sumtozero.net, a blog by Miguel Pinheiro Marques

Some projects begin with a business plan.

If you've ever delivered a finished album to a CD pressing plant, you've probably handed over a "DDP" and never once looked inside it.

Really happy to finally talk about this one.

Soldering gets all the glory in cable building, because soldering looks like the skilled part: everyone obsesses over solder alloys, iron temperatures and shiny joints, while stripping wire looks like the thing you do absent-mindedly while planning the so…

Decoupling loudspeakers is one of those subjects that sounds optional right up until you understand what your furniture has been doing behind your back.

Metadata handling matters more in mastering than it sounds, which is unfortunate, because it sounds like accountancy.