RSR294 - Brian Lucey - Mastering Music Is All About Love Not Fear
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Brian Lucey, widely considered one of the very best mastering engineers. He began in the late 80s in NYC East Village as a professional musician (guitar, voice, piano) then became a student of Robert Fripp and Guitar Craft through the early/mid 90s. Mastering began in the late 90s and his experience in all other phases has lead to a distinctly musical approach to mastering. Brian works out of Los Angeles at Magic Garden Mastering.
Select Credits include: Chet Faker, Depeche Mode, Lucinda Williams, Elvis Costello, Shania Twain, Marilyn Manson, Green Day, The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, Cage The Elephant, Dr John, Ghost and thousands more…
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by Sound Porter Mastering, |
| 0:06.1 | OWC, Adam Audio, API Audio, JZ microphones, Spectra-1964, and Isotope. |
| 0:13.8 | In fact, you're hearing my voice right now through the J-Z pop filter on the J-ZB-29 microphone, |
| 0:20.0 | through the Spectra-1964 STX-600 mic pre-complimeter and |
| 0:25.3 | isotope RX and ozone, all recorded safely onto an OWC, Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD. |
| 0:33.5 | So get ready to rock. |
| 0:35.8 | When it comes to music making, my thing about it is that my imprint on the music I work on needs to sort of cleanse any of those fear side energies and introduce only the good ones. |
| 0:49.8 | Because I believe that people hear, and this is, you know, may sound crazy, I understand, |
| 0:56.0 | but I believe that people hear the qualities of the humans in the music. |
| 1:10.4 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
| 1:25.2 | When I'm Master a Song, I'm immersed and committed to a sonic fidelity from start to beyond finished. |
| 1:31.2 | Hi, I'm Brian Murphy of Sound Porter mastering. My goal in every master is to help you prepare so that you're not compromising your timeline, budget, or your mix. |
| 1:39.8 | My iterative process helps build a relationship with you so that you don't have to ever second |
| 1:44.3 | guess your mix. Let's pull back the curtains on mastering because there's no secrets here. Send me your |
| 1:49.5 | mix and I'll give you free feedback or a free mastered demo. Just hit me up at soundporter.com. |
| 2:00.2 | Whether you're in the studio or working remotely, |
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