Mastering - A fresh perspective and seasoned pair of ears combined with excellent gear to make the songs sound their absolute best. The why and the what - Over days and months of writing, recording, and mixing music, ears become honed onto to certain things that have been brought out within that process. As a result, it becomes difficult to hear the songs, or album as a whole piece. It is the mastering engineer who takes those multiple listening environments, ideas, and sounds, and ensures they sound great for all listeners. Combining a mixture of equalization, compression and dynamics, the engineer ensures warmer, louder, and richer songs, optimized for all listening environments. Gear - Essential Mastering Converters: pacific microsonics model two (x2) burl audio a/d burl audio d/a mytek 8x192 series ad/da Analog processing: elysia alpha compressor api 5500 eq Tape: atr 102 with either 1/4" or 1/2" heads atr 104 1" two track machine with custom tim de paravacini (ear) electronics Digital processing: weiss eq1 Workstation: sequoia running on a mac pro quad core lynx aes 16 pcie card tascam dvra1000 recorder Plug-ins/software: cube-tec mastering magix drumagog bfd guitar rig altiverb and many others Monitoring: barefoot mastering stack room setup by bob hodas Rate - All sessions: attended or unattended All digital master $500 Analog chain master $700 Analog chain to tape master $900 Singles 3-7 min $100 $135 per hour for any additonal changes. An album typically takes around 6 hours to complete. Upon completion of the work you will receive a reference master cd to check the spacing and overall integrity of the work, followed by an actual pre-master cd or ddp file. It is also possible to send the completed songs to you over the internet if you wish. The actual master: can include upc/isrc number, cd-text encoding, and can be in either redbook cd-r or ddp-image formats. Enhanced cds are also possible, as well as mp3 encoding. Clients - Weather Pending And how! Here Here The boy with an orange Hammer Inventions Hammer Inventions Forest Sun Songs for Laura 2 Davis Jones Winter midnight Deepfried Incense Dianne Patterson Hip the hip Weather Pending Singles Forest Sun Songs for Laura Rob Cross The rhythm of change Ben Edwards Obvious illusion Janie Oliver Lay down Hebron Live in santa cruz Bits and Pieces Bits and pieces Cynthia Feel it Toby Saliccio 50 cents Bob Von Elgg Old train Animal Number Five Drum machine Emrys Songs for her Burn Don't you know it's time The 68's Belligerator Sandman (film) Mastering engineer Mute (film) Mastering engineer Holding on to jah (film) Mastering engineer History - I have been working in mastering since I first started producing music in recording studios. In 2003 I recieved a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Electronic Music. Since 2006, I have been working with mastering engineers Paul Stubblebine, Michael Romanowski, and John Greenham. I am interested in making your music pristine. From being an artist, producer, and live sound engineer, to working within a record label I understand where you’re coming from and how important your project is to you.