What is Mastering?
A Mastering Engineer is one skilled in the practice of taking audio (typically musical content) that has been previously mixed in either the analog or digital domain as mono, stereo, or multichannel formats and preparing it for use in distribution, whether by physical media such as a CD, vinyl record, or as some method of streaming audio.
Mastering is something we love doing. The industry typically gives most of the credit for a great sounding record to the mix engineer, but since we began mastering we feel a lot of that credit can also go to the mastering engineer. If you listen to a track pre and post mastering you will immediately notice that the post mastered track sounds more like a professional record.
We use Apple’s WaveBurner to burn Red Book standards audio CDs.
The tools we use to create digital masters are:
- Apple's Logic Pro
- Apple's WaveBurner (Part of the full Logic installation)
- Universal Audio (Manley Massive Passive EQ, Fairhild 670, Precision De-Esser)
- Izotope Ozone
- IK Multimedia's T-Racks Deluxe Mastering Suite
- Event Audio SP 6 monitors with a KRK Sub.