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Mid/Side 101
When you're mastering for vinyl, understanding mid/side processing is essential. The way a cutting stylus translates stereo information into groove modulation is fundamentally different from stereo recording, and if you...
Mid/Side 101
When you're mastering for vinyl, understanding mid/side processing is essential. The way a cutting stylus translates stereo information into groove modulation is fundamentally different from stereo recording, and if you...
Do Lathe Cuts Sound Worse Than Pressed Records?
Over the years of cutting at Pressure Mastering, we’ve regularly come across the claim that lathe cuts don’t sound as good as pressed records, or that they have more surface...
Do Lathe Cuts Sound Worse Than Pressed Records?
Over the years of cutting at Pressure Mastering, we’ve regularly come across the claim that lathe cuts don’t sound as good as pressed records, or that they have more surface...
DIY Vacuum and Chip Jar
We've had a lot of requests from customers on how to build our vacuum system, so here it is. Low power, low noise, and straightforward to put together. We sell...
DIY Vacuum and Chip Jar
We've had a lot of requests from customers on how to build our vacuum system, so here it is. Low power, low noise, and straightforward to put together. We sell...
A Very Basic Crest Factor Analogy...
Crest factor is the gap between your peak level and your RMS level, and for vinyl it’s one of the most useful single numbers for working out how audio is...
A Very Basic Crest Factor Analogy...
Crest factor is the gap between your peak level and your RMS level, and for vinyl it’s one of the most useful single numbers for working out how audio is...
Accessible HF Limiting for Vinyl Mastering
We wanted to put together some tips on HF limiting for anyone learning to master for vinyl. The industry standard hardware for this is the Maselec MDS-2, but costing several...
Accessible HF Limiting for Vinyl Mastering
We wanted to put together some tips on HF limiting for anyone learning to master for vinyl. The industry standard hardware for this is the Maselec MDS-2, but costing several...
Custom Actions for Cutting in Reaper
We use Reaper for mastering at our studio, Pressure Mastering. The ability to create scripts and custom actions saves us huge amounts of time, and we often get questions about...
Custom Actions for Cutting in Reaper
We use Reaper for mastering at our studio, Pressure Mastering. The ability to create scripts and custom actions saves us huge amounts of time, and we often get questions about...