Mastering engineer Dave McNair unravels some of the mysteries of how he makes music sound good over iTunes and MP3s played over $20 computer speakers. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg ...

The Audiophiliac interviews mastering engineer Dave McNair about who should get most of the credit for great sounding recordings, and his answer may surprise you. A lot of audiophiles believe that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in the noughties, such was the impact of the so-called 'loudness was' that they weren't just something that music technology ...

One of today's most in-demand producers is New York-based mastering engineer Emily Lazar, who stands to win Record of the Year for Sia's smash, "Chandelier." By Harley Brown Sia isn’t the only ...

Mastering engineer Emily Lazar listens back to a section of the song "Envelop Me" by the baroque pop band School is Cool. She's trying to make the main vocals stand out more. "We pick certain ...

In the first days of recorded music, mastering was a purely technical process. Early masters were often done without a second thought by the vinyl lathe operators themselves! Back then the only goal ...

Mastering music is the final stage before you release your songs to the world. You need to master every song you release – it improves the sound quality and increases the loudness to the level of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hailing from Mexico City and now based at New York's Sterling Sound, mastering engineer Idania Valencia has an impressive CV that ...

When it came to voting for this year’s Grammy winners, Randy Merrill had some especially hard choices in front of him. Generally, top nominees have no trouble selecting their own work, but in 2023, ...

NEW YORK — Bob Ludwig's role is at the finish line of an album, helping it sound as good as possible before it’s available to the masses. He has won 10 Grammys, including three consecutive wins for ...

Everyone who looks at the credits on a CD will have seen a line for "mastering." But like the "best boy" and "gaffer" credits at the end of a film, few people know what it really means. Oddly enough, ...