Pete Lyman: The Art of Commitment

Pete Lyman is a GRAMMY-nominated mastering engineer, and owner of Infrasonic. Pete’s digital and vinyl mastering career spans thousands of titles over the last two decades. He has mastered Grammy-award winning and Grammy-nominated albums for Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile, Halsey, Sturgill Simpson, John Prine, Weezer, Panic! At the Disco and more.

In 2005 Lyman opened Infrasonic West, a custom-built mastering facility in Echo Park, CA. Pete, and his 1956 Neumann AM32B Cutting Lathe, moved to Nashville, TN in 2018 and opened Infrasonic East. In 2022, Infrasonic West found its new home in Highland Park, CA. Since then, Pete has curated the Infrasonic roster to include engineers spanning everything from mixing to mastering to vinyl cutting to immersive and so much more.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

1. Why not committing to your mix is doing more harm than good
2. The biggest problem people make with their editing
3. Using room correction tools/software
4. Why the level of your mix doesn’t matter as much as you think it does
5. Why stem-mastering is stupid and you should avoid it
6. Passive vs. active listening
7. Preserving the character of a mix in mastering
8. Knowing when to do nothing as part of your job as a mixing and mastering engineer
9. How to let go of your personal tastes when working on something that doesn’t connect with you
10. Understanding the needs of various genres

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