Sound Experience

Michael Romanowski is a Grammy nominated mastering engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is owner and chief mastering engineer at Coast Mastering and co-owner and founder of the analog tape label The Tape Project. Michael is currently a Trustee of the The Recording Academy San Francisco Chapter (NARAS), Chair of the National Presidents Council, former president of the SF Chapter and serves on the National Advisory Council to the Producers Engineers Wing.  Michael and Tim talk about the do's and dont's of Master Buss Compression, digital vs analog compression, compression in the mix stage vs the mastering stage and stereo linking.