The supposedly secret dark art of mastering is actually nothing of the sort; it’s just good ol’ practice and experience. A mastering engineer learns how listen to the material in a certain way, to ...

There is more work to a song than just production. Completing a recording of a track isn’t the final step to releasing it. Mixing and mastering engineering are necessary processes for finalizing a ...

PLUGIN WEEK 2023: In an ideal world, we’d all send our mixes off to Abbey Road and have their ‘golden ears’ take a listen, adjust frequencies, add compression, and limit our mix through a set of ...

It was just a stray remark at the end of a guitar lesson last fall. My teacher is a veteran musician whose band has had both major label and indie record deals, and he loves the analog, the human, the ...

The last step in audio production is being taken over by machines The last step in audio production is being taken over by machines Making music is one of the most human things we do, but in recent ...

According to many Metallica devotees, the official version of the band’s 2008 record Death Magnetic is not the one worth listening to. Upon the album’s release, fan forums exploded in disgust, choked ...

Every now and then an AV product comes along that has the power to potentially revolutionise the entertainment world. Usually we’d be talking in such instances about a consumer product; a TV, a ...

The most visible face of Capitol Studios, 30-year veteran Paula Salvatore, a VP, is also described as taking on on a different, as-yet unrevealed role. The mastering department at the famed Capitol ...