San Francisco-based Senior Contributing Editor Joe Gore has recorded with Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Tracy Chapman, Courtney Love, Marianne Faithfull, Les Claypool, Flea, DJ Shadow, John Cale, and many ...

Discover useful AI tools for independent artists, from songwriting and rough demos to stem separation, audio cleanup, mixing, ...

Bold, chunky interfaces. Limiting is great on reverb and delay tails. StereoTools is highly useful and versatile. Ultimate-D is simple yet comprehensive. Limiting not so transparent. Metering can be ...

SoundCloud and Dolby have teamed up to bring the latter’s suite of mastering tools to the audio platform, so users can produce content in high quality. For SoundCloud owners looking to produce the ...

Now well into the 2020s, we’re awash with ways to make release-quality music at home, via user-friendly DAWs, expansive sample libraries and fine-tuning mix plugins. But, despite access to tools that ...

The Audiophiliac went to New York's top mastering house, Sterling Sound, to discuss the state of the art with mastering engineer Ryan Smith. I recently chatted with mastering engineer Ryan Smith at ...

The Audiophiliac interviews mastering engineer Dave McNair about who should get most of the credit for great sounding recordings, and his answer may surprise you. A lot of audiophiles believe that ...