Unless you've been living under a rock, you already know there are plenty of exciting companies out there trying to harness the power of AI in the music business. In this episode, I am thrilled to showcase the two founders of an Oslo, Norway company called Masterchannel. In short, this is an AI-powered audio mastering platform aimed at independent artists and music producers.

They are venture backed and are growing very quickly. The company was founded by Simon Hestermann (a mastering engineer) and Christian Ringstad Schultz (an indie artist/DJ), who both observed the same problem: artists struggling to release well-mastered records with confidence. Simon had built an autonomous mastering prototype out of his computer science background at Fraunhofer, and Christian — having tried and been disappointed by existing tools — saw the potential and left his PhD to co-found the company.

To hear the rest of the story, I invite you to tune in for what I promise will be an amazing discussion.These two guys have so much wisdom and inspiration to share. I promise it will be the best hour of your whole week. Check it out!

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