Hello to all those still alive. This month I want to look at the various uses of EQ used in mastering. Mastering essentially is the art...

Ahh yes, it’s time to look at the most powerful of all audio tools, the Equaliser. The equaliser, or EQ as it is commonly referred to is...

Hi folks, this month I want to look at two of the most powerful processors in the mastering chain, compressors & limiters. They are...

Blimey!!! has it been a year already. Well, yes it has and here i am ready to talk about the equipment or “gear” that is commonly used to...

1974 when I was 14 years old. This is when I acquired a 12 band per channel JVC SEA-70 graphic equaliser and started mastering. Hello...

Hi folks, carrying on from last month i want to look at formats and related topics for streaming audio. Unfortunately for studio owners,...

Hi everyone, this month I want to look at “Streaming” audio and in particular the formats and technical requirements of some of the more...

Hello again folks. This month i want to wrap up the vinyl chapter by looking at the different options available to artists who are...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Greetings noisemakers, last month i looked at how to prepare your files ready for mastering. This month i will address the thorny...

Tim writes a monthly column for Oxford's Nightshift magazine: Well hello people and in particular musicians and artists who make music...

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

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

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

Tim Turan 22-07-2016 Interviewed By Professor Martin Cloonan, Glasgow University. I think that you can facilitate stuff but as soon as...