What is mastering? Starting with a brief historical overview that looks at how the job of mastering has changed from the era of vinyl, through CDs and digital streaming, this workshop walks participants through basic mastering equipment and studio setups, and common issues and best practices for production, based on our own experience in mastering. 

Together we will look at converters, volume control, understanding meters such as DbFS, Peak RMS, Loudness, and the importance of understanding your monitoring situation and treating your studio space. We will also go through a few examples and offer tips based on our own mastering work, pointing out common issues in tracks that we receive from artists, and identifying which ones you might be able to handle yourself versus those that are best left to the mastering engineer.

• The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.

• We ask for 10-15€ as a donation and we have two free social spots.

• To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com or fill this form.

• Refund policy: We don’t do refunds, as we are a voluntary based collective and all the money goes towards the artists.

BIO
Queer Ear Mastering - Tara Transitory and Nguyễn Baly started Queer Ear Mastering in Berlin out of the necessity to create a safer space for female and queer artists to get their music mastered, though they are not exclusive and everyone is welcome. With a combined experience of over two decades working with sound in music, contemporary art, performing arts, audio post-production and television, they provide not just technical support but dramaturgical advice from a variety of perspectives.  Their expertise covers a wide variety of styles and they have mastered for artists such as Audrey Chen, Lucrecia Dalt, Sarah Farina, Odete and Poisonous Relationship aka Jamie Crewe amongst others.