Mastering For Streaming

In this week's Podcast Julian is joined by Ashea and Ian Shepherd for a discussion about about mastering in the streaming age.Ian Shepherd is a mastering engineer of 25 years experience who has become well known for his work around the detrimental effects of the loudness wars. He runs the Production Advice blog and hosts The Mastering Show podcast.Talking PointsMastering for Streaming Platforms, let’s talk specificsLoundness Normalisation and Album NormalisationLoudness Wars, are they still a thing? Do we still need loud masters?True Peak Limiters vs normal limitersClippingWidening mixesFinds Of The WeekJulian - Genelec GRADE ReportsAshea - Pope AudioIan - AM coustics, Who Killed the KLF