It’s virtually impossible that you haven’t heard music of some kind mixed by Alan Meyerson by this point - he’s one of the most prolific and successful film score mixers in the business.

And luckily for us, he’s also super-generous and open about the information he shares, including his perspectives on mixing and ‘mastering’ music for the movies. So in this episode we dig deep into all the details, including topics like:

• Is there really such a thing as ‘mastering’ for film ?
• What needs to be delivered, and what is the process ?
• How loud does it need to be - are there any standards ?
• When does Alan deliver mixes in Atmos, and why ?
• How he uses the centre channel and surround channels
• Why you might want to use saturation or pitch-shifting (!) in a movie score mix

Links

Film score mixing with Alan Meyerson

Mixing with synths in Pirates of the Caribbean 

Alan’s videos on Mix With The Masters

TMS #81 - Dolby Atmos Mastering

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