“It made the music sound like what I was hearing on the radio,” says Billie EIlish and SZA mastering engineer Dale Becker, ...

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 ...

PRODUCER WEEK 2025: Hailing from Mexico City and now based at New York's Sterling Sound, mastering engineer Idania Valencia has an impressive CV that includes work for Sam Smith, Shawn Mendes and, ...

There is more work to a song than just production. Completing a recording of a track isn’t the final step to releasing it. Mixing and mastering engineering are necessary processes for finalizing a ...

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, ...

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Falconer native Randy Merrill is pictured inside his mastering studio, M6, at Sterling Sound in New York City. Merrill received two Grammys last week for his work on Adele’s album “25.” Submitted ...

The last step in audio production is being taken over by machines The last step in audio production is being taken over by machines Making music is one of the most human things we do, but in recent ...

Idania Valencia had never been to the Grammys before. The Mexico City native was nominated twice for her mastering work on Charli XCX’s sixth studio album, 2024’s Brat. While she didn’t win, she ...

David Glasser doesn’t do iPods. He’s got an iPhone, but there’s no music stored on it. “That’s not my world,” Glasser said. Forgive the man. He’s got the most refined of ears. The MP3 technology most ...

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, ...