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The Mastering Show #19 - Sylvia Massy

August 4th, 2016 BY Jon Tidey5 Comments

In this show Ian talks to the fabulous Sylvia Massy about her fantastic new book, "Recording Unhinged" - and how perhaps mastering could be a little more unhinged sometimes, too. Topics include:

  • Ian's first ever mastering project (although he didn't know it at the time)
  • Recording underwater brass
  • Why gaffer-taping Peter Gabriel to a column wasn't such a bad idea
  • How to make a REALLY hidden track on CD
  • How to record like Harry Potter
  • What Sylvia does to prepare her music for mastering, and why

Links

Sylvia Massy's Website

Recording Unhinged Book

Extendable Ear toy

5 comments on “The Mastering Show #19 - Sylvia Massy”

  1. I'm intrigued by what she called pre-mastering. I want to know more about it. You could do a whole show on that topic. (hint, hint)

  2. Thank's for that, a top podcast.
    Queens of the Stone Age album Songs for the Deaf, Song 1 starts off in a car with the DJ talking on the radio. If you fast rewind you will get an additional 15-20 seconds of the DJ on the radio.
    Keep up the good work.

  3. Great podcast with Sylvia, I really like that you started to interview interesting people from the industry! Keep up the great work, looking forward to the next episodes.

  4. Sylvia is great! Thanks for interviewing her - such interesting subjects!

    I purchased Sylvia's book and was fortunate enough to have her sign it at the last Sweetwater Gearfest event, as well as some of her great art that she graciously offered.

    Her book is great and I consider it an important read for audio engineers. It is not only a very fun collection of stories, but it presents viewpoints and experiences of many top engineers and producers on a wide range of subjects.

    Recording Unhinged gets into the mind of the artist and the engineer rather than simply presenting the science of recording the sound. I consider it the most important audio engineering educational book I own.

  5. Thought you might like to know that I'm using this episode as a reference track for my own podcast mastering (still very amateur hour). 😀 Great work in general on the show!

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