Photo by Veronica Benavides on Unsplash First of all, what IS it? Let me start with this: We've been listening to audio from two speakers...

Photo by Guillaume Meurice from Pexels Every mix engineer at some point will question whether the bass (low-end) of the mix will have the...

What an industry Hip-Hop has created! More and more awesome Hip-Hop has been coming out, and I love mastering it. I don't see much end in...

The first time I listened to Rush's Vapor Trails in 2002, it was perceptively suspicious to me that Rush was trying answer a criticism...

It was time for me to blog about this. While I do have some information regarding mix-readiness in the FAQ, those are basic, or rather...

I've read and heard a significant number of opinions from mastering engineers on whether stem mastering is good or bad. Some debate that...

Why do you use a hybrid mastering chain? The answer isn't simple, and there's a real variance on exactly what each hybrid chain mastering...

Many mastering studios don't really dive headfirst into formats of the audio you're about to have mastered. Many times they simply master...

Plug your ears, you studio monitor lunatics! Or maybe I'm the lunatic, and you're the norm. I've been mastering on and off for about 15...

While vinyl has been lauded as perhaps one the best-sounding mediums on the market, fleshing out some avid vinyl saviors who will refuse...

One of my previous Facebook posts stirred a decent amount of curiosity. Readers noticed the Black Box HG-2 in my desk, and immediately...

If you've dealt with room acoustics, and geeked out about the subject as much as I have, you'll still be frustrated by every single...

It's not immediately obvious to most artists that when you submit your albums to Aggregator services, such as CD Baby and TuneCore that...

For over a decade I've been loving a magical set of 1989 Polk Audio 2.3TL speakers, originally powered by a pair of Sunfire-300 (Bob...