Scott Hull Interviewed for Stereo Society
Behind the board. Scott Hull was interviewed Monday evening, April 9, 2001, by Mike Thorne at Classic Sound, New York City, during a massive thunderstorm.
Mastering is a complete mystery to most people. How would you define it for the layperson?
There are several one-sentence answers that kind of work. One that comes to mind is that mastering is the last step in the creative process and the first of the manufacturing steps in the making of a compact disc. It's the last creative step because it brings together all of the creative intent and ideas that were thought about when the project first started. It's about going back to all of these original concepts and trying to get that image on the disc. Then it becomes the first of the manufacturing steps. Here we address the issues of quality, gain control, precision, and repeatability - all of which have to do with things outside of mastering but in turn relate to how we interface with the CD manufacturing plant.
Read the interview by Mike Thorn at:
http://www.stereosociety.com/body_shintmt.html
