After having worked on literally hundreds of platinum and gold records and mastered projects that have been nominated for scores of Grammys, Bob Ludwig certainly stands among the giants in the mastering business. After leaving New York City to open his own Gateway Mastering in Portland, Maine in 1993, Bob proved that you can still […]
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Los Angeles is lucky in that there’s a number of iconic recording studios that were built decades ago that still exist and thrive today. United Recording (formerly Oceanway), East West (formerly Cello), The Record Plant, and Henson Studios (formerly A&M) are just a few that remain busy serving high-end music clients, movie soundtracks, and just […]
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One of the things that every mixer struggles with is getting the low end right. Yes, even the A-list guys take their time working with the bottom. That’s because if you get it wrong, the mix will sound wimpy or bloated. Get it right and everyone smiles. Bassroom, the new plugin from Mastering The Mix, […]
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My guest on the podcast this week is Rick Goetz, who has been a a major label A&R exec, a music supervisor, an artist manager, a bass player, and record label owner. His label stints include Lava/Atlantic, Elektra, and EMI, where he’s worked with artists that include Kid Rock, Matchbox 20 and Sarah Brightman, and on television shows […]
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I’m a big fan of American Airlines and now fly it exclusively. Part of that is because I’m pretty high up on their loyalty platform since I fly so much these days, and I really love their lounges. The other part of that they’re usually on-time and there are few hassles. Although I no longer […]
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Looking back at the analog days, mixing level requirements seemed so easy. You aimed for 0 on the VU meter and didn’t worry too much if it bounced over. Of course, under the hood 0VU could actually be calibrated to different levels, but we usually didn’t concern ourselves too much with that as long as […]
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Music creation platform Bandlab continues to grow its empire, adding two iconic British music magazines – NME and Uncut from UK publisher TI Media. The company is branching into all areas of the music business, from cloud music to DAW software to musical instruments and retail to social media and now, print magazines. Bandlab Technologies, which is […]
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One of the things about mixing is that we frequently find that there’s not enough energy of one or several bands of the frequency spectrum. Mixers have been trying to find the right processor to add some of what’s missing back in for decades now with varying levels of success. Enter the excellent Sugar plugin […]
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My guest on the podcast this week is David Kalt, who launched the super popular gear site Reverb.com in 2013 after growing frustrated with the process of buying and selling guitars on eBay. To get it started, David raised more than $47 million in funding from investors ranging from Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen and country star Brad Paisley […]
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When Sir Elton John hits the stage Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome for the first show of his farewell tour, the audience will be given a unique ability. Thanks to wearable tech from PEEX (PErfect EXperience) that ticketholders can rent, they’ll be able to give themselves a custom mix. The question is, is this really a good […]
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Through the years I’ve learned a lot about everything audio from some great teachers – wisdom that I’ve passed on in many of my books as well. One piece of acoustic info that seems to be taken as a fact industry-wide is that your listening experience can be greatly improved by isolating your speakers from […]
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There are a lot of things that are pretty loud. Being on stage or in the studio in the middle of a blast of feedback over your headphones or in-ears; playback during a crazy hip-hop session with the monitor control and subs on 10; standing next to the siren of a fire truck; the blast […]
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The right reverb sound is something that we take for granted when we have a good one available, and search endlessly for when we don’t. Many have called the sound of the chambers at Capitol Records as the best in the world, but unless you were mixing at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, it was beyond […]
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My guest on the podcast this week is Robert Siciliano, who started as a music recording engineer, but by almost a quirk of fate got a temp job at NBC that turned into a career. In the interview we talked about making the transition to postproduction, the turnaround time for an audio job, dealing with audio that isn’t […]
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Unless you were around back in the early 80s when the first harmonizer was introduced (the Eventide H910), you can’t appreciate what an impact it had on mixing. This was a device that did something that couldn’t been done before. It was hard to explain exactly what that was, but you knew it instantly when […]
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