Well, here it is. Nothing too exciting. As if you couldn’t guess, my name is John Scrip. I’m an audio mastering engineer and a motorcycle enthusiast.
ON MASTERING AND MOTORCYCLING:
A lot of people don’t really understand the concept of audio mastering... It’s probably the least glamorous aspect of the music production process. People write songs and go into studios to record the individual instruments and parts (tracking). Then, they mix all those recorded elements together in a way that turns all those individual sounds into a cohesive recording (mixing). The mastering enigneer’s responsibility is to take all of those individual mixes and “turn them into a record” - for lack of a better term. To give them a cohesive quality throughout the project.
EQ adjustments, dynamics tweaking, the finished volume - Each track is processed to bring out the best qualities of that track while in turn, bringing out the best qualities of the project as a whole into a compliant production master from which all copies “on the shelf” will be made. Motorcycling is another story -- A lot of people use the “If I had to explain it, you wouldn’t understand” gibberish. Personally, I think that’s a cop-out. If I had to explain it to you, I’d fail. I can’t explain it to myself...
Anyway - Since I understand that they have the Internet on computers now, I figured I should jump on the band-wagon (no pun intended) and roll me out a nifty web site.