Hey!

I’m Tom S. Ray and I’ve been in the audio universe for almost two decades now (wow, that does make me sound old..but hey).

I’ve started with producing some instrumental music (mostly based on samples) and moved on to more synthesised stuff later (the hours I spent playing the first Moog VST..).

After some while I decided to learn about pro audio techniques, how to record, and how to mix so in 2007 I enrolled to Sound Engineering college in Edinburgh (Edinburgh College) where I did loads of projects, record crazy amount of bands (actually broke record for most studio hours outside the class time in one year- 342 hours – more than my whole class combine!)

Once I got to a pretty good level of mixing I realised I’m still missing on mastering. And this is where my real adventure started.

I started to dig really deep into mastering. Read all the books available out there (shout out to Bob Katz and Bobby Owsinski) and tried myself in mastering.

Fast forward 10 years and I’m the head mastering engineer at Audio Unity Group, hold a bachelor with an honours degree in music from Kingston University in London, lecture mastering to students in Edinburgh College and to my online students via my Total Audio Mastering Blueprint –  audio mastering course.

I really hope all the articles here will help you understand the audio and the processes a bit more and ultimately improve your sound!

Tom