Bang Zoom Productions Mastering Mastering analog and digital audio

The current state of mastering audio

The current state of mastering audio

Mastering audio has been going thru a few transitions as of late. There seem to be two competing roads. Mp3 and equivalents compression where the strategy is to make the file size as small as possible and to hell with the sound. The other road is the offerings of high bit rate and sample rate files, the introduction of Flac files and mastered for iTunes specifications, not to mention the phoenix like resurgence of LPs.