RSR454 - Joe Hutchinson - How To Master A Record
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 146 minutes
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My guest today is Joe Hutchinson, a mastering engineer at Garage Masters in Nashville, TN where Joe has been providing mastering services for over 10 years.
Joe works in a well-designed room built in 2022 and uses a combination of analog and digital tools to give each song or project what it needs. Every project is different, and what happens in mastering can vary from heavy-handed processing to being almost transparent. Often mastering will catch little things missed in the production/mixing process since a mastering engineer offers a fresh set of ears, and in that sense acts as the quality control at the end of the recording process.
Joe was my mastering engineer at the Hay Bale Studio at Bonnaroo for many years and has been a guest on the podcast for episode RSR013 where you can hear his backstory. Today we will talk about what's new in mastering and see what we can learn for our own studios as well.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by Adam Audio, Isotope, native instruments, Luit, and Grace Design. |
| 0:11.6 | You're hearing my voice right now on the new Luit Ray microphone with aura, auto gain, and EQ mode through the Grace Design M201 Mark 2 Mike Pre mixed through isotope, |
| 0:25.0 | voice enhancement assistant RX, ozone, neutron, and nectar on atom audio monitors. |
| 0:32.9 | Please check out our awesome sponsors using the links in the show notes. |
| 0:37.4 | It's a great way to help support this show. |
| 0:40.0 | Now get ready to rock. |
| 0:43.2 | You've got a live band in the studio. |
| 0:44.9 | You're press and record. |
| 0:46.1 | That first take that they do always has some magic to it. |
| 0:49.3 | It's not always the one that you keep, |
| 0:51.0 | but there's always something like the energy of the first take. |
| 0:54.0 | It's everyone's |
| 0:54.8 | going at it with their fresh ideas with the energy and stuff. Some of that can still apply |
| 0:58.8 | even all the way to mastering. Yeah, I listen to it. I make some notes, do a bunch of processing. |
| 1:03.1 | Whatever I'm doing first is almost always my best foot forward. |
| 1:19.7 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:27.5 | I'm Lid Shaw and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
| 1:33.4 | Hey, rock stars. |
| 1:34.4 | Yeah, you. |
| 1:36.3 | I've got a secret to tell you. |
| 1:38.7 | Want to know how I get a consistent sound mixing over a thousand hours of recording studio rock stars? |
| 1:42.7 | Well, my secret is using isotope, RX, ozone, neutron, |
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