by admin | Feb 8, 2021 | Articles
We already have an article about mastering for Spotify. But we decided to create updated notes for musicians about Mastering for Spotify. Many of you have a questions What is Spotify LUFS? What is Spotify Replay Gain? How to meet the Spotify quality levels? And how to...
by Max Rayden | Jun 18, 2020 | Articles
Before now all music had released by recording labels. They did the printing of your vinyl, cd, etc. Then they started to distribute your music through streaming platforms. Labels also do everything about your copyrights, registering ISRC and EAN-UPC codes for your...
by Max Rayden | Jun 18, 2020 | Articles
It’s new section of iTunes music store. As a whole market works with mp3 now, iTunes decided to implement new codec called AAC. AAC clearly provides superior sound quality compared to other codecs. So now, with this codec mastering process has changed. Apple being...
by Max Rayden | Jun 18, 2020 | Articles
Spotify uses Replay Gain for normalizing every audio that uploads on its platform. It helps to keep every audio at the same loudness level. For example, every audio from 1924 to 1995 years has 60 db of Dynamic Range. Now average audio has 12 db of Dynamic Range. It’s...
by Max Rayden | Jun 18, 2020 | Articles
To some extent, yes, but you shouldn’t expect that it will be a huge difference. Mastering aims only to bring the song to industry standards. If there was no mastering engineer, then the whole industry would sound horrible. That loud, that quiet, that bright, or that...
by Max Rayden | Jun 18, 2020 | Articles
At this step, I must tell you that your path is almost over. The musician shouldn’t be working on mixing, unless he has a lot of experience. Mixing engineers are certainly a creative profession, but it includes a lot of technical nuances. A mixing engineer has to know...