SOUND ON SOUND
In this final episode of the SOS Mastering Essentials series, Ian Shepherd reveals the best specification and file formats for submitting your masters — both online, and for CD and vinyl.
Compression in mastering is different — both the goals and the methods. Mastering engineer Ian Shepherd describes three different mastering compression techniques — how and when to use them, and why the goal is to be invisible.
How loud is loud enough, and how loud is too loud?
EQ will make or break your master. It's the single most important factor in mastering, once you've decided the loudness...
Without a firm grasp of these three ‘core concepts’ of mastering, you’ll always struggle to get great results. In Part 2 of his series for SOS, mastering engineer Ian Shepherd describes his “Three Ms of Mastering”, and why he thinks they’re so important.
In this six-part video tutorial series, produced in association with Steinberg, well-known mastering engineer Ian...