[Steve Gillson]

Hey All,

Steve here from Gem City Mastering, a small studio based in Dayton, Ohio.  I frequent all of the facebook groups, and I also run a Mastering Engineers Discord server.  If anyone is interested in joining, feel free to reach out.  Whereas forums are great for longer, more technical discussions, Discord is real-time chat, and also has video conferencing features similar to Zoom.  At some point, I’d like to host a monthly get together of MEs over there, perhaps with a “topic of the month.”

I primarily work with EDM, Synthwave, Pop, Dance, Hip-Hop and similar genres.  I began producing music in my parent’s basement in 1996 as a high school Junior, and I accepted my first paying mastering client in 2008.

Cheers!

[Bob Katz]

Welcome, Steve. I considered a Discord server, but a forum like this seems more civilized and doesn’t drift. Moderators can curate.  And the nested threading more controllable. And it’s accessed over the web.

But you’re right: live talk can be wonderful for its immediacy. We plan on running occasional Sessionwire seminars as supplements in the near future!

[Steve Gillson]

Hey Bob, Happy to be here!

Perhaps we could collaborate.  I’d be happy to host roundtable discussions over at my Discord, which could be recorded and posted to youtube for a wider audience, and we could promote the forum within those roundtables.

I’m thinking of like a casual, monthly “coffee chat” for say an hour… say at 1pm EST on Saturday or Sunday.  Pick a topic each month… compression, DA/AD, equalization, limiting, loudness, SRC, studio showcases, monitors, room acoustics measurement, mastering for streaming, just a topic a month… get a bunch of ME’s in a video chat to discuss and debate… package it, throw it up on youtube.

Discord is wonderful for off-the-cuff chat, forums are wonderful as a more persistent, long-form information resource.  It could be a nice cross-platform collab that would provide a huge amount of beneficial information to to the kids that are desperately trying to master their own music in their bedrooms, as well as up-and-coming, would-be mastering engineers in the post-local-studio-apprenticeship world.