Article Type: Review

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 […]

Every long playlist has a moment where it stops being a sequence and becomes a grind. Somewhere around track nine the listener’s ear recalibrates to whatever the average level is, and from then on every quiet track feels like a drop in energy. I spent years programming internet radio and this was the thing nobody […]