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Win a free place on the Home Mastering Masterclass course ! 12 Aug 2013 | 03:44 pm
The next Home Mastering Masterclass course starts this Friday, the 16th August – and you could win a free place ! Firstly here’s a short video trailer for the course to tell you what it’s all about: ...
Using the TT Meter in Logic X – and running 32-bit plugins in 64-bit hosts 9 Aug 2013 | 09:18 pm
More and more people are writing to ask if it’s possible to use 32-bit plugins in Logic X and other 64-bit DAWs, especially the TT Meter. And, launching the Home Mastering Masterclass today, I realis...
How to be a mastering engineer 1 Aug 2013 | 04:42 am
What makes a mastering engineer ? I can understand you’d be confused. I’ve written about this before, here and here – but there’s something deeper, more fundamental going on. I’m a professional mast...
Clipping – what is it, and what does it sound like ? 29 Jul 2013 | 03:10 pm
Clipping. Analogue versus digital ? Blatant fault or creative decision ? Better or worse than limiting ? Some engineers deliberately clip their analogue gear or analogue-to-digital converters, some ...
This stuff really works ! 18 Jul 2013 | 05:53 pm
Something really fantastic has started happening. I get a lot of flack for all the loudness war stuff I post, and concerns that giving people “rules of thumb” for music production (with the TT Meter ...
If you can’t hear it, it doesn’t matter, right ? WRONG 12 Jul 2013 | 05:21 pm
If you can’t hear the difference, it doesn’t matter, right ? WRONG. Have you ever said something like this ? “People will only ever listen to the mp3, so it doesn’t matter” “I can’t hear any disto...
Zane Lowe’s ‘Loud Wars’ Documentary on BBC Radio 1 18 Jun 2013 | 04:42 am
I’ve just finished listening to BBC Radio 1′s Loud Wars documentary – thanks to Phil Wilks for the heads-up ! They covered a lot of ground in the hour-long show, and presented a pretty balanced view...
Daft Punk: CD versus vinyl comparison video 14 Jun 2013 | 06:52 pm
Everyone agrees that Daft Punk’s new album sounds great – even the digital versions have avoided the loudness war trap in comparison to most other releases these days.. There’s a little more debate ...
Announcing: Home Mastering EQ 14 Jun 2013 | 03:50 pm
It’s finally here ! I’ve said it before – Mastering is simple. Level, EQ, compression and limiting – that’s 90% of the work, right there ! The key is knowing how to use those tools to get the result...
An interview with Daft Punk’s mastering engineer – English translation 9 Jun 2013 | 06:43 pm
My last post was a mastering analysis of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories. Soon after writing it, I discovered the video above with Antoine Chabert (“Chab”), who mastered the album at Translab studi...
