In this video I had the chance to meet JC Panizza at Climax Mastering in Paris. Join us as we dive into JC's impressive journey from audio engineer to a mastering maestro. He shares some insights and highlights into his career, the evolution of his mastering techniques and the impressive rig of analogue gear he uses to define his signature sound. Whether you're a music enthusiast or an aspiring audio professional, this behindthescenes look at Climax Mastering offers valuable knowledge and inspiration. Don't miss out on this indepth conversation that unveils the art and science of mastering music.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:44 Meeting JC
01:14 The start of his career
01:53 How to learn being an engineer
02:10 Most valuable lesson
02:51 Not rejecting without comments
03:19 Mixing before mastering
03:58 The day when JC wokes up and strted to do mastering
05:14 Trial and error with loudness
05:42 Discovering more tools than plugins
06:13 Preference of a hybrid situation
07:27 The usage of plugins
08:10 Plugins are the same as the digital hardware
08:57 The null test
09:17 Buying the first pieces of hardware
09:55 Why the Cranesong STC8 and the Thermionic Culture Vulture as first boxes
10:40 Maximum 2 db in mastering
10:55 About his Lavry Savitr converter
11:29 Exploring other options
11:43 Building his Pulltec EQ's as a special edition
12:22 Choice of transformers
13:00 The routing of his chain
13:51 Culture Vulture
14:09 Rupert Neve Master Buss Processor
14:58 Those Pulltecs
15:37 The Knif Pure Mu
15:55 Opening a box build by Jionte Knif
16:19 Manley Massive Passive
17:01 Knif Soma
17:15 Fairman TMC Mastering Compressor
17:32 My experience with Fairman
18:10 Knif Soma
18:48 The usage of Mid/Side with the Soma EQ
19:53 Crane Song STC8
20:09 DB's and mastering
20:27 A previous episode withe Jeffrey at Dagoose Mastering
20:49 Compressing, gainstage and clipping converters
21:11 Empirical Labs Fatso
21:57 Starting a project always the same
22:34 The Legacy Audio Focus XD speaker system
23:20 Preparing files
23:49 Fixing things like MP3 files
24:26 Backup your files
25:01 Using the so called no mastering tools
25:23 Not enough voltage
25:43 The episode with Rene Zing and his 500 series desk
26:19 Serving a purpose
26:55 That Bricasti M7 story
27:46 About the room
28:39 getting some diffusion
29:19 Working on specific genres
29:58 Plans for the future
30:45 Doing things different in the past with the knowledge of today
31:39 Common mistakes
32:27 Plugins and hardware are both great tools
33:08 No right or wrong
33:41 A career highlight for the ages
34:46 Still in touch
35:03 Master my beat
36:08 Closing thoughts
36:40 Not all about the gear, but about the ear
37:26 DMG plugins
37:48 Just try and do stuff
38:05 Signing off