This week in the Hyphenate podcast I sit down with Mastering Engineer Pete Lyman to talk about his incredible career mastering awesome records! @plyman@infrasonicsound
If your mastering engineer doesn't know what your goals are, the results won't be what you expected.
Pete Lyman details why including your references with your mixes is so important for a successful master: /podcastep285petelyman/
Pete Lyman is a GRAMMY-nominated mastering engineer, and owner of Infrasonic. Pete’s digital and vinyl mastering career spans thousands of titles over the last two decades. He has mastered Grammy-award winning and Grammy-nominated albums for Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile, Halsey, Sturgill Simpson, John Prine, Weezer, Panic! At the Disco and more.
In 2005 Lyman opened Infrasonic West, a custom-built mastering facility in Echo Park, CA. Pete, and his 1956 Neumann AM32B Cutting Lathe, moved to Nashville, TN in 2018 and opened Infrasonic East. In 2022, Infrasonic West found its new home in Highland Park, CA. Since then, Pete has curated the Infrasonic roster to include engineers spanning everything from mixing to mastering to vinyl cutting to immersive and so much more.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
- Why not committing to your mix is doing more harm than good
- The biggest problem people make with their editing
- Using room correction tools/software
- Why the level of your mix doesn’t matter as much as you think it does
- Why stem-mastering is stupid and you should avoid it
- Passive vs. active listening
- Preserving the character of a mix in mastering
- Knowing when to do nothing as part of your job as a mixing and mastering engineer
- How to let go of your personal tastes when working on something that doesn’t connect with you
- Understanding the needs of various genres
Check out the episode here: /podcastep285petelyman/
BIG week over here at Infrasonic!
@zachlanebryan no. 1 album in the country on Billboard 200 for “With Heaven on Top”.
@ellalangleymusic no. 1 song on Apple Music (all genres) with “Choosin’ Texas”.
@brandicarlile@lucinda_williams@kashculpeppermusic@lukasnelsonofficial all taking spots on the top 5 Americana Singles chart.
@brandicarlile with the no. 1 Americana Album for “Returning To Myself”.
@chrisstapleton “Tennessee Whiskey” is certified double diamond by the RIAA.
We are honored to have been a part of these amazing projects.
All mastered by @plyman at Infrasonic Sound.
Shoutout to the man!
Here is a rare video of one of the greatest punk bands out of Los Angeles NEW COLLAPSE. Video shot Hazmat / ScrewBall.
Nothing about this band was normal, visually and sonically!! As people they were the most colorful artists I knew, and the music they made was the second to none!!
If there’s any strength I have in recording is minimal bands sound amazing at my studio. I approached them and was thrilled as honored to make their full length.
After they left my studio, it had been a few years and I never heard anything back on this record being released. As I inquired around town, I found out Sadly the band had broken up. I reached out to some of the band members I could find and inquired whatever happened to these recordings we did? no one knew?! I was able to piece together a few studios they had visited after my own ,This record was made on 24 track tape So those reels would be hard to lose lol So I tracked down all the old Studios they had gone and was so crazy as I knocked on the door to inquire about these tapes the owner of one of these Studio’s told me he literally about to throw them in the trash behind the building ?! He could not believe I was just inquiring about these actual tapes… He physically had moved to put in the dumpster behind the building. Fate had looked kindly upon us and I brought the tapes to my studio. Baked them and transferred because they were soon to be unplayable and ruined.
I mixed this and I’ve shared this with the artists of New Collapse individually.
Super proud of this LP! I hope someday the full record will come out. Here’s a glimpse into lightning captured in a bottle. New Collapse LP is available on their BandCamp Page.
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