After several weeks of creating test clips and constructing and running batch files, I began looking for compression artifacts. I first searched for pre-echo. I began my examination with Dolby Digital ...

In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to the ...

Universal Audio Capitol Mastering Compressor: What is it? Universal Audio’s meticulous software emulations of classic gear have recently started going native, so more and more of them no longer ...