Puremix Mentors | Live Q&A Session | Brian Lucey Mastering Engineer

Puremix mentors live Q&A session is with Brian Lucey. He is a mastering engineer and is hear to talk about his mastering process and philosophy as well as a live mastering demonstration where he walks us through how he works on a set of pop tracks.
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[elonthebass]

Brian is a real dude! I've met my fair share of mastering engineers. None of them were ever this accommodating with me. Most that I've met were stubborn, duplicitous, vague and downright phony! But this guy seems genuinely interested in giving people useful insight and tips on mastering as well as any topics pertaining to it. He never gets too esoteric or wax-poetic or philosophical. Humble and plain spoken. Good on him! I really enjoyed this. Thank you.

[zionrecordingstudio]

First thing I would like to say is Brian Lucey is an absolutely amazing guy. I find that no one likes when engineers (mixing or mastering) tells it how it is from there perspective. Everyone wants to follow what seems to be "THE WAY TO DO IT" when really everything is subjective and its the end result that counts. Brian Lucey is an extremely successful mastering engineer who didn't come on here and tell us bull shit that he thinks we need to hear to make us happy. I can feel that he has given us a snippet of his years of experience which I thank him for. This has got to be one of the best and most insightful mastering videos I have watched. Thank you to Brian and Puremix cheer guys.

[elsf]

I love this guys perspective on things.

[qazwert]

Really enjoyed the whole stream. Lots of great information.

[carlahaash]

The best part of the video is at the end when Fab takes the conversation to something real and actually important.

[hitsounds]

Really enjoyed this. Came to this as someone who has mastered his own stuff and learnt a lot. It's be interesting to know how much mastering the negative commenters have done as to me they come off as teenagers who've once pulled the brake in their dad's car to 'drift' criticising Ken Block.. BTW The stuff good mastering engineers can do with EQ and the choices they make still seems like knowledge of a dark art to me!

[davidjonathan]

what's the name of Brian's place? where is it at? Brian is such a great guy! love his views, how humble and knowledgeable he is.. absolutely LOVE his ear and taste. Thanks for having him!

[petter]

Would be interesting to hear what speaker positions one should use. E. g a small bedroom studio.

[DrAudioBot]

funny how I can hear a reverb whenever he stops a song while digi EQing. seems like he added reverb ontop (although 95% of mastering engineers claim no never use it) also you'll always hear/read "Eq boosts or cuts should never go over 1-2dB" while it's obvious he makes some quick 5dB cuts and 4dB boosts before even going analog

[carlahaash]

That mastering room seems very small, and also he put a lot of Realtraps Diffusors Those black walls), interestingly, the guys from real traps in their video explaining diffusion suggest that is not so good to have diffusors in small rooms at smaller distance from the listener... I wish they could talk more about the room and have a better pan with the camera to see a better perspective.

[adivaio]

Great philosophy beyond! All along with some farts!

[tonyhall]

01:12:02 "He doesn't hear or believe in cable tone" No one does. Because it's nonsense.

[FitzYouStudios]

If you are trying to waste time then sure...watch it!

[robburgess]

Music volume at 100, talking volume at 20 - I can't watch this, once he starts playing music the volume jumps kill me.

[TheAffeMaria]

"vibe is so important" followed by "sequence is so important" followed by heavy ass skipping through the songs. makes my brain hurt. i´m just never digging mastering engineers who don´t have the patience and work as they listen to the whole thing. the skipping makes it feel technical only, loudness, frequency, but the last guy to touch some art should respect the whole and not just it´s technical specifications. makes everything else he has to say kind of dispensable for me.