"I mix and master". Are you being duped?
You've heard the expression, "wearing multiple hats", right? The last time you shopped for a recording studio, do you recall the number...
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Brian Murphree
- Aug 21
- 5 min
Why Do Movie Theaters Yell At Me?
Let me ask. When you visit a local theater, especially an IMAX or a Dolby Atmos theater, have you ever questioned whether real-life...
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Brian Murphree
- Jan 7, 2022
- 8 min
Dolby Atmos - My Predictions
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...
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Brian Murphree
- Oct 9, 2021
- 7 min
Don't fear the bass
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...
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Brian Murphree
- Jul 2, 2021
- 5 min
Mastering Hip-Hop for Radio
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...
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Brian Murphree
- Apr 18, 2021
- 7 min
The Loudness Wars and what I've learned
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...
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Brian Murphree
- Jan 13, 2021
- 9 min
When is my mix ready for Mastering?
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...
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Brian Murphree
- Dec 24, 2020
- 6 min
Stem mastering is just fine
I've read and heard a significant number of opinions from mastering engineers on whether stem mastering is good or bad. Some debate that...
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Brian Murphree
- Nov 27, 2020
- 8 min
Why I'm Hybrid
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...
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Brian Murphree
- Nov 18, 2020
- 5 min
Why Format Choices?
Many mastering studios don't really dive headfirst into formats of the audio you're about to have mastered. Many times they simply master...
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Brian Murphree
- Aug 4, 2020
- 5 min
Mind if I rave about headphones for a minute?
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...
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Brian Murphree
- Feb 9, 2020
- 5 min
The Complexity of Vinyl
While vinyl has been lauded as perhaps one the best-sounding mediums on the market, fleshing out some avid vinyl saviors who will refuse...
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Brian Murphree
- Jan 26, 2020
- 3 min
HG-2: Hardware or Plug-in?
One of my previous Facebook posts stirred a decent amount of curiosity. Readers noticed the Black Box HG-2 in my desk, and immediately...
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Brian Murphree
- Jan 9, 2020
- 9 min
Sonarworks - Get better results
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...
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Brian Murphree
- Jan 8, 2020
- 3 min
Tale of Two Formats
It's not immediately obvious to most artists that when you submit your albums to Aggregator services, such as CD Baby and TuneCore that...
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Brian Murphree
- Jan 5, 2020
- 5 min
Tale of Two Eggs
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...
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