions
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 dynamic is too dynamic ? * Fade-outs - before or after co...
19 Sep 201937min
The Mastering Show #65 - Making money from mastering
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 productive ? Our guest in this episode is Graham Cochrane from ...
23 Aug 20191h 2min
The Mastering Show #64 - Aliasing - is it digital audio's Achilles Heel ?
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 digital audio ? Does it explain why analogue modelling plugins c...
22 Juli 201931min
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 we work on - broadcast. And the difference with b...
25 Juni 20191h 25min
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 a pretty remarkable result of preserving the quali...
29 Maj 201947min
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 it’s easy to forget how many great books there are ...
3 Maj 201944min
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 dynamics for your masters. In this episode Ian describ...
21 Mars 201920min
