Now more than ever, with the rise of the personal home studio, it is important to have your music listened to by a Mastering Engineer who has the experience, know-how and equipment to give your songs the professional edge needed to compete. In today’s music market place, song or CD mastering is more important than ever and it is critical to have a mastering job that makes your CD compete with other commercial releases. Don’t leave this critical step to an amateur! All professionally released CDs are mastered, yours should be, too!

There are three equally important phases that transform a musical concept from your imagination into a finished work of art ready for manufacture and distribution. Each requires unique skills and tools to ensure the best quality results and thereby, the success of the project. They are Recording, Mixing and Mastering.

Recording is the process of capturing musical performances. An experienced recording engineer knows how to match the right microphone, preamp and techniques to the instrument or voice. The results can be simply amazing!

Mixing is the blending of the many recorded tracks. This is often the most time consuming part. It encompasses editing, choosing and assigning affects and adjusting volumes track by track and often within each track. Mixing is a delicate balance of the many elements so that every part has its own space to live within the mix. A well mixed song is far more than just a sum of its parts.

CD mastering is the final step, the process that fine tunes a good mix into a great, radio ready song or CD. We first analyze the recording and clean up noise, any unwanted artifacts and apply fades. We then carefully and selectively apply compression and equalization, giving it the punch and desired intensity specific to its musical genre. And finally, when multiple songs are to be included in a collection, we master them all to fit together on a release.
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The bottom line is results! We will listen to your mix and analyze what is needed, setting a plan for where it needs to be. Our goal is to Master your music to the highest possible fidelity so that it stands out from the crowd and sounds the way you intended it to sound: Clean, Clear and Rich!

If you are doing a complete album with us, we take it one-step further and make sure that every song sounds consistent with the others. After the audio mastering of each song, we then listen as a whole to the album and make critical adjustments so that no song is louder or lower than the rest. Care is taken to assure a consistent sounding CD. We also will handle all of the editing, song fades, trimming and spacing between songs, as requested by you. The bottom line is CD mastering will make your CD ready for duplication, radio play or club spins. If you request a CD master, it will