Gas 0095 Quotes: Bob Katz

Todays Gas 0095 quote comes from Bob Katz, one of the best known and highly regarded mastering engineers, he’s also an inventor and author, and owns and runs the highly successful Digital Domain mastering company.

Mat Jarvis’ restoration of Gas 0095; it sounds to me like it was originally mixed to analog tape, congratulations on doing a good, conservative [...]

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Gas 0095 Quotes: Bob Katz

For the Future Music Magazine feature on Gas 0095,  Bob Katz, world famous mastering engineer was kind enough to give us a quote about the album…

Mat Jarvis’ restoration of Gas 0095; it sounds to me like it was originally mixed to analog tape, congratulations on doing a good, conservative job with the noise reduction.
I must say that I’m [...]

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Loudness Wars, the First Strike

There has been a silent/ not-so-silence war being raged over the past ten years, the loudness wars, and Metallica are the first casualties.
Dynamic (audio) compression is good, it makes things sound warmer, larger, and evens out lumpy recordings. But if you over compress, you make everything sound the same volume, the subtle details are lost [...]

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