Doug and Kirk welcome Sangwook &#8220;Sunny&#8221; Nam, two-time Grammy nominated mastering engineer. He explains what mastering and remastering are, and we learn a lot about the magic that mastering engineers perform.

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&#8220;All the processing I&#8217;m doing is done on the analog side.&#8221;
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Show notes:

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<li><a href="http://jacobswellmastering.com">Jacob&#8217;s Well Mastering</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/620154-Sangwook-Nam">Sunny Nam&#8217;s recordings on Discogs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themasteringlab.com/engineers/doug-sax/">Doug Sax</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://amzn.to/2bU8XpJ">The Doors on vinyl</a> </li>
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Sunny Nam&#8217;s mastering studio. 

Our next tracks:

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<li>Kirk: <a href="http://amzn.to/2bbkq7G">Blind Gary Davis: Harlem Street Singer</a> </li>
<li>Doug: <a href="http://amzn.to/2c0RSh8">Frank Zappa &#038; The Mothers: Roxy &#038; Elsewhere</a> </li>
</ul>

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♫ Episode #16 – Managing and Storing Digital Media Files

Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn discuss music and musicians, and how we listen to music, whether it be analog or digital, downloaded or streamed, audio, or video.