In this week's Podcast Julian is joined by Ashea and Ian Shepherd for a discussion about about mastering in the streaming age.

Ian Shepherd is a mastering engineer of 25 years experience who has become well known for his work around the detrimental effects of the loudness wars. He runs the Production Advice blog and hosts The Mastering Show podcast.

Talking Points

• Mastering for Streaming Platforms, let’s talk specifics
• Loundness Normalisation and Album Normalisation
• Loudness Wars, are they still a thing? Do we still need loud masters?
• True Peak Limiters vs normal limiters
• Clipping
• Widening mixes

Finds Of The Week

• Julian - Genelec GRADE Reports
• Ashea - Pope Audio
• Ian - AM coustics, Who Killed the KLF