Article Type: Mastering

Most of the loudness confusion I see from people prepping tracks for radio comes from treating one number as gospel. There is no single correct loudness target. There are several, and they depend entirely on where the audio is going and whether anything downstream will turn it down for you. Here is the plain version, […]

I spent years programming an internet radio station, and the most useful lesson came from a cheap car radio in the parking lot. A mix I’d spent a week balancing sounded like a wall of mush through those speakers. That’s the honest test: not how a track sounds on your monitors, but what’s still there […]