TW Walsh: Understanding How Loudness Affects Your Masters

TW Walsh is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and engineer who's worked with Sufjan Stevens, Jimmy Eat World, Julien Baker, J. Tillman (Father John Misty), Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats, Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie), The Shins, Chris Staples, Damien Jurado, David Bazan, Starflyer 59 and many others.
Over the years, he's been in several bands, including Pedro the Lion, Lo Tom, Headphones, and The Soft Drugs. Currently based in Boston, he continues to master records, write and record songs, and collaborate with other artists.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:
To go to recording school or not?
Making the switch from analog to digital
How loud should your mixes and masters be?
Navigating the loudness wars
How loudness can impact the sound quality of a mix
Should you master to -14LUFS?
Creating cohesiveness between songs on an album
Using AI tools during the mastering process
Personal taste vs. consumer expectations
Using templates in mastering
Picking a DAW for mastering
Mastering in a non-mastering-specific DAW
Why you don’t always want to master each song to sound the best it can

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