Liquid Mixing & Mastering

Liquid Mixing & Mastering Audio mixing & mastering services for any audio, musical, podcast, or visual project. Stereo, Surroun
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Liquid Mastering was added as the mastering wing of Sprout City Studios (est. 1997) by Thaddeus Moore, to fulfill a growing need of high-quality finalization for the amazing amount of great music being created by interesting people around the world (like you). Thaddeus has 25 years experience in the studio and doing sound on the road; he’s worked with Hundreds of talented bands and musicians, incl

uding: Frank Black (of PIXIES), Keb’ Mo’, The Cherry Poppin Daddies, Herbie Hancock, Thomas Mapfumo, Steve Miller, Emmylou Harris, Sugarland, Pink Martini, Phutureprimitive and many many more. Every session he works on gets the same level of care and detail to make sure the artist’s vision is met.

02/01/2025

Excellent record by Luke Beling produced by Tyler FortierLoved working on it.
10/21/2024

Excellent record by Luke Beling produced by Tyler Fortier

Loved working on it.

04/22/2024

Learning how to use Bus and Auxiliary routing properly is one of the first steps in helping you make great mix decisions. The ability to meter per-group element in a mix alone is a powerhouse.

Here is a short video explaining a tiny bit about it, and a free logic mix template to learn from on my site.

https://liquidmastering.com/free_logic_template/

Ok. Glad to finally see it drop live because it has been amazing beta testing Ozone 11. Clarity module is fast at lettin...
09/06/2023

Ok. Glad to finally see it drop live because it has been amazing beta testing Ozone 11.

Clarity module is fast at letting me do things that would usually take a bit more time. The new delta function on all the modules(!!!), better UI, and the upward compressor on the maximizer is very well implemented.

Got a little feature on Grimm’s site for their new and incredible UC-1 Converter. It really is that good.
09/09/2022

Got a little feature on Grimm’s site for their new and incredible UC-1 Converter. It really is that good.

There's nothing like happy customers: “I didn’t think it could sound any better than the way I had my system going, but with the UC1 there is even more 3D space around every note, stage width, and just flat out magic to this setup now. The DA-AD chain is nearly invisible. I honestly haven’t heard any converter as clean and un-colored as the UC1.” https://www.grimmaudio.com/pro-products/pro-converters/pro-uc1/

Thaddeus Moore, Liquid Mixing & Mastering, Eugene, US, UC1 & LS1. Picture credit: Alex Weeks.

03/30/2022

I’m in love with the design and concept of this truly unique converter/monitor control, the Grimm UC1.
Grimm Audio

03/30/2022

This is the first EP I’m working on for by Bliss Foxx, an alt rock band from Eugene Oregon. Doing a classic stereo master on this track, Carried Away. Releasing this spring!

01/31/2022

Understanding the difference between level meters and loudness meters. Loudness isn’t measurable by normal “level” meters. The LUFS is a measurement of Perceptual Loudness, based off the Equal Loudness Contour of human hearing.

It’s been about year since teaching my last class series and I’m excited to get back into it. Reminder that my Fundament...
01/28/2022

It’s been about year since teaching my last class series and I’m excited to get back into it.

Reminder that my Fundamentals of Sound Engineering course starts February 6th! Swipe through for more details and check out my website to register.

01/27/2022

I got to mix this clubbable track before mastering it, and used Timeless3 by FabFilter in several unique ways to make the vocals stand out at spacial sections of the song. It’s a FANTASTIC Delay unit, allowing for recreation of classic units and things never before heard!

This is a great pop song by Moroccan star Saidmosker, arranged by producer Hamid Daoussi.

If you missed my intro to this series a few months ago, I’m doing an occasional feature of some of my favorite albums to...
01/26/2022

If you missed my intro to this series a few months ago, I’m doing an occasional feature of some of my favorite albums to help spread the love to musicians and engineers.

D'Angelo's "Voodoo" was an invisible taste making album that is still affecting the sonic landscape 22 years later. When I first heard this record, I had to stop everything, and sit down on the floor and listen on repeat to parse out everything that makes it feel so huge. It’s a masterpiece of mix engineering by Russell Elevado, and the performances are nothing short of ridiculous. If you haven’t heard it, please give it a listen.

01/24/2022

Tone Projects Kelvin: A plug-in with flexible dual-stage saturation with powerful push/pull equalization.

Watch to the end for a before and after comparison of the mix and my master.

Track is “Planetarium” by Heists.


01/21/2022
I’m upping my ADC game! So many albums I’ve heard over the years that have blown me away sonically and/or impacted me em...
01/18/2022

I’m upping my ADC game!

So many albums I’ve heard over the years that have blown me away sonically and/or impacted me emotionally, have been mastered through this converter. They impart a level of clarity and detail in the space of the mix, & allow going crazy loud without sounding squished! It’s almost like cheating. I don’t even have to think about it when I run a mix back into the Lavry from the outboard.

This series of converters does analog to digital conversions differently than just about any other box I’ve ever heard. It uses a ladder resistor scheme instead of the common delta sigma modulators that most ADC’s utilize.

There are just SO MANY records that have been mastered through these Lavry gold series converters that I’ve been super impressed with. You should hear what it does to yours.

