I held a mastering workshop for students from Stockholm University of the Arts yesterday. I used to teach audio engineering and music production for 10 years but this was the first time I taught mastering techniques. As usual when you try to teach something you realize that you certainly don’t know it all… well, I […]
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It’s here, the first EP release mastered by Saintpid Mastering. It’s the electronic punk duo Noisebud’s EP Doozers 3.0. Enjoy!
After two weeks of moving the speakers and listening position around I think I found the best spot. My conclusion is, as expected, that the room is too small. I would need at least 2 more meters behind my back to be able to hear the really low end. But the good thing is, I […]
As soon as I got the speaker stands in place I had to measure the acoustic response, it turned out about the way I’d planned; not perfect but pretty controlled and the carpet and diffusers will add it’s magic as soon they’re in place. I went on with painting the speaker stands and the vertical […]
There’s still plenty of things on the to do list but it’s not long until we can start to work. We need to buy some more software and there’s some paint job left but that’s nothing that affect the sound. We had a little setback, one of the AES/EBU cards (Yellowtec PUC2) was faulty and […]
More acoustic treatment in the making…
The superchunks are finished! The normal thing to do would be to construct the whole thing on site in the corner but since I might move the studio soon I wanted to be able to move them. Here’s how they’re constructed.
Hello World, the original post, to be followed by hundreds of posts about the birth and life of Saintpid Mastering. I’ve been working with mastering on the side for the past 10 years but I never got around setup my studio to meet the terms of a true mastering environment. Even though my clients been […]