MASTERING ENGINEERS ADVICE — vinyl

 So today I'm going to give you a little quick tip on how to high pass in the low end, the way that I do as a mastering engineer. Now, when you high pass in the low end, if you listen to a lot of stuff that used to be on vinyl, 70’s stuffs. Even a lot of, sort of guitar based music, independent music, it's very bright. It's not a lot of low end going on. The reason for that was you couldn't get loads and loads of bottom end on vinyl because the group goes really wide because...

TRANSCRIPT / MP3 So, vinyl masters. There’s no reason why you should need a different master for vinyl than you do for CD or streaming. It depends how far you want to go with your vinyl master, but if you’ve mastered it correctly, it should translate straight to a cutting lathe, and they wouldn’t need to put any filters on it. The reason they do that is that the lathe doesn’t like essy noises. The stylus goes left to right when it’s in the top end which has high-speed frequencies. If it’s super bright in there, then it goes fast,...