Feb 43 minMastering To Reach A Specific LUFS Loudness: Yay or Nay?This one keeps coming up very often: “what numbers should I be shooting at when it comes to the loudness of my mixes (and self-masters)?...
Aug 26, 20203 minSet Yourself Up For Success In The StudioBudding music producers often find themselves looking for the elusive secret trick that the professionals (be it producers, mixers or...
Jan 9, 20203 minWhat I Learned Mastering Thys' (of Noisia) AlbumTowards the end of last year, I got asked to master Thys' (of the Dutch electronic powerhouse trio Noisia) 17-track epic 'Music From Sleepin
Dec 10, 20187 minMusic-making Strategies with Hybris [Interview]From releases on drum&bass most iconic labels like Goldie's Metalheadz, through remixing Moby, to catching the ears of the Dutch...
Nov 1, 20183 minWhy ‘Just Turning It Up In The Mix’ May Not Work For Your TuneToday’s blog post is a brief one, and zeroes in on a certain piece of mixing & mastering advice that roams throughout audio communities...
Sep 23, 20184 minHow To Achieve a Great Home-Master: Resetting Your Brain Referenced in my first blog post was psychologist Daniel Kahneman’s work on cognitive biases; and I am going to draw on his work yet...
Aug 26, 20184 minAchieving a Creamy-Smooth Mix And Master Just like many verbalised concepts and adjectives that attempt to describe the qualities of a mix, ‘creamy-smooth’ is an elusive and...
Jun 27, 20184 minMixing & Mastering Club Music For Outside Of The Club: Where Aesthetics Go Head To Head With UtilityWith club music’s full fledged graduation into the mainstream music discourse over the recent years, an interesting and squarely...
Apr 26, 20184 minMastering & The One (Not So) Secret Trick To Rule Them All Make a notch using a bell filter at 250Hz… is precisely not it. :) Way back when, when I’d first acquired an unquenchable thirst for...