The Audiophiliac went to New York's top mastering house, Sterling Sound, to discuss the state of the art with mastering engineer Ryan Smith. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also ...

Mastering engineer Dave McNair unravels some of the mysteries of how he makes music sound good over iTunes and MP3s played over $20 computer speakers. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg ...

Suddenly, everyone can master their own music. I would worry that it would produce one generic master sound but the labels do a pretty "good" job of making that happen right now. I’ve been really ...

MASTERING WEEK: Before you start piling the plugins onto your latest project’s master channel, you need to understand exactly what ‘mastering’ is. Broadly put, it’s both the final stage in the ...

Online platform LANDR uses cloud-based software to help both major labels and bedroom artists smooth out their tunes. By Harley Brown As Gwen Stefani prepared to debut the video for her single “Make ...

Audio mastering is the process of taking audio mixes and preparing them for their best presentation to the world. It is a process that involves tremendous technical knowledge of the audio path and all ...

SoundCloud have started a new partnership with Dolby to offer its users ‘algorithmic audio mastering’ technology for just $4.99 (£4). The new ‘Mastering on SoundCloud’ service is aiming to sit in ...

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 ...