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
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 Dec 20181h 26min
