Fotios Koulakos

Fotios Koulakos is a mastering engineer based in Canton, Ohio, U.S.A. He owns and runs 1st Call Mastering, a mastering studio. Fotios began as a self-taught musician and audiophile and has been pursuing the vision of music, audio, and electronics for most of his life. His musical education took him from playing, to composing, to recording and producing and led to the building of a studio in 1995 and the starting of 1st Call Mastering in 2006.

Posts by Fotios Koulakos

Hearing Effects: Dynamics, Part 2 – Even more dynamic…

Hearing Effects: Introduction

Welcome back to the ongoing series that began with Frequency Fundamentals. I trust and hope it has been as helpful for you as it was fun for me to write. Moving along, this is the start of a new series that will dovetail with the frequency series. Consider it the...
Harmonics And Distortion

Harmonics And Distortion

Missed the rest of the series? Click here to start at the beginning. Up to this point in the series we’ve focused on characterising each sound with a single frequency representing its pitch. In today’s article we’ll consider the other frequencies...