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Preparing your tracks for mastering is crucial to achieving a professional, polished sound. In this guide, we cover the essential steps to ensure your music is ready for the mastering process, including tips on keeping your mix clean, exporting in the right format, organizing your files, and providing a reference track. Proper preparation not only enhances the final product but also streamlines the workflow with your mastering engineer. Follow these best practices to give your tracks the best chance to shine.

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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Nick Landis
Free Plugins

Who doesn't love free plugins?

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Nick Landis
It’s The Sound Baby!

Originally published in the October 2023 issue of Rock an

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John McNerney

Since the new version of drush has come out and now requires Composer, most of the guides I've seen online don't work anymore.  Hopefully, this guide will prevent others from the headaches I went through getting this setup on my host.

First, I'm assuming you already have SSH access to your host.  If not, go get that done and come back to install drush.  It will be a little different depending on your hosting provider.

Make sure you're in your home directory

The Music Producers Guild (MPG) in partnership with the European Broadcast Union (EBU) have now standardized a metadata field for the International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) in wav files!  This issue has been a long time overdue, but now finally gained enough traction to make it into a standard.  The ISRC can now be embedded in wav files inside the core metadata.  This means it will follow the file where ever it goes.

Today, I mastered my 2000th project!  I can't hardly believe it.  I started working at Terra Nova in 2005.  From then to today has been about 9 years, or 3229 days, or about 461 weeks.  Over the last nine years, i've averaged about 4 albums a week.  I would like to thank my family, my mentors and all my clients that let me work on thier music.  I plan on having some kind of party or get-together for a celebration, details will be sent out later.

Nick Landis has been elected to the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences - Texas Chapter Board of Governors for the 2014-2016 term.  Nick has previously served on the board of governors from 2008 to 2012 and as Vice President from 2011 to 2012.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

5:30 – 9:00 p.m.

Four Seasons Hotel (on the lawn overlooking Lady Bird Lake) - 98 San Jacinto Boulevard - Austin, TX 78701

Live music - Food - Cash Bar

The new ExSRT website is up and going again!  After about a year down, we have a lot of info that was lost when we lost the last server.  If you are alumni of the SRT program, please go to the site and register/update your profile.  If you know someone, send them that way too.  We lost the contact info for much of our membership before.  New content should be coming soon.

A Texas Chapter Professional Development Conference

Saturday, June 29, 2013

W Austin Hotel

The Texas Chapter will present a day-long professional development event with insightful and inspiring presentations by trail blazers, innovators, and leaders in entertainment, business, and technology.

The Recording Academy P&E Wing hosted a great professional development retreat at Blue Rock Artist Ranch with Andrew Scheps, Eric Boulanger and Tim Palmer all speaking.  Andrew spoke about delivering quality listening experiences to the music consumer, Eric spoke about the Mastered for iTunes program and Tim moderated a panel discussion with everyone.  This was all capped off with a live performace by Phoebe Hunt.