The Mastering Show #103 – Q&A: Technical versus Creative Mastering

This started out as a Q&A episode, but one way or another there turned out to be a real theme to many of the questions, namely - how do you choose between technical and creative considerations, when mastering ?

Questions like:

• When the client wants songs to sound different
• When to use mid-side processing (or not)
• Transient shaping - hardware or software ?
• How much distortion ?
• When is unbalanced EQ am artistic choice ?
• What to do when the "correct" thing to do goes against the emotion of the song

Take a listen and find out how these questions all connect !

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www.themasteringshow.com/episode-103

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