#denis blackham

"I'm usually mastering ten hours a day, five or more days a week. Some days it's just one album, and other days I could be mastering three tracks for one client, one for another, and so on. So my style of mastering has to be able to adjust very quickly. I enjoy many types of music, so I can really enjoy mastering BJ or Eleh, and go straight into a country music project and enjoy that just as much. As a mastering engineer, I tend not to be listening in the same way a consumer listens. Clients can ask me what I think of a track, but I'm listening in a technical way, and not from a "This is a great track" point of view. I don't really hear the album for what it is until the label send me a finished copy, and I can enjoy holding it, enjoying the sleeve design, reading the sleeve notes and credits, and then putting on the pressed disc."