AES Show 2024 NY

Women's Audio Mission presents a panel discussion with award-winning mastering engineers and vinyl cutters who will talk about the intricacies of the vinyl format and the strategies used in mastering modern music to vinyl including how to address factors such as sibilance, managing low frequency stereo information, sequencing strategies, program length and volume, etc.

Moderator: Terri Winston

Panelists:

Kim Rosen - Kim Rosen is a GRAMMY- nominated mastering engineer who works out of her own “Knack Mastering” located in Ringwood, NJ, USA. Recordings Kim has mastered have garnered twenty-six Grammy nominations with five winning across multiple categories including Bonnie Raitt’s Song of the Year. She has mastered projects for Wynonna Judd, Johnny Cash, Aimee Mann, The Milk Carton Kids, Allison Russell, Superdrag, and Flogging Molly.

Margaret Luthar - Margaret Luthar is a Grammy-nominated Mastering Engineer who has worked at Chicago Mastering Service (where she learned to cut vinyl) and at Welcome to 1979 in Nashville. Currently a Broadcast Recording Technician at NPR and a freelance mastering engineer based in Los Angeles. She has mastered thousands of projects including The Lumineers, Tinashe, Spiritualized, Soccer Mommy and has significant experience in audio restoration, from her work at the Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound.

Piper Payne - Piper Payne is a Mastering Engineer based in Nashville, TN. Piper has mastered a wide variety of music including nationally renowned artists such as Janis Ian (Best Folk Album Grammy Nomination 2023), Dolly Parton, Third Eye Blind, LeAnn Rimes, The Go-Go’s, Madame Gandhi, and many more. After moving her mastering studio to Nashville from the San Francisco Bay Area, she ventured into vinyl manufacturing, opening Physical Music Products.

Moderated by Terri Winston, Executive Director of Women's Audio Mission. Women's Audio Mission (WAM) is dedicated to closing the chronic gender gap in the music, recording and technology industries. Less than 5% of the people creating and shaping the sounds that make up the soundtrack of our lives are women and gender-expansive people. WAM is “changing the face of sound” by providing training, mentoring and career advancement that inspires the next generation of women and gender-expansive music producers, recording engineers and audio technologists and radically changes the narrative in these industries.