The Sound of Mastering

The Forshowshot  embodies this motivation: to satisfy critical listeners who expect rhythm (regular rise and fall in the flow of sound and speech) to be accurately represented once a song has been mastered. The Forshowshot  completes this cause: necessary reference.

                     Mastering (the engineering step that is responsible for broadcast readiness) involves the use of powerful processing tools to correct and enhance a final mix. The enhancement that presents the most difficult challenge is that of loudness. A loud master has become the industry trend and efforts to uphold this trend have distinguished two types of mastering; mastering in which loudness is characteristic, and mastering characterized by reduced integrity from trying to achieve loudness. With that, understand this; I don’t believe in, nor endorse any mastering procedure that does not account for the cadence (the measure or beat of a rhythmical flow) of the initial instrumental and vocal performances. Any procedure of this sort extracts the soul out of a song and reduces the effectiveness of the other two engineering steps-recording and mixing. Mastering should result in bringing soul to the forefront of a song, and showing off the recording and the mix.

My goal is to provide a musical solution that allows the listener to indulge in a song. My concern is the listener’s right to a musical experience every time a song is heard. I know this is also the primary concern when considering a mastering solution. So allow me to entertain and enlighten you with my technique. The subject is sound and this is the way.

                                        Stay tuned, B. Miller