RSR303 - Justin Perkins - Mystery Room Mastering Tips for Home Studio Mixing & Mastering
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2021
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Justin Perkins a mastering engineer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin who has worked on remastering projects for The Replacements, En Vogue, Ol' Dirty Bastard, and mastering projects for Michael Franti & Spearhead, Tommy Stinson, The Gaslight Anthem, Smoking Popes, Anberlin, Screeching Weasel, The Mr. T Experience, and thousands of other independent bands and artists around the world.
Before transitioning to mastering full-time he also spent time at Butch Vig's Smart Studios in Madison Wisconsin recording and mixing a number of projects, and has been working full-time in the audio field for nearly 20 years. His studio Mystery Room Mastering has been in business since 2009.
Growing up and playing in bands in the midwest is what helped Justin formulate a career in audio and ultimately led to playing bass for a time in the band Screeching Weasel, as well as playing bass for Tommy Stinson's solo shows, and the relaunch of Tommy Stinson's post-Replacements band called Bash & Pop who released a new album in 2017 on Fat Possum Records and performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Aside from mastering tons of singles, EPs, and albums, Justin also masters nearly all the content for The License Lab which is a library music company based in Milwaukee Wisconsin, and recently started doing a monthly livestream for Steinberg Media to help both new and current users of WaveLab Pro get a better understanding of how to use it.
Justin has also written a number of articles for the popular website The Pro Audio Files on the topic of mastering, preparing for mastering, and an overview of what types of master files you may need for various release formats.
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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. So get ready to rock. |
| 0:36.1 | Less educated clients think that it's really easy to just turn it up and turn it up more. |
| 0:40.3 | But what they don't realize is that by doing that, you're losing some of the transient detail, |
| 0:44.3 | clarity, dynamics, sometimes adding distortion. |
| 0:47.5 | So there's absolutely no need to master to any certain number, especially minus 14 LUFS. |
| 0:52.9 | You can. |
| 0:53.7 | I mean, I would love it if all music was |
| 0:55.5 | mastered to minus 14 or 12, but I understand the real world is different. |
| 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. |
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| 2:10.6 | The JZ pop filter uses a unique waveguide design that prevents closives from getting through to the mic while allowing important |
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