Color in Mastering: The Creative Side of the Discipliners

Chair:
Jonathan Wyner, M Works Studios/iZotope/Berklee College of Music - Boston, MA, USA; M Works Mastering
Panelists:
Adam Ayan, Gateway Mastering Studios - Portland, ME USA
Heba Kadry, Heba Kadry Mastering - Brooklyn, NY, USA
Bob Katz, Digital Domain Mastering - Orlando, FL, USA
Alex Psaroudakis, Alex Psaroudakis Mastering - Brooklyn, NY, USA

The last several years have given rise to many resources to help people understand the core values and navigate the basic tasks of mastering, but, with few exceptions, there haven't been many discussions from credible sources about circuit topology, color and creative choices, how to evaluate them and how to think about their use. We include some objective measurements of emulations versus real to buttress up our subjective opinions of the topic.