01/10/2022

I’ve been working with Tyler Fortier for almost 20 years now and it’s always a lesson in minimalism for me. He has a definitive vision so I don’t want to take it too far away from that. As I’ve gotten better at mastering over the years, sometimes knowing when to get out of the way is the best thing you can do.

Track is Way Back to You by Tyler’s band Last Year’s Man.

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Here’s another section of my online classes where we go deep into all the Equalizer Filter types… this is a short snippet going over the most often used but least talked about - Pass Filters. These classes go into way more depth on type and use than I can share here, so check out the lynk in b1o for more info or to jump in! [audio engineering, sound engineer, recording engineer, mixing and mastering, record at home, musician] #audioengineer #musicproduction #audiophile #learnaudio #soundengineer

Gain structuring your recordings starts at the microphone preamp. Now that most people’s signal chains are just a single knob on a preamp, straight into the digital converter built into a usb interface, it’s become really important to set your gain properly from the start! If you only give yourself 3dB before clipping, chances are, at some point in your performance it’s going to crunch out! Even if you don’t clip the converters in doing so, it will clip in your mix as soon as you add any gain with EQ, or make up with a compressor, and you’ll have your mix faders way down to keep it balanced on the main outputs. I get a lot of files recorded at home that were clipped at the point of conversion, and had to be turned down to work with, and have that clipping crunch baked in. It’s an unfortunate and easily avoidable situation. With 24 bit encoding you can leave yourself huge headroom, and still be many times greater resolution than the old CD standard! I go over this in detail in my audio classes. Join on anytime. [recording studio, mixing and mastering, mastering engineer, mixing engineer, mastering studio] #soundengineer #audioengineer #mixingengineer #mixingstudio #musicproduction

When you are recording a singer-songwriter who will be playing an acoustic guitar and also singing live, one of the biggest problems that can get in the way of a great recording, is too much cross-bleed of the vocal in the guitar mic, and vice versa. Using the polar patterns of figure 8 mics to reject this unwanted bleed is literally a magic trick. In this video to keep it short, I don’t go into why I’m setting things up with four microphones. But this is just so I can show the difference in sound texture/quality between a ribbon microphone element, and a tube large diaphragm condenser. #soundengineer #musicproduction #audioengineer #recordingengineer #recordathome #

I have a large series of video classes available, one with nearly 30 hours of content. In the coming weeks, I’m going to be sharing short snippets from those classes that contains some useful information for everyone. This video is showing really quickly - the basics of how what we hear as pitch relates to sound frequencies we work with. [audio engineering, sound engineering, mixing and mastering, mixing engineer, recording studio] #soundengineer #musicproduction #audioengineer #mixingengineer #mixingstudio

Learning how to use Bus and Auxiliary routing properly is one of the first steps in helping you make great mix decisions. The ability to meter per-group element in a mix alone is a powerhouse. Here is a short video explaining a tiny bit about it, and a free logic mix template to learn from on my site. https://liquidmastering.com/free_logic_template/

I’m in love with the design and concept of this truly unique converter/monitor control, the Grimm UC1. Grimm Audio

This is the first EP I’m working on for by Bliss Foxx, an alt rock band from Eugene Oregon. Doing a classic stereo master on this track, Carried Away. Releasing this spring!

Understanding the difference between level meters and loudness meters. Loudness isn’t measurable by normal “level” meters. The LUFS is a measurement of Perceptual Loudness, based off the Equal Loudness Contour of human hearing. #liquidmastering

I got to mix this clubbable track before mastering it, and used Timeless3 by FabFilter in several unique ways to make the vocals stand out at spacial sections of the song. It’s a FANTASTIC Delay unit, allowing for recreation of classic units and things never before heard! This is a great pop song by Moroccan star Saidmosker, arranged by producer Hamid Daoussi.

Tone Projects Kelvin: A plug-in with flexible dual-stage saturation with powerful push/pull equalization. Watch to the end for a before and after comparison of the mix and my master. Track is “Planetarium” by Heists. @toneprojects #liquidmastering

Talking about my upcoming class series, Fundamentals of Sound Engineering. Starts February 6th, details and registration here: https://liquidmastering.com/classes/ #liquidmastering

I’ve been working with Tyler Fortier for almost 20 years now and it’s always a lesson in minimalism for me. He has a definitive vision so I don’t want to take it too far away from that. As I’ve gotten better at mastering over the years, sometimes knowing when to get out of the way is the best thing you can do. Track is Way Back to You by Tyler’s band Last Year’s Man.

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Liquid Mastering was founded in 2009, added as the mastering wing of Sprout City Studios (est. 1997) by Thaddeus Moore, to fulfill a growing need of high-quality finalization for the amazing amount of great music being created by interesting people around the world (like you).

Thaddeus is passionate about the emotion and sonic possibilities of music. He has over 22 years experience in the studio and live sound, he’s worked with hundreds of talented bands and musicians, including: Frank Black (of PIXIES), Keb’ Mo’, Thomas Mapfumo, Phutureprimitive, WARD, and many many more. Every session he works on gets the same level of care and detail to make sure the artist’s vision is met.