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		<title>This blog has moved</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have moved!! Please visit us at our new home, blog.masteringworld.com Thanks for following<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=masteringworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5338140&amp;post=263&amp;subd=masteringworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on volume on Dynamic Range Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was delighted to find out that today is Dynamic Range Day (click here to see the website). It&#8217;s good to discover that a lot of people feel passionately about this subject. There&#8217;s a dude called Ian Shepherd, who&#8217;s a mastering engineer and music producer in the UK, and he&#8217;s organised Dynamic Range Day for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=masteringworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5338140&amp;post=231&amp;subd=masteringworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three wheels on my wagon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted from the blog of Colum Regan, talented singer-songwriter, old friend and all-round dude, whose new album I&#8217;ll be mastering next week. We were late. The rest of the band was already waiting at the Uplands Tavern. They had done their sound check, so Donal, (trusty sax-player and co-conspirator), Zoe, (friend and music fan) and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=masteringworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5338140&amp;post=211&amp;subd=masteringworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Josephine</title>
		<link>http://masteringworld.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/203/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Freak A]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always good when a client that I really rate starts getting the recognition that they deserve. So I would like to draw all music lovers&#8217; attentions to a singer called Josephine from Manchester. Her new single A Freak A was track of the day on Q online last week. I highly recommend that you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=masteringworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5338140&amp;post=203&amp;subd=masteringworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Eagerly Anticipated Album</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am officially excited about next Monday&#8217;s album session. It&#8217;s my most eagerly anticipated album of this year, the new offering from The Gentle Good aka Gareth Bonello. Gareth is a great songwriter, singing both in English and Welsh, and I really rate his first album, When You Slept I Went Out Walking. I&#8217;ve seen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=masteringworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5338140&amp;post=192&amp;subd=masteringworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hafod summer news</title>
		<link>http://masteringworld.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/hafod-summer-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s bulletin time, with news from the studio and some hot tips for gigs around South Wales. Summer&#8217;s a great time to be hanging out at Hafod. Despite the changeable weather it&#8217;s lush up here (using the word lush in its original sense!) with everything growing like crazy. The long evenings also mean I can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=masteringworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5338140&amp;post=170&amp;subd=masteringworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Squash and music</title>
		<link>http://masteringworld.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/squash-and-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A re-posted blog this week &#8211; parallels between playing squash and forging a career as a recording musician by my friend Ville. These are wise words, pay heed! And if you&#8217;re in London needing a recording, you could do much worse than to give him and his brother Mat a shout. Now read on&#8230; I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=masteringworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5338140&amp;post=162&amp;subd=masteringworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to prepare your mixes for mastering</title>
		<link>http://masteringworld.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/how-to-prepare-your-mixes-for-mastering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less philosophy and more practicality this week. How best to prepare your mixes for mastering? It&#8217;s the age-old question, so here Donal&#8217;s Definitive Description! I&#8217;ll start with the summary and go into detail below. - WAV or AIF sound files - Stereo interleaved - The same sampling frequency (kHz) as it was recorded - 24 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=masteringworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5338140&amp;post=148&amp;subd=masteringworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life, death and music</title>
		<link>http://masteringworld.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/life-death-and-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 13:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve lost two good friends recently, one to a long-term illness and one violently, at the hands of another. Both were taken from us far too soon. Naturally that made for quite an emotional rollercoaster and, especially as I&#8217;m fast approaching my 40th birthday, set me off reflecting and musing on life and my place [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=masteringworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5338140&amp;post=142&amp;subd=masteringworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hafod&#8217;s got a brand new website &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://masteringworld.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/hafods-got-a-brand-new-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 09:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and this blog will appear on the front page! I wonder if it counts as kind of a digital feedback loop or vicious circle, where this blog links to Hafod&#8217;s new website, which links back to this blog, which in turn links back to the website. Maybe if I look in there in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=masteringworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5338140&amp;post=134&amp;subd=masteringworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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