Audio mastering is the process of taking audio mixes and preparing them for their best presentation to the world. It is a process that involves tremendous technical knowledge of the audio path and all ...

Iconic movie sound effects, your favorite songs, and ambient background noises are created through the art of audio mixing. From lo-fi to hi-fi and everything in between, here’s the lowdown on the ...

In an age when Apple has become the top music retailer without selling a single physical disc, audio engineers are increasingly creating specially mastered versions of songs and albums designed to ...

Apple's push to increase the quality of songs distributed via iTunes has been formally realized in the company's Mastered for iTunes program—but does it really make music sound better? After our ...

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, ...

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 ...

NAMM 2024: Steinberg has updated its flagship audio editor WaveLab to version 12. It comes with nearly 80 extra features and is the biggest update the iconic software platform has had in years. And ...

There is little doubt that a professionally mastered track will receive more smiles, head nods and foot taps than a track that has no mastering at all. The roadmap to the best product may seem clear - ...

If you thought the Internet was finished disrupting the music industry, hang tight. With music consumption and distribution having been fully upended, the other side of the equation is ripe for change ...