Quite recently I’ve been asked to give my vision on mastering and more specifically, AI, the trending thing for 2024. This is something which I also normally do during lectures since people have a lot of questions about it. Actually, AI mastering is not new at all, it’s something which has been going...

Quite recently I realized I’m mastering music for 25 years by the end of 2023. I wanted to tell you the short version of my story. Now that I think of it more, it really doesn’t feel like 25 years to me for numbers of reasons. I also don’t like celebrating birthdays and things. I was even on a holiday...

This week I posted an article from a Dutch newspaper on my personal Facebook about vinyl records and how we perceive it. The article itself was behind a paywall so not everybody could read it and in my short description I basically said that vinyl sucks because it’s an outdated system. Vinyl freaks...

Active listening and passive listening (and why it's important) When placing an order through the website, during checkout you will be asked to 'tick 2 boxes'. The first is the terms and agreements, which needs to be done by law, and the second (which is the first actually) says: ‘Final quality check!...

For years, I have been delivering dedicated masters for streaming services. Back when I started with this, it was an option which I could do if specifically requested. This all started when iTunes came up with the so called ‘Mastered for iTunes’ program. MFiT (now called Apple Digital Masters) is...

One of the questions that I hear quite often is; How can I make my music to appear louder on streaming services because this and that track sound louder then my track? You will most likely hear or read about two answers, 'you can not make it louder, because it will all be normalized to the same level'...