The Attack & Release Show
A podcast on the music industry from the eyes of two mastering engineers. Warning: There will be dad jokes
About the show
Sam Moses of Moses Mastering (Nashville, TN) and Matthew Garber of For The Record Mastering (Charleston, SC) set out to demystify the music industry and mastering.
Warning: There will be dad jokes.
Podcast Merch: http://www.theattackandreleaseshow.com/
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Episodes
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Episode 159: Gear Episode 2023
November 29th, 2023 | Season 6 | 1 hr 5 mins
audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording
Matt and Sam give a rundown of what they are using for plugins and hardware in 2023.
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Episode 158: Luck is Not a Business Strategy
November 15th, 2023 | Season 6 | 1 hr 5 mins
audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording
Matt and Sam talk about why you need a plan for 2024.
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Episode 157: Client Retention - How Leaky is Your Bucket?
November 1st, 2023 | Season 6 | 1 hr 8 mins
audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording
Matt and Sam talk about how to retain clients and how to analyze where you are losing clients.
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Episode 156: The Tone of Mastering
October 18th, 2023 | Season 6 | 58 mins 58 secs
audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording
Matt and Sam discuss whether the mastering process should impart a tone in the client's mixes or if it should be a transparent process.
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Episode 155: Fall Q&A 2023
October 4th, 2023 | Season 6 | 1 hr 4 mins
audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording
Matt and Sam answer listener-submitted questions.
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Episode 154: Don't Lose Everything - Data Management, Storage & Backup
September 20th, 2023 | Season 6 | 59 mins 46 secs
audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording
Matt and Sam talk about how they manage files, data storage, and backups.
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Episode 153: Bill Podolak - Izotope Ozone 11 Senior Product Manager
September 6th, 2023 | Season 6 | 1 hr 13 mins
audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording
Matt and Sam interview the highly skilled and knowledgeable Senior Product Manager for Izotope Ozone and dive into all the new features debuting in Ozone 11.
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Episode 152: Marketing 301 - How To Stay Ahead of Evolving Markets
August 23rd, 2023 | Season 6 | 58 mins 52 secs
audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording
Matt and Sam talk about how to stay ahead of the changing markets.
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Episode 151: How To Switch To A Mastering Career
August 9th, 2023 | Season 6 | 1 hr 7 mins
audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording
Matt and Sam talk about a listener-submitted topic of how to switch to a career in mastering.
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Episode 150: Genre Specific Mastering Techniques
July 26th, 2023 | Season 6 | 57 mins 39 secs
audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording
Matt and Sam talk about how their mastering varies based on the genre they are working on.
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Episode 149: Analog Do's & Don't's
July 12th, 2023 | Season 6 | 1 hr 28 secs
audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording
Matt and Sam talk about some of their "do's" and "do not's" when using analog gear.
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Episode 148: Marketing in 2023
June 28th, 2023 | Season 6 | 1 hr 6 mins
audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording
Matt and Sam talk about marketing in 2023
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Episode 147: How To Review Your Master
June 14th, 2023 | Season 6 | 56 mins 49 secs
audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording
Matt and Sam talk about how to review the song you mastered before sending it off to the client.
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Episode 146: The Best First Piece of Gear
May 31st, 2023 | Season 6 | 57 mins 14 secs
audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording
Matt and Sam discuss their 2023 opinions on how they would purchase their first piece of gear, today.
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Episode 145: Spring Q&A 2023
May 17th, 2023 | Season 6 | 57 mins
audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording
Matt and Sam answer listener questions.
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Episode 144: Is "Mastering Engineer" An Endangered Profession?
May 3rd, 2023 | Season 6 | 1 hr 40 secs
audio, audio engineer, audio mastering, audio production, mastering, mastering engineer, mixing, music producer, producing, recording
Is "Mastering Engineer" An Endangered Profession?