For us mastering is an essential process to create the very best impact for your audio projects.
Not only to create the all important first impression of anyone hearing your music but also to compete with the sound quality of other professional audio products. Mastering at Sound Pressure Studios will ensure that your tracks are brought up to these standards.
Our experienced engineer Leopoldo Lopes will apply the latest state-of-the-art mastering techniques and processes to your tracks using the best high end software and hardware available.
You really should check out our most recent and past work to take a look at first hand of what we are capable of!
| TO ALL PORTUGUESE CLIENTS WE HAVE SPECIAL PAYMENT PLANS WHICH GO FROM 2 TO 5 PAY TIMES |
MASTERING RATES
- REMOTE / ONLINE MASTERING INCLUDED -
AFTER YOU ORDER THE MASTERING SERVICE YOU’LL BE ABLE TO UPLOAD ALL YOUR FILES
| 1/4 SONGS |
5/8 SONGS | 9/12 SONGS |
13 OR MORE |
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| €30PER SONG |
€25PER SONG | €20PER SONG | €15PER SONG | |||
| Unlimited Revisions Submitted at the same time |
Unlimited Revisions Submitted at the same time |
Unlimited Revisions Submitted at the same time |
Unlimited Revisions Submitted at the same time |
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HOW TO PROVIDE YOUR FILES
Whether your music features live instruments and performers or if it has been created totally in the digital domain, it’s more important than ever to have your tracks professionally mastered. Having the highly trained set of ears of an Sound Pressure Studios engineer analyze, and adjust your recordings is both easy and affordable.
In what format should you provide your racks?
Do not limit or over compress your tracks or push them to 0db, we require your recordings to be a maximum of -3db and no lower than -12db.
Please provide your audio at the original settings from your recording session or software DAW e.g. if you have recorded at 16 bit/ 44.1khz you should provide files at this setting.
We recommend you use the following settings for the best results:
- File Type: WAV / AIFF (never in MP3)
- Bit Rate: 16 / 24 Bit
- Sample Rate: 44.1 / 48 kHz / 96 Khz
If you are in any doubt of technical specifications please contact us!
WHAT IS AUDIOS MASTERING ALL ABOUT?
Audio Mastering is the final technical and creative process which takes place after recording and mixing. It’s where your tracks are given important finishing touches and improvements in overall sound quality including: EQ, Compression, Noise Reduction, Stereo Width, Balance & Phase Correction, Limiting and overall loudness as well as ensuring the consistency and clarity of multiple recordings or mixes bought together for a single or album.
Mastering can be the difference between your project just sounding like a demo and a ‘professional release record’. So if you want to sound like your peers, then you quite simply do need it. If you want to sound better than your peers, then you absolutely definitively need it!!
THE LOUDNESS WAR
Fortunately, an increasing number of these individuals are becoming more and more vocal about this issue and the very negative impact it is having on the simple pleasure of listening to music. Perhaps even more fortunately, the consumer (that would be the boss, by the way) is now beginning to take note and to complain. Though only in small numbers, complain they should.
All too frequently, what has been delivered for their listening pleasure, is effectively an unlistenable product. Audibly distorted music, released simply because it is louder than previously released audibly distorted, loud recordings. Music produced so poorly (with an emphasis on compression, limiting and loudness) that the result is less about music enjoyment and more about listening fatigue.
If you are not aware of ‘the loudness war’ or would like to find out more about it, the video below is a good starting point. Then follow up with an online search. There is plenty to pick from: demonstrations, articles and discussions, all emphasizing a common concern and the need to abandon what is essentially a detrimental approach to producing music.
