(Mastering) Puremix Mentors Interview Series | Brian Lucey's Philosophy On A Song Master

Grammy-winning Mastering Engineer Brian Lucey is one of the most prominent Industry Engineers and has worked with renowned artists such as Depeche Mode, The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys Liam Gallagher, Royal Blood, Marilyn Manson, “The Greatest Showman” and more. In the Puremix Mentors Interview Series, we catch up with him to talk mastering.

Brian Lucey's well-known philosophy on a song master is mainly focusing on emotions, feelings and how your body responds to the sound. He believes that mastering is an important part of the music creating process and that it should have an immediate impact on the listener while also maintain a timelessness aspect, that "the world will judge us by forever".

If you've watched Brian's video on puremix, you will understand that a great mastering engineer knows how to combine subtle technical moves in order to deliver the artist's music to the world in the best possible format.

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[willscherrer]

Thank you, Brian - for you time and wisdom.

[yungpepe]

Always enjoy Brian's videos, as they feel very informative and not like promos for X plugin company like so many other videos I see.

That said...I feel like there are some other developers who have caught up to or surpassed Fabfilter now. For limiters I find DMG Audio Limitless to be a class above Fabfilter and everything else, and for EQ I find the DMG Equilibrium to be at least as good as Pro-Q3, with much greater depth in terms of DSP options and greater overall value with many nice EQ Curve (Peak, Shelves, etc.) emulations.

One of the main strengths for FabFilter is how polished the UIs are. Admittedly DMG don't have the same level of polish, but once you get used to them I feel like they are more intuitive and provide better workflow than FabFilter's. Anyway, I'd suggest anyone considering buying to demo DMG vs Fabfilter before you buy.

[ionnera]

This is probably one of the best mastering breakdowns posted online. Comprehensive on the basis of perspective/perception and not moving targets like tools/formats/etc.

[DrProgNerd]

I've been putting off room treatment - because I was restless to get started. Put off room treatment - because I wanted to buy the fun plugins. Put off room treatment - because I wanted good monitors.
It's been tough trying to get my mixes sounding good. Something tells me I need room treatment. 😊

[leandrosilva]

Great Video! I Love you work Brian! I have one question.. I tried many music players outside the DAW.. And it seems to me that they all sound slightly different from what i perceive in the DAW after export (Itunes, WMP, Foobar.etc).. So what music player do you recommend that is transparent to reference and listening to music (PC or Mac).. I`m asking you because i know you are very sensitive to this kind of differences in the playback so i would love to know what you use and recommend.. Thanks!

[guitar.knackshack]

Great guy, except the mix on "THE GREATEST SHOWMAN" was horribly over compressed, I know Brian didn't mix it but puremix has that down as one of his (Brians') credits. it ruined the movie for me and the friends that watched it. We were amazed it was released with such a poor mix. Brian is a humble talented mastering engineer.

[jordogo]

mad respect for this dude's work, but also, i love that he felt the need to mention he grew up in the burbs surrounded by *gasp* white republicans—the challenge! the horror! god we live in the dumbest of times right now where people actually believe the drivel coming from all the pathetic media orgs that get richer the more we hate our neighbors.

[mikewallace]

Don’t care about the biographical information. Just teach us how to mix please