Mastering

The Loudness War has had countless musicians wanting their music louder and to a fault in many cases (including a good chunk of my audio mastering clients at Music Guy Mastering), begging the question what is the best RMS level for mastering. Let’s talk where you should aim for when it comes to the RMS […]

If you’ve got any kind of relatively advanced audio diagnostic plugins which are used in mixing and mastering for determining levels, you may have seen volume represented as an RMS value. Let’s identify what is RMS in audio and why it’s important in accurately appraising the volume of your song either in mix or master

Audio mastering is the final step in audio production, but it’s still a nebulous term which isn’t especially obvious in terms of what it is or why it’s needed. While I’ve always mixed my own music, I started out as an audio mastering engineer professionally before I began mixing professionally shortly after. Let’s demystify and

When we’re talking audio masters, metadata is information about the music which is written as part of the audio file itself. While relevant information like artist name, album name, and song titles all get written to your music in the case of a CD release via a DDP, you can actually add this information to

Since hitting their peak in sales at the turn of the millennium, CDs have seen a steady decline year after year. That said, all physical mediums are experiencing a small resurgence these days, and while that’s primarily led by vinyl, CDs have trended upward the last couple of years, as well. Getting your music ready