The Attack & Release Show

Episode 114: "Can You Teach Me How To Master?"

March 23rd, 2022  |  Season 5  |  59 mins 44 secs

audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording

Matt and Sam talk about teaching people how to master

Episode 113: Tubes or No Tubes

March 9th, 2022  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 4 mins

audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording

Matt and Sam talk tube gear vs solid state

Episode 112: What The Record Needs vs What The Client Wants

February 23rd, 2022  |  Season 5  |  58 mins 14 secs

audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording

Matt and Sam dive into the ever-heated debate of what the record needs vs what the client wants.

Episode 111: Why You Can't Make It Loud

February 9th, 2022  |  Season 5  |  54 mins 28 secs

audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording

Matt and Sam chat about why some people struggle to make their music loud.

Episode 110: Your "Crack" is Showing

January 26th, 2022  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 1 min

audio, audio engineer, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording

Matt and Sam revisit the Episode 1 topic of "Torrented Software"

Episode 109: Atomic Habits & "The Aggregation of Marginal Gains"

January 12th, 2022  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 2 mins

audio, audio engineer, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording

Matt and Sam talk about the concept of "The Aggregation of Marginal Gains" - How to leverage and improve the 1%.

Episode 108: Brittany Garber & Brittany Moses - Maintaining A Work/Life Balance

December 29th, 2021  |  Season 4  |  1 hr 14 mins

audio, audio engineer, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording

Matt and Sam interview their better-halves on the topic of work/life balance.

Episode 107: Prepare Your Business for 2022

December 15th, 2021  |  Season 4  |  1 hr 14 mins

audio, audio engineer, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording

Matt and Sam talk about how they are planning and preparing their studios for 2022.

Episode 106: Gear Episode 2021

December 1st, 2021  |  Season 4  |  1 hr 2 mins

audio, audio engineer, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording

Here it is! Matt and Sam talk about the gear they used in 2021.

Episode 105: Gear Buying Theory

November 17th, 2021  |  Season 4  |  57 mins 54 secs

audio, audio engineer, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording

Matt and Sam get into a little bit of theory behind buying gear.

Episode 104: Should A Mastering Engineer Have A Sound?

November 3rd, 2021  |  Season 4  |  58 mins 18 secs

audio, audio engineer, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording

Matt and Sam talk about if they think it is proper for a mastering engineer to have a tone/sound.

Episode 103: Mastering Converters

October 20th, 2021  |  Season 4  |  55 mins 46 secs

audio, audio engineer, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording

Matt and Sam talk about converters and the important roles they play in mastering.

Episode 102: Why I'm Lowering My Rate

October 6th, 2021  |  Season 4  |  53 mins 34 secs

audio, audio engineer, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording

Matt and Sam talk about how to know if you're rate is too high.

Matt's Formula (TE+Va)M=R

T - Time invested into the field
E - Experience in the field
Va - How much value you add to your client
M - What the market is willing to pay (values between 0 and 2)
R - Rate to charge

Episode 101: Using Mid/Side While Mastering

September 22nd, 2021  |  Season 4  |  48 mins 33 secs

audio, audio engineer, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording

Matt and Sam talk about how they use Mid/Side processing while mastering.

Episode 100: Episode 100

September 8th, 2021  |  Season 4  |  1 hr 7 mins

audio, audio engineer, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording

Matt and Sam review the past 100 episodes and talk about their plans for the next 100.

Episode 99: How To Listen Like A Mastering Engineer

August 25th, 2021  |  Season 4  |  53 mins 8 secs

audio, audio engineer, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording

Matt and Sam dive into how they listen to music and approach client mixes.