Sam Fischmann - The TRUTH About Mastering in Modern Music Production (AKA: It's OK To Master Your Own Music)

Progressions: Success in the Music Industry

09/04/24 • 56 min

Sam Fischmann is a cofounder of the audio plugin company Musik Hack. As a software developer and musician he is passionate about demystifying the mastering process and making it accessible to everybody by creating tools that enable musicians to focus more on the creative and less on the technical.

In this episode, you'll learn about:

The Truth Behind Loudness Standards
Where the -14LUFS Target Came From
Developing and Trusting Your Own Taste
How Machine Learning Can Help Us Build Better Audio Tools
The Ethics of AI Audio Tools
Growth through mistakes
Separating Creative Instincts from Technical Instincts
Owning the Role That You Are Best at, Even If It’s Not The One You Want

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Credits:

Guest: Sam Fischmann

Host: Travis Ference

Editor: Stephen Boyd

Theme Music: inter.ference

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09/04/24 • 56 min

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Progressions: Success in the Music Industry - Sam Fischmann - The TRUTH About Mastering in Modern Music Production (AKA: It's OK To Master Your Own Music)

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Let's get rid of the technical hurdles so you can spend a lot more time on the creative hurdles. That's what we want to do as musicians, as producers, as mixers. That's Sam Fishman, the software developer musician behind the audio plugin company, Music hack. Since Sam makes a mastering plugin, I thought it would be fun to get his perspective on the role of mastering in modern music production, which we obviously got into, but we also got into so much more than that. E

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