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Hailing from Mexico City and now based at New York's Sterling Sound, mastering engineer Idania Valencia has an impressive CV that includes work for Sam Smith, Shawn Mendes and, most recently, Charli ...

It was just a stray remark at the end of a guitar lesson last fall. My teacher is a veteran musician whose band has had both major label and indie record deals, and he loves the analog, the human, the ...

Suddenly, everyone can master their own music. I would worry that it would produce one generic master sound but the labels do a pretty "good" job of making that happen right now. I’ve been really ...

Shawn Everett will never forget the first time he worked on a recording mastered by Greg Calbi. Everett, an engineer-producer who’s since worked with Calbi on albums by Kacey Musgraves and Hozier, had ...

Making music is one of the most human things we do, but in recent years, AI has stepped in to lend a helping hand. Algorithms have been infiltrating nearly every part of music making, from generating ...