Vinyl Mastering At Capitol Records

August 17th, 2010

This has to be the smallest mastering room ever with rock walls – it looks more like a themed bar in the Mediterranean! Quite interesting what he does with A & B desks towards the end. Nice Neve Eq’s and Read More »

Hip Pocket Disc…70′s Flexdiscs

August 12th, 2010

Greg Calbi Getting Heated About Loudness

June 20th, 2010

Calm down Greg you’ll give yourself a headache!!!

How To Prepare Your Music For Mastering

May 25th, 2010

I get asked a lot for the best way to make mixes sound before delivering to me for mastering. So I’ve made a quick do’s and dont’s list, I hope it helps‚ I’ll keep adding them as I get asked Read More »

Streaky Mastering Featured In Music Industry Guide

March 09th, 2010

Yes fame at last…does that mean fortune is on the why…I do hope so, the wife’s after a new sofa!! I was approached about 6months ago to give my 2 pence worth on how to get into the music industry Read More »

Does Vinyl Mastering differ to CD Mastering or mp3 Mastering

February 23rd, 2010

When producing a master for vinyl there are many considerations due to the limitations of the cutting lathe and the space on the vinyl. Firstly, A lathes cutter head doesn’t respond well to very high or very low frequencies. If Read More »

What Is A PMCD?

February 10th, 2010

PMCD stands for Pre-Mastered Compact Disc, it is a fully prepared master disc needed for factory Cd replication. The differences between a normal CDR (red book) and a PMCD are that a Pre Mastered Disc holds disc related data in Read More »

Should Mastering Engineers Have A Preferred Genre Of Music?

January 17th, 2010

Nowadays, there are a lot of places where music can be mastered, and I guess there always have been since mastering was a commodity required by record companies.¬† I’d compare the London mastering climate to a town with 5 supermarkets Read More »

What are ISRC Codes?

November 17th, 2009

One of the things we are required to do as a mastering studio is encode CD production masters (PMCD) or DDPi files with ISRC codes. This stands for International Standard Recording Code, and is the international identification system for sound Read More »

[press release] Streaky Mastering Feel The Squeeze With Maselec Compressor

January 09th, 2009

 (if you are a magazine or blogger please feel free to use this release wherever you like) Streaky Mastering have added the new Maselec Electronics 3 band compressor to its already extensive kit list. The Maselec Multiband is essentially Read More »

Streaky Mastering and the Online Mastering Generation

September 25th, 2008

This is an article I put together for Mix magazine in the US hopefully they’ll not cut too much out…I thought I’d share the whole thing here… If you have a blog or mag please use or link to any Read More »

First Gold Album for Streaky Mastering with Tiao Cruz

September 19th, 2008

I’m please to say that Streaky Mastering has only been going for 2 months and we’ve already struck gold. UK R & B Star Taio Cruz’s Album went gold this week, If you’ve not heard it yet go over to Read More »

My first blog on this new blog system

July 17th, 2008

Hello, welcome to the streaky mastering blog. This will be updated daily with my thoughts and comments on mastering and anything else to do with the music industry. Hope you enjoy it, get in touch if you have any questions Read More »