Dave McNair has been playing, recording, mixing, producing, and mastering music for more than 30 years and has worked with a wide range of artists including Los Lobos, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Patti Smith, ...

The timing of my visit was perfect, I strolled into Alex DeTurk‘s studio at Masterdisk just as he was cutting an LP. DeTurk was moving to the music, totally engaged with the sound as the big record ...

One of today's most in-demand producers is New York-based mastering engineer Emily Lazar, who stands to win Record of the Year for Sia's smash, "Chandelier." By Harley Brown Sia isn’t the only ...

Behind every memorable record is a creative process that extends beyond the artist’s performance. From building musical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in the noughties, such was the impact of the so-called 'loudness was' that they weren't just something that music technology ...

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 ...

In the first days of recorded music, mastering was a purely technical process. Early masters were often done without a second thought by the vinyl lathe operators themselves! Back then the only goal ...

Mastering in audio software requires a high level of attention to detail, and it differs from mixing in a number of ways. When you’re mixing a song, you’re taking into account all of the instruments ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Making music is one of the most human things we do, but in recent years, AI has stepped in to lend a helping hand. Algorithms have been infiltrating nearly every part of music making, from generating ...