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This is the blog for Fluid Mastering, where we’re going to be sharing some thoughts and tips about mastering, but we also invite you to get in touch, tell us about your mastering [...]

Forgive us dear viewer for our absence; it has been a shocking eight whole years since we last updated this blog…

Occasionally when browsing the internet looking for amusing felines or creases in the matrix we discover ourselves peering back out of the abyss. Here are a couple of recent appearances… [...]

We occasionally get enquiries from potential clients who want to hear “Before and After” samples of our work, and wonder where to find such examples on our website. The fact is we have never [...]

Welcome to the latest in our series of SoundPosts where we showcase some of the more interesting, noteworthy, or just plain great-sounding music that has come through the doors of our mastering [...]

Fluid Mastering‘s Nick Watson talks about his initial impressions of this new addition to our main mastering studio. Last Summer we tried out a couple of new bits of mastering kit; and we [...]

This is a surprisingly frequent problem, usually resulting from mixes being created in-the-box by bouncing or exporting a mix-down between left and right locators, placed on the beat. Let’s [...]

In the first of these posts I talked about how excessive levels combined with dynamic processing at various points in the production can give rise to a lack of energy and punch in a mix, making [...]

We were recently paid a visit by producer Phil English (Feeder, Biffy Clyro) and Mike Banks from the renowned RecordProduction.com website. They wanted us to help them with their enquiries. We [...]

We’re often asked “what makes a track un-masterable?” and although that’s an impossible question to answer, there are a few common practises, mistakes and misdemeanours which can prevent [...]