Give your mastering engineer headroom and dynamics to help them give you the best sounding masters they can. This image is from a track of a Latin album I was to start mastering last week but, having checked through the tracks which were limited by around 6dB at a guess Read more…
What does a brick have to do with mastering? Yesterday, I had a quick chat on Twitter with Andy Wilson, mixing & mastering engineer at Masterdisk in NYC, about how I’d asked for new mixes for a Latin album I was to be mastering today as the original mixes were Read more…
Eron Falbo’s song Beat The Drums now has a cool video! Having mastered this track, which was mixed and produced by Laurie Grandi, it’s great to see it now with the video I’d heard was in production. SINGER – Eron Falbo BACKING VOCALS – The Venusians: Joanna Shiel, Supapij Xoomsai Read more…
Before my work experience bod Ant left last week we managed to slap some eletric guitar into the Mac so I could create an energetic orchestral track with it. The Depths Of Deception is the end result – hope you like it! Well done to Ant for his guitar playing. Read more…
A null test is a simple check to see if one track is a perfect digital copy of the original. This requires lining up, sample accurate, the original and copy on two separate tracks and reversing the polarity of one track. On playback, with both tracks mixed together and at Read more…
Thoroughly enjoyed listening to the talents of Maurizio Parascandolo and his band on SoundCloud last night and this morning. The feel and performances just hit the spot for me. Have a listen and see what you think! Playing with Maurizio are Andrea Cerè (Double Bass & Electric Bass), Stefano Bergamini Read more…
I’ve had an excellent week with having Ant in the studio for his work experience. We’ve been able to do a variety of jobs to give him an idea of what music studio work can involve. Ant has had a full introduction to the studio environment, the room treatment, and Read more…
Ant is with me in the studio on work experience – work? 🙂 – this week and today we started recording a track that he’s putting together based around his main instrument, the guitar. This little video is of him practising the main chord progression on his acoustic earlier today. Read more…
The free TEDTalks always provide stimulating and wonderful videos from the TED conferences and this one, Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong, is a great example. It’s an amazing accomplishment that so many people who have never met can submit their performances to be compiled into a wonderful Read more…
The Herman Miller Aeron chair can be found in many studios across the world and I have been using one in my studio for about the last eight years. Unfortunately, the right arm of my beloved Aeron snapped off (I hasten to add that it probably didn’t like my weight Read more…