Mastering
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Sep 6, 2026
Phil SoussanGUEST
You have to have self-confidence to do that.
AndrewHOST
Well, speaking of trusting what you know, you were the judge, jury and executioner on this album, Mixing, Mastering.
AndrewHOST
Yeah.
AndrewHOST
At what point was there any song or any idea on it where you're like, I really need to get a third party's opinion on this because it's just got me stumped?
Tom SnivelyHOST
But, you know, each one was done separately.
Tom SnivelyHOST
Mastering is normally done at an album level where you're taking a whole album and mastering it at one time so that you can match things across all the songs so that they all sound about the same volume, that the bass is the same or the treble is about the same, you know, among all the songs.
Tom SnivelyHOST
So that was kind of a new thing.
Tom SnivelyHOST
And I actually changed the plugins that I was using for mastering.
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Quero lhe falar, lhe, lhe, lhe falar.
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Mastered field expands across the globe.
speaker_28UNKNOWN
Das coisas que aprendi nos discos.
speaker_27UNKNOWN
Missionary, so streets, so more livable.
Brett GurewitzGUEST
And this is my hot take.
Brett GurewitzGUEST
Mastering is not even a thing anymore.
Brett GurewitzGUEST
I mean, you know, because the mastering tools now are slapped right onto Pro Tools.
Brett GurewitzGUEST
And when your mixer is making a mix for you, he's sending you a – here's air quotes here for your listeners – a pre-mastered version.
Brett GurewitzGUEST
And so, like, that's kind of what mastering is now.
Brett GurewitzGUEST
But I would say 50 percent of the time.
Brett GurewitzGUEST
It sounds worse, not better after mastering, you know, whereas it used to be, you know, you go to Doug Sacks at Mastering Lab and it's like, oh, my God, this guy, he's a wizard.
Brett GurewitzGUEST
I love going in there and listening to it and, you know, going through the better or worse thing.
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Victoria Muffet CatesGUEST
I'm, I'm watching like a ton of videos and I'm like, like one of them is like mastering.com and like there, it's just like, you know, as far as like the treated room and everything, like,
JoshGUEST
If you record in our second bedroom, it's like where our cats hang out.
JoshGUEST
There's nothing professional looking about it.
Benedikt HeinHOST
Mastering is this dark art, this mysterious final step at the end of the record-making process, and a lot of self-recording artists and a big portion of our audience here as well doesn't fully understand it, or sometimes they confuse mastering with mixing.
Benedikt HeinHOST
And, um, this is why I'm super excited to welcome and introduce my guest today.
Benedikt HeinHOST
I am here with mastering engineer, Maher Appelbaum.
Benedikt HeinHOST
And I, I th- I kinda had a feeling that this was the case, but it's way less technical and more about the music and how it is perceived than compared to what a lot of people do when they talk about mastering.
Benedikt HeinHOST
So this is, this is really, really cool to hear.
Benedikt HeinHOST
Um, on that note, when I went to your website, I saw the kind of tagline at the top where it says, um, "Maher Appelbaum Mastering," and then "Sounds with Impact." What does that line mean to you? What, what...
Benedikt HeinHOST
How would you define impact in that case?
Maor AppelbaumGUEST
Well, yeah, you can define it in a lot of ways.
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Lead script writing and episode design by Sarah Jo.
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Audio mixing, mastering, and repair by Shane Morrow of Morrow Mixing and Mastering.
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Director of Photography, Ethan Schatz.
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A heartfelt thank you to our ground team and Patreon supporters.
Reed FoxGUEST
Yeah, well, I was living in a house with a bunch of friends, and we started Moon Magnet Collective, and it was a recording studio, and it still is.
Reed FoxGUEST
Moon Magnet Mixing and Mastering is my recording studio in Denver, but it's evolved over the years, like a lot.
Reed FoxGUEST
Yeah, award-winning!
Arica NettervilleHOST
We're going to talk about them.