Category: Season 1 – May

Joey Sturgis shares his In The Box mastering tips and tricks.

Out of the three of us, Joey Sturgis has done the most mastering and in fact, he’s never had one of his mixes mastered by an outside engineer. He’s totally self taught and responsible for several chart toping masters. In this episode he shares some of his most effective mastering techniques.

Joey dives into his process, and how goes about getting the last 5 to 10% out of the track, using tools such as saturation, harmonic exciters, processors like Waves MaxxBass and spatial treatment.

“Having your mix unmastered is kind of like having a product on the shelf that doesn’t look like it was put together by a designer” – Joey Sturgis

In This Episode You’ll Learn about:

• Joey’s goto mastering plugins
• Multi-band compression
• The loudness war
• Dithering
• Saturation in mastering
• Best uses for Izotope Ozone
• Enhancing the low end for small speakers
• Limiting vs clipping
• Mid-Side processing

Links:

Fuck 4k Plugin and Shirt
Waves MaxxBass
Fab Filter Pro-Mb
Izotope Ozone
Waves LinMB

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Joey, Eyal, and Joel are joined by mastering legend Bob Katz for some rousing discussion about the current state of recording and what it actually takes to create professional sounding mixes and masters.

It’s really common for people to want presets and templates, however mastering is always a case of figuring out what specific situations require. You can’t just slap the same plugins with the same settings on everything. You must diagnose each situation individually, and then apply the correct processing.

Learn about what it takes to master at the very highest levels of the game from a true legend and innovator, Bob Katz.

“It’s like putting salt and pepper on your food before you taste it.” – Bob Katz

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:

– Bob’s minimum specs for a monitoring setup
– The truth about mastering for iTunes
– Bob’s approach towards M/S processing
– Stem mastering
– The use of saturation in multiple genres
– The NS10 phenomenon

Links:

Bob Katz’s website
Mastering Audio – Bob Katz’s book
Bob Katz’s K-Meter plugin

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Welcome to #MasteringCritMonday, the show where we critique YOUR mastering.

Prolific mastering engineer, Maor Appelbaum stopped by to help us critique some listener submitted mastering work.

In this episode you’ll learn about:

• Nice and loud vs fatiguing to listen to
• What to submit to a mastering engineer
• Adding low end without destroying the track
• When to apply a heavy handed mastering approach
• Maor’s favorite outboard gear
• Adding treble without harshness
• Mastering for vinyl

Want us to crit your mix? Click here to find out how!

links:

Maor’s website

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Alan Douches is one of the most recognizable names in mastering when it comes to any genre of heavy music.

With over 6000 mastering credits to his name with artists ranging from Mastodon to Whitechapel to Bowling For Soup Alan Douches has become one of the most in demand engineers in the world.

We spoke at length about so many things that it’s hard to summarize. Alan shared great advice for up and comers as well as lots of great mastering tips.

“What are you pretending not to know?” – Alan Douches

Topics:

– Steps to take when mastering for vinyl
– What mastering for Itunes entails
– Analog mastering tips
– The science of listening
– Using dynamics to control your EQ

Links:

Alan Douche’s Mastering Studio
Pendulum Compressor

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Welcome to the Mastering Month 2015 Kick Off w Jesse Cannon

Jesse Cannon, prolific mastering engineer/author/entrepreneur joins the URM Podcast crew to discuss what it takes to become great at mastering and promotion. After all, what good is your talent if you don’t develop it or share it with the world?

To really win at the game of audio you must learn to master your own motivation.

Motivation is the most powerful personal asset you can develop. The same motivation that drives you to become a world class engineer is what will drive you to find better and better paying gigs. Without it you won’t get off the couch, but with it you won’t stop until the job is crushed.

Easier said than done, right? Press play…

“The motivation to not suck is all it took.” – Joey Sturgis

In this episode you’ll learn:

• Jesse’s ITB plugin chain
• How to handle ear fatigue
• The #1 way to refresh your hearing
• 2 keys to a great master
• Intentional relationship building
• The secret to keeping high level gigs
• A positive use of loudness in mastering
• Fundamentals that every mastering engineer should learn

Links:

Jesse’s site
Jesse’s studio
Off The Record Podcast
Noise Creators Podcast
Jesse’s book
DIY Guide podcast
The Lefsetz Letter
Fundamentals of Mixing Rock and EDM with Jesse Cannon on CreativeLIVE
DIY Mastering with Jesse Cannon on CreativeLIVE

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