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Bob Macciochi @MaccSCMastering

Bob Macciochi is a mastering engineer at scmastering.com

Joined July 2012
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WTF is dither all about? bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

WTF is dither all about?

Wotcher all. Sorry being quiet on here but I’m working the ol’ spuds off.Just wrote this on the quick and thought I’d share it. As an old friend of mine used to say, ‘the on…

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Dealing with old stereo breaks bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

Dealing with old stereo breaks

[This started as a Facebook post responding to someone wondering about their old break sounding good in stereo but crap in mono. Various suggestions were made, including ‘turn the M up’…

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VVV quick, vvv important point bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

VVV quick, vvv important point

Hey all, absolutely busier than than busiest thing you can think of. Not least cos I’m getting married next week. But in the midst of working as much as humanly possible, this occurred to me;…

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Check Your Mix, Don’t Wreck Your Mix Pt. 2: The Wreckoning bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

Check Your Mix, Don’t Wreck Your Mix Pt. 2: The Wreckoning

This post is a follow up / addendum to a post from 2018 (WTF?!). If you haven’t, I’d suggest reading that first. I thought I’d continue from that article with a similar terrible t…

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Interview with Matt Davis bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

Interview with Matt Davis

Matt Davis falls into a very specific category for me. I’ve never met him, and never heard any of his work, but I have the highest possible respect for him. Some people just know WTF is what,…

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Chasing LUFS bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

Chasing LUFS

Written in response to a fairly standard ‘the numbers say X, can you make it louder?’ email. I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and it finally burst out. I didnR…

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Quick Bettermaker Mastering Compressor review bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

Quick Bettermaker Mastering Compressor review

Typed this on Gear….. space, thought I might as well bung it here. Lots happening here peeps, sorry for silence. More stuff soon, honest. ********* Ok, I wanted to write more about this comp …

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GOLY Dynamic shelving equaliser review bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

GOLY Dynamic shelving equaliser review

Hey hey everybody :) This review will start with the now-standard apology to the manufacturer, for the lengthy delay in writing this review. I’ll follow that with the same reason I’ve g…

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Bob Olhsson quote bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

Bob Olhsson quote

Just saw this courtesy of the Gearslutz mastering forum. He puts it much better than I ever have. And you can’t argue with Bob O, I don’t care who you are. ‘Mastering is creativel…

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Mix headroom for the 86 billionth time bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

Mix headroom for the 86 billionth time

Response on a friend’s Facebook page, essentially asking “how much headroom is good for dance music?”. Short answer – it doesn’t matter. Just stay under 0dBFS and don&…

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Limiting / clipping things in the mix bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

Limiting / clipping things in the mix

“… Do you think it’s degrading my sound quality to be limiting my groups in the mix down process? To be honest, I never use compressors, only limiters if I’m trying to contr…

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51dB Audio PEQEX review bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

51dB Audio PEQEX review

I want to start this review with an apology. I’d like to apologise to Peter for it taking so very long to get this thing written. I could blame Coronavirus, lockdown and all that stuff. But t…

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Technical frustrations be damned bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

Technical frustrations be damned

[An email reply from a few years back – it’s been in draft on this blog for years now but there’s no reason not to post it…. Background: 2 years of work on an album and it&#…

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I’m alive bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

I’m alive

Hey hey everyone :)I know not many people read this blog, but those who do say it’s useful. So I thought I’d pop in and say that I and the blog are both alive. Coronavirus / old age hav…

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Mix Buss Compression / Limiting – check your mix, don’t wreck your mix bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

Mix Buss Compression / Limiting – check your mix, don’t wreck your mix

Sorry for the terrible title everyone. I wrote this in reply to a client wondering about all this sort of thing. Standard disclaimer: it’s not perfect but it can help a lot. “I know eve…

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Guess what? Sidechaining! bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

Guess what? Sidechaining!

Been a while eh? Here’s another one anyway. Client: “How was the kick drum level in the mix?” Kick drum wise, it’s actually a little hard to say. I mean, it’s absolute…

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Sample rate, bit depth etc bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

Sample rate, bit depth etc

Just wrote this out and thought I should post it on here… probably posted the same kind of thing before but never mind. *** Q: “Should I be bouncing [at a] higher [sample rate/bit depth…

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Monoing everything below whateverHz on your master buss bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

Monoing everything below whateverHz on your master buss

Note: I started writing this article FOUR YEARS ago. And it’s still going on. Might as well publish it, eh… It’s a familiar pattern. Somewhere along the way (thanks internet!), so…

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Brief notes on MS stuff bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

Brief notes on MS stuff

[Another one from an email. I have edited my reply just a little for clarity] “Do you do Mid/Side type processing when you master? Like, compress it separately maybe?” ….. it depe…

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Musings on mastering your own stuff bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2…

Musings on mastering your own stuff

It’s happened a few times now, where I’ve had to dig some old relic I made in a former life and master it. Luckily back in the old days I was thorough, and have a 24-bit premaster with …

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