100%!! -Justin

It's a great way to go. So glad to hear it is resonated! -Justin

Awesome to hear! So glad to be useful Ryan. -Justin

You are beyond right! I can definitely relate. -Justin

Thanks for checking it out Adam! Hope to see more of you around. Very best, Justin

Awesome to hear Diego, glad to be useful! -Justin

Awesome to hear, thanks for being a member! -Justin

Glad you are digging it Craig! -Justin

Hey Andy, Do you have a lathe? :-D If not, you're just doing a digital master that will be pressed to vinyl. My approach? 95 times out of 100 I treat it the same as the main digital master. For most clients, I just do one great sounding master that they can use for anything: Streaming, download, CD, vinyl, tape cassette, etc. For an extremely small minority of clients who have lots of budget and lots of fans, you can do an alternate version of the master for vinyl, usually with less dynamic range processing, as loudness masters less in that format. There are a couple of other small considerations around low end... It's generally advisable to avoid really loud, really low frequency stereo bass, jus to be safe, but the person cutting your master to lacquer will have an elliptical filter to help mitigate this if needed. And, there is a tradeoff between how long a record can be with how much low frequency amplitude you are trying to cram onto it. But again, this is generally addressed by the person actually cutting the lacquer, and they may make recommendations on that front if the record is so long and so bottom heavy that it might warrant being a double album to avoid losing some lows. But that's an uncommon conversation to have. There's really not too much to worry about here! Just make it sound great :-) I talk a little bit about vinyl in the course, but it''s really just a bit more detail on these core ideas. It will definitely help give you the confidence you seek though, and I think could help you tremendously in general. Very best, Justin

Hm. I guess you don’t listen to a lot of podcasts? :-) Some of the biggest podcasts in the world start with 10 minutes or more of advertisements. I do about 90 seconds in the middle and 90 seconds at the end on average. So it’s less than the norm. I went a little long at the end of this one because I was genuinely excited about the new mic. But by that time the episode is basically over anyway! The benefit of this general approach is that you get fewer video ads interrupting the episode throughout, and I can afford to do content with more depth, more often, instead of doing other things. (You also have the option to skip ahead.) I know I’ll get more views of I end up serving you even more ads by doing lots of highly edited 10 minute surface level fluff videos, but that’s just not my jam. It’s not what I like to watch or listen to, it’s not what really changes lives, and it’s not what I care to focus on right now. Hope that makes sense! -Justin

@@SonicScoopyoure truly such a great man!!!!!!!

Become a better musician! :-) Or, failing that, at least become a more emotionally compelling one, warts and all. But that’s kind of the same thing. -Justin

@@SonicScoop I was told that I can fix all that in the mix? Jk, I do my thing fine. But I’m having a blast learning mixing. Thanks very much for sharing your knowledge and doing so with such clear expertise.

I'm into it :-) -Justin

Haven’t heard back from him. He doesn’t really have contact info I can find aside from Instagram, where our message is probably buried under mountains of spam. -Justin

Glad you could tune in now Benj! -Justin

Very relatable Tyler! Thanks for the comment. I have a whole episode about exactly that idea: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zqx6m9N9lbyskX0.html

@@SonicScoop 🎯🎯🎯 Thanks for everything Justin! You’ve helped me a lot!

Thanks so much for the kind words Francesco!! -Justin

@@SonicScoop Just the truth. 🙂