UK Mastering guru Ian Shepherd from Production Advice presented a talk at a recent AES event focussed on “Mastering in the Streaming Era”. It starts with a general overview of what mastering is, but then goes into some more detail around considerations of mastering in the current era including loudness, normalisation and perceptual coding.
You can watch the 1 hour talk below. The first section might be of interest to people who want to understand what mastering is, while the latter half might be of interest more to people involved in the industry that want to check out current perspectives on mastering best practices.