This week's episode features a full-length interview with Matt Colton from Alchemy Mastering, who mastered James Blake’s Dynamic Range Day Award-winning “The Colour In Anything”.
Topics include the processing chain Matt used (and why it possibly doesn’t matter as much as you think it might); the limiter he used (which you may already have) and his favourite default settings for it; the unique story of how he became a mastering engineer - and why vinyl really DOES sometimes sound better than CD
1 hour long interviews is excessive in this day n age, editing would be good, or better, organizing these talks to be brief and concise. I know it's a relaxed talk, it would be fun to have in real life sure, but from the listener's perspective I would suggest compressing 1 hour of blahblah in 10-15 minutes of essential information. sure it would kill some of the charm, but I think it would be much more useful to listeners. I could listen to a bunch of 10 min episodes, but not to massive 1h blocks.
Hold on,, we want less compression, not more 🙂
Hahaha true that, we love it as relaxed and entertaining as it is, we don't wanna be all serious here.
@ zz: Unfortunately that's not the kind of podcast this is. My YouTube channel is full of shorter tutorials, though:
https://www.youtube.com/user/masteringmedia
I have to disagree with you, but I do understand your reply. Podcasting is a very personal thing. Did this Podcast help me with my Podcasting? No! Did it help with my Mastering skills? No. But this is the beautiful thing. I could only imagine listening in on Pink Floyd, The Who, Peter Frampton, Prince or The Police, when they had one of their BS secession. This is a BS session.
The nuggets of information I received from this Podcast, is quite simple. I got to learn more about Ian, while being 6,000 miles away. Does it help me? No. Will it help the next Band that asks me, who should we get to Master our next song? The answer is Yes! Hey guys, go listen to this Podcast, you can see where the Man came from and what he is all about! Just my 2 cents.
Thanks for a great episode! But when I searched for the album I could only find The colour *IN* anything" - maybe you should correct that typo.
Will do, thanks
Very insightful interview with Matt Colton. I think this approach would have positively benefited Coldplay's 'A Head Full of Dreams' - perhaps Emily Lazar was under strict orders from Parlophone/Atlantic to make it as loud as possible in preference to clarity, depth and dynamics.
Well it does help most of us to learn about Ian because we don't only listen to his podcasts to learn about mastering but knowing that "no matter where you come from or what personality you have you can still be a great mastering engineer" does help boost our inspiration, that is exactly what we want on these podcasts, to recharge and gain confidence about what we do. Why don't you rather look for these short clips instead like it's been recommended. Cmon now...
Its good as your other blog posts :D, regards for
posting.
Yes, it was a rather long blog, but I learned a lot. I don't think some of the gems would have been revealed if it had been a short 10 min. blog...
Ian, what plugins did you and Matt refer to? FabFilter ProL, Pro MB or Pro C2?