Creative Edge Music

I had the opportunity to hang out with Joe Goodwin tonight and pick his brain about mastering music.  Joe is the owner and mastering engineer at Bellwether Mastering , and he's mastered literally thousands of songs through the years. As you would expect, the equipment he is running your audio signal through is top of the line.  The one that blows my mind most is his Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor.  This is a five-figure mastering compressor and I am happy to say it was used in the mastering of one of my own recent releases.  He usually bypassess the optical compressor and does most of the work with a slow attack and fast release through the solid state compressor, after which he drives the output transformers hard to increase harmonic content.  Of course, this is only one part of his mastering process and I can't give up all his secrets.  But let's at least take a look at the unit itself... Here is the SHMC in action: The serial number ...