May 8, 2012
I’m getting more and more people asking me about the need to get a dedicated master made for vinyl releases – maybe because I’ve posted videos like the one above – for more details check this link:
Red Hot Chili Peppers – ‘I’m With You” vinyl sounds better than CD
But I’ve got news for you – you don’t need to. It’s a myth.
Apr 20, 2012
The time has come to let you know about something I’m really excited about – my new product, the Home Mastering Masterclass.
Probably the easiest way to tell you about it is to give you a sneak preview of the introduction video – so that’s what I’ve done ! Take a look at the video above, if you haven’t already – and you should be right up to speed.
The idea is to give you a set of “fly on the wall” screen-capture videos while I master a selection of songs on my home setup. They’re from a range of different genres – rock, pop, dance, metal, acoustic soundtrack and jazz, using a range of software packages and plugins, including the popular Ozone plugins by isotope, for example.
I’ll share exactly what I’m doing, how and why – and you’ll learn a mass of useful tools and techniques along the way.
Apr 16, 2012
People are listening to music on iPod earbuds, they’re listening to it on laptop speakers, they’re listening to it on mobile phone speakers.
So that’s what we should use to make our final mix and master decisions on, right ?
Make it sound good on what end users are listening to it on – the lowest common denominator. Simple, right ?
Wrong
Apr 9, 2012
Dither is one of the most widely misunderstood elements of the digital audio chain.
People don’t know what it is, they don’t know when to use it, and they don’t know how.
This post aims to fix that, and make it really simple. But before we get started though, let’s quickly answer a few of the questions.
Apr 1, 2012
Update – Check out the end of this post for an exclusive offer !
The TT Loudness Mater is no longer the only (or best) way to measure the dynamics of your music.
One of the most popular posts on this site has always been “How to avoid over-compressing your mix” – an introduction to using the TT meter, plus an introduction to the ideas of “dynamic range”, or “crest factor”.
Over the years since I wrote the post and have been promoting the meter, it’s come in for some criticism for the way that it calculates the DR measurements, and even the idea of measuring “loudness” or making recommendations about it at all.
But just in the last year, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has agreed official definitions of loudness measurement – the “loudness unit” (LU) and both short and long-term “loudness range” recommendations. These are now being adopted internationally as standards – and are even becoming law in the US as a means of regulating the loudness of adverts between programmes.
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