EP 234: Gavin Lurssen – The Importance of Your Signal Chain

Gavin Lurssen has been a mastering engineer since 1991. He is a thirteen-time Grammy nominee and four-time Grammy winner. Artists whose albums he has mastered include Ringo Starr, Jackson Browne, the Foo Fighters, Ben Harper, Queens of the Stone Age, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Eric Clapton, Sara Bareilles, and Chvrches, to name just a few. Soundtracks include Game of Thrones, Jack Ryan, The Mandalorian, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, The Flash and Westworld. He is a graduate of The Berklee College of Music in Boston and is a recipient of their Distinguished Alumni Award.

 

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:

  • Working with Doug Sax
  • Setting expectations with clients about what they want vs. what they need
  • Why loudness doesn’t matter in mastering
  • How streaming services alter your music
  • The ways that saturation can make your masters sound better
  • Clipping vs saturation
  • Why the order of your signal chain matters
  • How de-essers can be used for more than just correcting sibilance
  • The Lurssen Mastering Console plugin
  • Having clean signal chains
  • How gainstaging impacts everything in your signal chain

To learn more about Gavin Lurssen, visit: https://lurssenmastering.com/

 

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