About this episode

In this episode, Ian discusses the qualities that define a 'real' mastering engineer, exploring the importance of expertise, experience, and credits.

I'm seeing several different discussions online about what makes a "real" mastering engineer – and some of them are getting pretty heated ! So what really matters the most ? Expertise, experience, or credits ? In this episode I talk about my own opinions and reasoning, talking about: Why credits can be a complete red herring, especially online The problem with credits even if they are reliable How I got great results with (almost) zero experience When years of experience might not be an advantage The power (and problems) of trial and error When expertise becomes a super-power Links and more episodes here: www.themasteringshow.com/episode-110 Mentioned in this episode: Learn to master ! Click HERE to see Ian's courses and mastering resources Leapwing Find out more about Leapwing's plugins Tools For Ian's mastering plugins, click HERE

People in this episode

Host: Ian

Topics covered

• mastering engineer
• expertise
• experience
• music production
• credits
• trial and error

Keywords

• mastering engineer
• expertise
• music production
• credits
• trial and error
• experience

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Leapwing

Products: mastering plugins

Books & works: The Mastering Show

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