Where have you been? I know – it’s been quiet around here and on my social media. So here’s a pretty big update. 2024 So far While I haven’t been back to Sabah this year, we did head off to Penang, Malaysia.From July – December 2023 – for personal reasons, I stopped taking on new
What’s the deal with 16 bit audio – CD’s still sound good in 2023 / From a listening perspective there is nothing wrong with 16 bit audio. So why do we recommend recording and mixing in 24 bit audio formatsA fairly reasonable comparison in the Guardian was posted in 2021. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/21/mp3-cd-24-bit-audio-music-hi-res 16 bit audio provides
Client Portal to streamline uploading your music, previewing and receiving your final masters Steam Mastering have implemented a simple client portal to take away the annoying reliance on file transfer or cloud sharing services. We will be launching this portal officially in mid August 2022, but if you’d like to help test it and have
Reference songs or reference tracks are mentioned frequently in how to’s and tips and tricks. They are a great tool for mixing and mastering in general but often get overlooked. Reference songs are simply songs that you use to compare your work to. A couple of weeks ago, I talked about hearing a track at
Big Kick Drums are an important element to dance music styles, but can they be too big? Kick drums that are overcooked. I’m looking at you , Techno, House and EDM Producers. Actually, the majority of electronic producers that use drums make this mistake at some point. You’ve spent hours crafting the perfect kick drum.
Steam Mastering’s client portal is under construction To streamline our workflow and make life easier for our clients we are building a new client portal. This will allow artists and labels to upload files directly via our website and also to be able to listen to preview files in full resolution via a player in
Congratulations to K.Deey a deserving talent for making the beatport Top 100 hard techno releases Long time Belgian DJ, but relatively upcoming producer K.Deey hit number 6 on the Beatport Top 100 Hard Techno releases on the 13.02.2022. At writing of this post (17/02/2022), it is still at number 8. While I really enjoyed mastering
ISRC stands for International Standard Recording Code. These are used to track the copyright of a recording and help you make sure you get paid for public playing or streaming of your music. You need to submit these wherever you upload your music and to your performing rights association where you register your works. A
Have you ever found yourself constantly pulling down the main fader to stop your mix exceeding 0 dB?Setting up your gain structure before you start mixing will help make the mixing process easier. Many DAW\’s have a \’trim\’ pot on the mixer screen additional to the fader. You can use this to adjust the overall
