This is not a post designed to give you the ins and outs of how to write or record a hit single.  Nor will it show you how to promote your music or which labels to contact.  This is a post about an unsigned band from Michigan that doesn’t tour, doesn’t play at local clubs, nor […]

THANK YOU!!!  Audio Bay Mastering began in late 1998.  Wow!  20 years later and I have over a thousand clients in 28 different countries and in nearly every state in the union.   Over the years I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with amazing musical talent and engineers and have met some incredible people along […]

As a mastering engineer, my first job when beginning a new project is to enquire how the song/album will be marketed.  Is the music solely for digital distribution? CD replication? What about vinyl cutting?  All of these playback mediums require a different master. The difference between an audio master for CD Replication and vinyl is […]

The 2018 UK Mastering Conference has announced it’s workshops and topics for the weekend event.  The conference is scheduled to take place September 21-23, 2018, in London.  I am pleased to announce that I am planning to attend.  Some of the more interesting workshops include the following: Audio Mastering in the past, present and future […]

The Audio Bay Mastering recently mastered an album from The Ultimate 3, their debut effort, titled “Day In The Sun.”  The first release of the album, a song titles “Sorry,” is currently in heavy rotation in the United Kingdom on 97.4 Rock (Preston), Viking FM (Yorkshire) and Northsound (Aberdeen) to name a few.  The album was recorded […]

Mastering for Vinyl LPs are staging a big comeback, which means there’s a lot to know before you send your music off for pressing. By Scott Dorsey There’s something of a small renaissance in LP production these days, and we’re starting to see a lot of people in small studios producing material for issue on LP […]

In the last decade vinyl has made a comeback, particularly with the younger generation.  The realization of how good vinyl sounds is part of the reason for its insurgence with millennials.  But the main factor, according to studies, is the act of holding a physical copy of the music in their hands.  The interactive experience […]

The annual NAMM Show (National Association of Music Merchants) was once again a success in highlighting some innovative and exciting advancements in audio processing.  Of course most of the excitement at the show revolved around software and digital audio advancements but my attention was focused on analog processing.  My hat comes off to SSL,  Tube-Tech […]

What is a Word Clock? Every digital device, from a simple portable CD player to a Pro Tools HD rig, has a word clock. Not to be confused with sync clock (like MTC or SMPTE), word clock is what tells a A/D or D/A converter when to take the sample. It fires an impulse to the […]