This is, in our opinion, a fun and informative video on how to prepare your mixes for mastering with Joe! Topics covered include desired mix level, sampling rates, volume matching on streaming platforms…and beards.
On September 28, 2017, SonicScoop released its Music Mastering Masterclass, led by none other than Joe Lambert! Lambert walks us through the process of mastering a track from start to finish in his very own Jersey City mastering suite. The response on YouTube has been phenomenal. Enjoy!
Pitchfork contributor, Jordan Kisner, contacted us to be involved in a feature that aimed to expose the mysterious practice of audio mastering. The image used for the article is a mystical, hooded character and accurately describes how many people feel about the topic. Joe Lambert is a large part of the article and the reader gets
We’d like to congratulate client, Eighth Blackbird and producer, Bryce Dessner (The National) for their Grammy-nominated album, “Filament.” They are nominated for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance and it is well-deserved! Joe also had the great pleasure of mastering the upcoming album from Daughter, mixed by Nicolas Vernhes. “Not To Disappear” is to be released on 4AD/Glassnote
(This is part 6 of a 6-part series by staff engineer Justin Colletti. Check out part 1 on bass management, part 2 on high frequencies, part 3 on bus compression, part 4 on panning for width, part 5 on depth, and part 6 on getting better balances.) The last tip in our series is about balances. This
(This is part 6 of a 6-part series by staff engineer Justin Colletti. Check out part 1 on bass management, part 2 on high frequencies, part 3 on bus compression, part 4 on panning for width, part 5 on depth, and part 6 on getting better balances.) “Depth”, the front-to-back dimension in your mix, is another area
(This is part 6 of a 6-part series by staff engineer Justin Colletti. Check out part 1 on bass management, part 2 on high frequencies, part 3 on bus compression, part 4 on panning for width, part 5 on depth, and part 6 on getting better balances.) A great mastering engineer will often enhance the sense of
Summer doesn’t slow us down at JLM Sound. We’re just getting warmed up! As always, our clients are in the news again: July started off with a track that Joe mastered—”4th of July” by The Dig—getting selected for Spotify’s official “Weekend Buzz” playlist (followed by almost 70,000 subscribers) and picked as track of the day
(This is part 6 of a 6-part series by staff engineer Justin Colletti. Check out part 1 on bass management, part 2 on high frequencies, part 3 on bus compression, part 4 on panning for width, part 5 on depth, and part 6 on getting better balances.) Setting compressors is usually one of the last skills that
Here at JLM, we’ve been pleased to see new clients from all over the world chalk up big successes: Just a couple of weeks ago, the indie rock band Intergalactic Lovers were awarded a Gold record in their native Belgium for Little Heavy Burdens, a full-length mastered by Joe. The record even won them an