Nick Landis

This blog is an extension of the Ten Top Music Distribution Services blog post but focusing on services that offer distribution for immersive audio formats, like Dolby Atmos.

How to Prepare Your Tracks for Mastering

Preparing your tracks properly before sending them for mastering is a crucial step that often gets overlooked.

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Control 24 Power Supply Repair

Repairing a power supply can seem daunting, but it's a valuable skill for any studio tech, especially for those working wi

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Free Plugins

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Santiago Jiménez, Jr. is seen as a standard bearer of deep conjunto tradition and his latest album, "El Chief", is no exception. This record is a collection of his father's original songs and Conjunto standards produced by Adam Ahrens at Magnolia Recording Studio, released by Bull Calf Records, and mastered by Nick Landis. This recording is sparse and traditional featuring voice accompanied by accordion and bajo sexto all acoustically recorded.

Starting in the new 2020 year prize cycle, the Pulitzer Prize Board will award a new Pulitzer Prize for excellence in Audio Journalism. The new prize will be awarded for "for a distinguished example of audio journalism that serves the public interest, characterized by revelatory reporting and illuminating storytelling." Journalists in the United States will be eligible to enter if their publication regularly publishes stories in audio format.

Starting August 7th, 2019 all previously branded 'Mastered For iTunes' content is changing to 'Apple Digital Masters'. The change will be featured both in the iTunes store and Apple Music streaming service.

Nick Landis Mastering was on the Mastered for iTunes official 'MFiT Providers List' and will continue to be on the Apple Digital Masters Provider List. For my clients to get into this program, they need to request Apple Digital Masters as one of their delivery formats and we will provide everything Apple needs to get your content branded with the special badge.

Nick Landis Mastering DDP Player is included with all DDP masters from Nick Landis Mastering. Clients can listen directly to their masters, export various files, burn discs (if your computer has a burner), and check metadata like CD-Text and ISRC. All of this is possible just from clicking on the appropriate player icon; no software needs installed, the player can run directly from the file.

December 10, 2004, is the day I first met and worked with Jerry Tubb, and it is one of the days that changed my life forever. We were mastering an album called Shue's Cafe by Kris Kimura and this picture was taken during that session. The very next summer, I would be Terra Nova's first intern and quickly became a permanent part of the team.

Starting April of 2019, I will be the Vice President of the Central Texas Chapter of the Audio Engineering Society. Last year, the Central Texas Section of the AES has gained new life and has been hosting monthly events. During that first event in 2018, we elected new leaders. One of those leaders has now moved to Nashville and I'm fillin in for the rest of the first term.

I finally did it! I started an LLC for all the work I do. Nothing long to post here about it, just marking the milestone.