I have great memories of Mastering in various studios around Europe, especially in the UK and NYC. You don’t need to be a technical wizard to enjoy music or to have an opinion on the Genre, it’s content, or it’s sound but to those of us battling to get music heard, develop artists and create something new, reliance on experience, our own or especially on others who work in other avenue’s within music has always been essential. That might seem a little simple in its analysis, but it’s so true. However, the basic outcome across all these are the same, and we just want the music to sound good. The technical requirements have required new solutions to challenges still being fought between the various “platforms” and different mediums. Over the years, the changes are well documented and evident as to our listing habits, from good old Vinyl to streaming with new software in particular ready to assault our ears. I can’t recall over my various years of being a recording engineer and producer how many times I’ve faced the same question, what is Mastering, and is it required? You would think the answers would be quite obvious and easy, however, as we all know that not really how the conversation ends. MASTERING FOR STREAMING SERVICES AND COMPRESSED FILE FORMATS

Transient designers and time-dependent processing.

Multiband processors: dynamic equalization.

Analyzing balance and phase correlation.SIGNAL FILTERING, DC OFFSET REMOVAL AND TIMBRAL CHANGES Direct to disc on wax and Bakelite discs.PRODUCTION, BACKGROUND HISTORY AND DEFINITION OF MASTERING

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