This month I’m looking at the cutting and pressing process. After all the hardwork of recording, mixing and mastering we get to the “real deal” stage of actu...

Hello good people. This month I’m going to take a look at three more important factors when mastering for vinyl records: dynamics, levels and stereo width. I...

Hello PVC lovers. Vinyl is a very difficult beast to tame. It is very temperamental and can get quite upset at the slightest deviation from its comfort zone....

Leaving the CD behind us for a while, I want to focus over the next few months on what is undoubtedly the most toxic plastic on the planet: VINYL... or to gi...

So far we have peeped at file preparation, mused over metadata and now we are going to put it all together to make a CD. One of the first questions I have fo...

Greetings noisemakers; last month I looked at how to prepare your files ready for mastering. This month I will address the thorny problems of Metadata: the s...

Tim writes a monthly column for Oxford's Nightshift magazine: Hello people, and in particular musicians and artists who make music for public consumption. I’...

Celebrating 40 years since this seminal album was first released, The Ruts today released Tim's remastered version. We were honoured to have Segs and Ruffy i...

Mastered for iTunes (MFiT) is a very high quality 24bit AAC (Advanced Audio Codec) audio file available from iTunes. It sounds far superior to regular MP3 fi...

Published on March 18th, 2013 | Jonny Abrams Rocksucker recently had the dual privilege of getting to both sit in on Tim Turan mastering an album and ask him...

Tim Turan interviewed by Professor Martin Cloonan, University of Glasgow on 22nd July 2016: I think that you can facilitate stuff but as soon as you try and ...