Mastering Music (with Dallas Taylor of Twenty Thousand Hertz)

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Dallas Taylor, host of the stellar sound design series Twenty Thousand Hertz, stops by to fill Nate in on the science and style of mastering: the subtle art that explains why Metallica had to re-release a controversial album, Kanye sounds so crisp, and why the best pop really pops. Songs Discussed Lizzo - Juice Kanye West - Heartless Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven Pink Floyd - Money Daft Punk - Get Lucky Metallica - The Day That Never Comes DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper The Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Intrigued by mastering? Get your fix with the Twenty Thousand Hertz episode The [Compressed] History of Mastering. We are conducting an audience survey to better serve you. It takes no more than five minutes, and it really helps out the show. Please take our survey here: https://voxmedia.iad1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ewVXHPZIsQNlxCR?Source=note Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:54.0	Welcome to Switched On Pop. I'm Sound Designer Dallas Taylor.
1:09.0	And I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
1:11.0	So Nate, I wanted to tell you about this cool thing that I have gotten into.
1:16.0	Who are you and what have you done with Charlie Harding?
1:19.0	I don't know what you're talking about. Who's this Charlie Harding person?
1:25.0	I seem to recall that I used to host the show with songwriter.
1:32.0	Yeah, songwriter Charlie Harding. Wait a minute. Dallas Taylor.
1:36.0	It's coming back to me now. Wait, you're Dallas Taylor, host of the awesome podcast, 20,000 Hertz.
1:44.0	And you know, I guess since you're here, is there anything you want to talk about?
1:49.0	Well, I guess I can. I mean, I'm always kind of working on something anyway.
1:52.0	So here's something that I've been thinking about a lot.
1:54.0	But first, I want to start with an example.
1:57.0	So I want you to tell me which one of these two examples sound better to you.
2:02.0	So here's one.
2:14.0	So that's the first one.
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