Sound Design (Audio Mastering)

Mastering is the final stage of making a music recording, done after mixing. It produces the master copy from which the release is duplicated. You need mastering when you want your recording to sound its best and separate tracks to form a cohesive album.

What’s included

• Assembly – tracks are put together into an album in the order you want, with or without gaps between them.
• Noise removal.
• Final sound balancing – clarity, dynamics and evening out frequency differences between the album’s tracks.
• Release preparation – the recording is delivered in the format needed for duplication.

Analogue hardware and digital plug-ins

In most cases we recommend analogue mastering – compressors, limiters, equalisers and exciters are used as real hardware, not as software plug-ins. Our standout analogue unit is a valve master compressor. We don’t give up on digital plug-ins, though: we combine both approaches.

If you bring us a quality recording with a good arrangement and mix, mastering takes the result even further.

Order online

Send us your mixed stereo track as a WAV file. Requirements:

• 96 kHz, 48 kHz or 44.1 kHz;
• 24-bit;
• level between −6 dB and −3 dB;
• most importantly – no compression.

Price