It's not every day you get to make a new master of an album you've already worked on – especially not from a completely new mix !

But that's exactly what happened for me recently.

Dan from Ember Rev had never been happy with the guitar parts on ...

It's pretty much impossible that you haven't heard "Golden" from the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack at this point - even if you don't realise it !

It's a great tune, but like most K-Pop the loudness has been pushed really hard, so I couldn't help asking - how would it sound with better dynamics ?

And in fact we don't have to wonder - I...

I'm seeing this question all the time recently:

"I hit the LUFS target, but my mixes still sound smaller than the pros - WTF?!"

Which seems like a perfectly reasonable question, right ? LUFS measure loudness, so just match the LUFS to the appropriate target and you're good to go… why wouldn't it work ?

Well (as alw...

"Headlock" by Imogen Heap went viral recently and has gone platinum, 20 years after it was first released.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary, a

The level you choose to master at influences every other aspect of the way your music sounds The final level of your master is virtually irrelevant, and music fans don’t care

These two facts are both true - even though they seem to flatly contradict each other !

I call this the ‘Loudness Paradox’, but what does it...