Mastering

Almost there. You’ve avoided (maybe) a few nervous breakdown, ruined relationships, and lost/gained 35 lbs to finish this body of work… and now what…. Mastering?

– You bet !

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Mastering not only provides coherence, homogeneity, lustre, and shine to your mixes, it also ‘packages’ audio for optimal rendering (Web video, CD Album, Radio single, Vinyl, etc). A good mastering engineer enhances musical depth of field, width and loudness perception without signal degradation.

This is not a luxury, it’s a very vital part of the process! Skipping this step only hurts you, when  compared to a mastered professional product. Aim for success.

You will be given 2 reference CDs. If the ref CD was approved by you after a ‘car test’, any further tweaking shall incur a $50 charge if under an hour-ish.
Once final Master approved, we will either print you a Master, or deal directly with your pressing plant of choice (included in Album Mastering rates)

INCLUDED

    • CD-Text

 

    • MetaData

 

    • ISRC

 

    • Loudness Match (LUFS, or integrated)

 

    • Object Oriented Mastering

 

    • High Resolution 96Khz/24

 

    • Transparent Down Conversion

 

    • Alias Free

 

    • Trims/Edits

 

    • Artifact removal

 

  • Pressing Plant follow-up and uploads

RATES

    • Album (10-12 songs) = $720

 

    • Ep (4-6 songs) = $400

 

  • Per Song = $80

 

– Albums produced on location get a $100 discount; EP’s get a $50 rebate –

We pride ourselves on quality, and always go for the extra mile. Less songs means more time per song. Trust method by result.