About Us
We specialise in professional mixing and mastering services, bringing clarity, depth, and polish to your tracks.
We aren’t happy unless you are, which is why all of our services come with unlimited free revisions to ensure we hit the mark every single time.
We have more than a decade of experience and have delivered industry standard work for independent artists as they look to grow their fanbases, all the way to major record labels.
EXAMPLES
Below is an unmastered and mastered version of the same record.
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WHAT IS MASTERING?
Mastering is where the stereo mix from your DAW turned into the ‘final’ product that your audience will hear. The engineer enhances elements of your track to make it sound richer, wider and hold more depth.
DO I REALLY NEED IT?
Yes! Unmastered tracks can sound weak and will struggle to compete with professionally mastered records. You will have already noticed the difference between the tracks you’ve exported in comparison to what has already been released – that’s largely down to the mastering process.
HOW DOES MIXING AND MASTERING WORK?
Mixing and mastering are quite different, but absolutely key stages in making and releasing music.
In mixing, the engineer will typically balance the various sounds and instruments using a range of creative and technical tools to form a cohesive sounding song. The mixing engineer will focus on individual elements within the song to create a believable balance.
Mastering is strictly technical and the engineer will look at the space, focus, depth, width, frequency and dynamics in the track as a whole, to name but a few! A skilled mastering engineer will enhance the strengths of your track and minimise its weaknesses. By applying dynamic techniques, EQ adjustments, and spatial enhancements, they can transform an average mix into a vibrant, solid, and balanced final product. Naturally, the mastering engineer’s job is easier, and the final result is better, if the mix they receive is of high quality.
THE LOUDNESS WAR
Unfortunately, the world we live in is such that loudness matters. Whether you like it or not, commercial releases appear to be at the forefront of ‘competitive loudness’. You only have to listen to a piece of classical music recorded in a concert hall to hear the extensive range of dynamics. However, over the past 20 years, dynamic range has been compromised more and more to achieve louder masters.
Fortunately, skilled mastering engineers have developed ways to ensure perceived loudness remains but not to the detriment of the subtlety that you’ve worked so hard to achieve in your recording.