Gavin Lurssen has been a mastering engineer since 1991. He is a thirteen-time Grammy nominee and four-time Grammy winner. Artists whose albums he has mastered include Ringo Starr, Jackson Browne, the Foo Fighters, Ben Harper, Queens of the Stone Age, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Eric Clapton, Sara Bareilles, and Chvrches, to name just a few. Soundtracks include Game of Thrones, Jack Ryan, The Mandalorian, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, The Flash and Westworld. He is a graduate of The Berklee College of Music in Boston and is a recipient of their Distinguished Alumni Award.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:
- Working with Doug Sax
- Setting expectations with clients about what they want vs. what they need
- Why loudness doesn’t matter in mastering
- How streaming services alter your music
- The ways that saturation can make your masters sound better
- Clipping vs saturation
- Why the order of your signal chain matters
- How de-essers can be used for more than just correcting sibilance
- The Lurssen Mastering Console plugin
- Having clean signal chains
- How gainstaging impacts everything in your signal chain
To learn more about Gavin Lurssen, visit: https://lurssenmastering.com/
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