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“Mastered for iTunes – sonic revelation, or meaningless sales hype?” by Ian Shepherd
Shepherd on mastering for iTunes. Scott Hull from Masterdisk also weighs in. Mastered for iTunes – sonic revelation, or meaningless sales hype
Mastering for iTunes
Digital Music News interviewed Vlado Meller, the mastering engineer on the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album, which has three masters: one for CD, one for vinyl, and one for iTunes. Digital Music News: What specific considerations play into the … Continue reading
Mixing for MP3 Is Stupid
In my opinion. Once in a while I’ll read something about mixing engineers and how they create different mixes for CDs and digital music services. The arguments are that encodes don’t recreate certain frequencies well, like anything below 100hz. So … Continue reading
Lovin’ The Amazon MP3 Store: The AAC/MP3 Fidelity Argument
I’ve been getting upset that AAC hasn’t gotten as much support as MP3, but the more I think about it the more I realize that MP3 is the smarter choices for these stores. I prefer AAC, but MP3 has wider … Continue reading
The iTunes “Last Chance” Playlist
If you’ve read the iTunes Zero article you’ll know that I’m very meticulous about everything in my iTunes library – and chances are you probably do the same things. One of the other problems you may be facing is that … Continue reading