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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hailing from Mexico City and now based at New York's Sterling Sound, mastering engineer Idania Valencia has an impressive CV that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

This is the second installment of Rolling Stone’s series At Work, in which we explore the fast-changing music business from the perspective of a different industry leader each week. Read the first ...

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 ...