Keynote: The Future of Audio Mastering

Music production is more squarely in-the-box than ever before. Mastering is one aspect of the production chain that has been slow to embrace that paradigm. Strangely enough however, "automated mastering" has shown up on the radar and suggests that perhaps mastering is something that will gradually fall into the hands of machines. So what IS the future of mastering? Mastering expert Jonathan Wyner will look at how mastering has been approached to date and will unpack some ideas about the future of mastering, automated vs. assistive tools, where we have come from and where we are going. Is it man vs. machine or man leveraging the power of the machine? You’ll hear tips for maximizing your masters for distribution, and you'll also hear a man vs. machine mastering shootout!