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Monday, November 3, 2008 AT 12:19 PM - Category: Video
Written by Red Bull Music Academy
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Video: John Dent Lecture Highlights
Yes, there is a difference. And it sounds mighty good.
Glance down the smaller print on some of your favorite record sleeves, and you’re likely to find John Dent’s name on there somewhere. In the business for a good few decades, his mastering credits include seminal albums by Bob Marley, Grace Jones, Motörhead, The Stranglers and a whole lot more. Just this year he’s worked on tracks for Santogold, PJ Harvey, Mara Carlyle, Nightmares On Wax and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry. John’s work is a mysterious process that few musicians truly understand. The mastering of a record is usually only noticed when it’s bad rather than brilliant (the highly entertaining discussions about the latest Metallica release are testament to this, just check any audio messageboard). John Dent is a man with an extraordinary and uncanny feel for all audio things and a contagious belief in the relevance of superior sound quality. Listening to compressed audio will never feel right again once you’ve had him show you what you’re missing out on.
Watch the full lecture session here.
BONUS: John Dent's first lecture session at the Melbourne Academy in 2006.
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Glance down the smaller print on some of your favorite record sleeves, and you’re likely to find John Dent’s name on there somewhere. In the business for a good few decades, his mastering credits include seminal albums by Bob Marley, Grace Jones, Motörhead, The Stranglers and a whole lot more. Just this year he’s worked on tracks for Santogold, PJ Harvey, Mara Carlyle, Nightmares On Wax and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry. John’s work is a mysterious process that few musicians truly understand. The mastering of a record is usually only noticed when it’s bad rather than brilliant (the highly entertaining discussions about the latest Metallica release are testament to this, just check any audio messageboard). John Dent is a man with an extraordinary and uncanny feel for all audio things and a contagious belief in the relevance of superior sound quality. Listening to compressed audio will never feel right again once you’ve had him show you what you’re missing out on.
Watch the full lecture session here.
BONUS: John Dent's first lecture session at the Melbourne Academy in 2006.
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