the Music Mastering
Audio Post Mixing for Video
and Metaphysical Musings
of Jamal Ruhe
Mastering is the final process by which a recording is readied for its audience, and it is an entirely audience-centric art.
Mastering engineers attend to consistency and coherence between songs on an album, not just in terms of loudness but also balance, character, and spirit.
Mastering engineers are tasked with translating artistic intent to aesthetic experience, supporting the listener’s perception that a record all comes from “one place,” emotionally and physically.
It is a weird conflation of the most practical and the most esoteric concerns, equally subject to romanticization and snake-oil debunking.
J Burdick
Mixed these Recently
The first Phoebe Bridgers Release? The most recent Diet Cig Release?
Some words used to describe sounds:
warm detailed punchy thick open hazy gooey fat nasal sibilant processed forward rich fast boomy limited lean polished pinched analog ringing pumping mellow choked depth bright focused timbre crushed extended narrow dark glued gated glossy clipped spread noisy smooth resonant deep greasy vibrant thunderous veiled strident wave nuanced lofi muscular dirty loud pace harsh dynamic fizzy wide grainy compressed huge small masked static banging polished holographic hyped edgy powerful shrill tone balanced
Some Sounds
(I stopped counting at 1000 projects mastered)
Here is some music I’ve mastered to check out. Skip around. Every 30 seconds or so there’s a new clip.
“Indie”?
Instrumentalisms
Beats Banging
Band Rock Jammin’:
Folks that Twang
Jamal and Alan
(whom I used to work with)
Talking About Mastering
Below are color blocks I left in from the template.
