Episodes

Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
If you can understand the subtle differences of dynamic compression, you'll make better mastering decisions, prevent yourself chasing your tail in mastering and ultimately have better sounding masters
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Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
One of our prime responsibilities in mastering is to produce masters that streams faithfully and doesn’t sound wildly different when it leaves your studio.
Unfortunately, most people miss the “small” details and nuance when it comes to this topic.
So I’m going to one-by-one discuss in context from what I believe are the most important aspects to focus on when producing masters for streaming and socials.
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Monday Aug 12, 2024
Monday Aug 12, 2024
By following these techniques on every master, you achieve objective improvements which is how you get the best sounding masters
Unfortunately, most people skip these steps, and spend countless hours chasing their tail doing things the hard way.
Level matching and the different types of level matching
Gain staging processors and the different types of gain staging processors
Monitoring the delta and what to listen for.
Let’s dive in!
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Friday Aug 09, 2024
Friday Aug 09, 2024
In a world of “quick business hacks” I'm going to walk through 3 tasks that have been slow, consistent and a necessity to the growth of my studio. And this approach will be solely focused on long-term success not quick fast hacks.
If you master these 3 tasks, you'll ensure you’re covering the based for a health studio business.
Unfortunately, most people skip consistent focus on these arenas in lieu of the “quick cash grab”
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Thursday Aug 08, 2024
Thursday Aug 08, 2024
Today I’m going to share with you a listening exercise i’ve been doing at the start of each mastering session to prime and calibrate my ears.
By recognising particular noise curves and variations of them, you’ll strengthen your ability to identify and recognise anomalies in passages of audio.
Unfortunately I’ve never done exercises like this before and aural training is something we often neglect.
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Wednesday Aug 07, 2024
Wednesday Aug 07, 2024
By knowing what to listen for, you can objectively assess mixes before mastering, which is how you ensure you get the best sounding records
Unfortunately, most people listen blindly without a checklist and often go back having missed things that otherwise might have been picked up if they had a consistent formula.
This list is broken up into the following
Audible distortion / artefacts
Low end translation
Energy balance
Mid range balance
Tonal Shape
Dynamic composition
Stereo field
Sibilance
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Tuesday Aug 06, 2024
Tuesday Aug 06, 2024
Unfortunately, 808’s are hard because it’s sub frequencies are long waveforms both addative and subtractive in the synthesis of the 808 and the way it interacts with other elements.
But by following this my 808s always sound massive by;
setting consistent levels
managing tone
controlling it’s interaction with the mix
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Monday Aug 05, 2024
Monday Aug 05, 2024
Today on my calendar, I have 3 mixes with notes to update. This is squeezed in alongside a fully booked schedule and I’d be lying if I didn’t say this can be overwhelming.
But there are a few things I’ve learnt which helps me meet revision requests, keep things organised, as well as satisfy my clients needs.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t always this easy, because a busy schedule, with ego, and the stresses of visiting a project you otherwise thought should be finished isn’t always a recipe for a clear mindset.
So I’m going to address what I think are the biggest challenges when it comes to mix revisions.
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Saturday Aug 03, 2024
Saturday Aug 03, 2024
I've got a vinyl mastering project lined up to work through today and it’s always fun to revisit some of the practical considerations we make in the process.
I’ll detail simple steps, that if you follow will make your cutting engineers life a breeze.
Unfortunately, most people are copy-cutting dribs and drabs of advice on vinyl mastering blindly without context.
So i’ll be sure to share proven tactics that help achieve great sounding masters for vinyl and those will be;
How we consider side lengths and sequencing
Managing levels between tracks
Excursion
Width
Velocity
Assembly of files
References and documenting
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