If you’ve ever wondered why commercial recordings sound louder, fuller or punchier than your own it could be because they’ve had the benefit of professional mastering.

Many people underestimate the difference good mastering can make to a project. Independent artists often overlook this important stage in production. Yet mastering can not only help your music stand up to comparison with commercially produced material, but also make for a better listening experience across a range of audio systems, ensuring a solid bass, sparkling top end and clear midrange.

In its simplest form, mastering is the process of preparing your music for CD manufacture or distribution online. The final mixes are arranged in order, their volumes relative to one another adjusted and the correct spaces placed between individual tracks. All of this is crucial to making sure that your project flows from track to track and avoids distracting jumps in level. However, mastering usually also involves processing the mixes using a combination of compression, EQ and limiting. Much like the use of compression and EQ at the mixing stage – to even out levels and get the right sonic balance – when mastering they help make your music louder, punchier and most importantly sound good on a range of audio systems. So whether you are listening at home, in the car, or your iPod, your music will sound as loud and full as commercially produced tracks.

Crucially mastering brings a fresh pair of ears to your project and plays an important role in quality control, ensuring that tracks match the technical requirements of their intended distribution format.

Because we ask you to pay per track instead of hour, there wont be any hidden costs. You know what you’re paying!