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 ...

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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. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve ...

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 ...

There’s a lot that goes into making a song or an album, and one crucial step happens after the recording and mixing are done: sound mastering. One of the most respected mastering engineers in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “It’s that perfect combination: Great artist. Great music. Great production. Great mixing. Great mastering. Voilà!” says ...

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, ...

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 ...

First, the robots came for our factory jobs, then for our fast-food jobs. Now, they’re aiming their laser-guided sights at… music-recording engineers? On Thursday, the audio-processing company Landr ...

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, ...