Mastering Boot Camp™

In a perfect world, everyone would be able to send off their tracks to a high-end mastering facility with a dedicated mastering engineer to put the final polish on their tracks. But with changes in budgets, work flow and even the ways and reasons people record music, more and more home or small studio owners find themselves needing to handle “mastering” duties themselves.

Next Mastering Boot Cap will be Sunday July 24, 3-6pm at Veneto West Studio in Los Angeles. Cost is $20 (payable in advance). Contact » us to register and for full details and location. +

>> Sunday July 24th is sold out we have added another session July 25, 7-10pm <<

Next one after that will be in the Washington DC area a Chuck Levin’s Washington Music Center August 6th, noon to 3pm. Purchase $20 tickets for Chucks online

“MasteringBoot Camp” is a workshop created by Ronan Chris Murphy to give small studio owners a better understanding of the mastering process, and strategies to do better “home brew” mastering in any studio situation. This intense session of Mastering Boot Camp™, dives into understanding the tools of mastering, how they apply to the mastering process and strategies for using both high end analog hardware as well as inexpensive plug-ins to get the best results from your studio.

The “loudness war” is also discussed in detail, but from an unbiased perspective, demonstrating the pros and cons of loud masters, and tricks for making loud masters sound the best they can if you want your masters to have the loudness of current levels.

This workshop is currently being scheduled at various places around the world, and is presented as a program of several hours for large audiences and full day intensive for smaller groups.

This workshop is taught using Pro Tools, but is designed so that it can be applied to any DAW.