OK, so you’ve got the band together, you’ve written that classic track, you’ve played it to your mates and they agree… your destined for the bright lights, Rolls Royce’s and swimming pools full of Dom Perignon. Great!!!

So what next?

We’ll after considering getting the train down to London and walking straight into EMI Records you realise your music just doesn’t have that professional edge. Before booking your ‘Super Saver Advance’ you want to make your music shine like a bag of freshly chiseled diamonds.
You play your music alongside ‘commercial’ releases and it sounds poor. Like a demo rattled together in someone’s bedroom. That’s because that’s exactly what it is.
How can that be? You paid attention during the recordings, squeezing every last drop of air that was available on each channel strip. You recorded everything in 24-bit and spent time getting the levels just right. But still it sounds distant and flat next to those famous brands.

Don’t worry, help is at hand.
Welcome to the Mastering Process.

If you are serious about your music productions and are in it for the long haul you will eventually end up at the gates of the Mastering Process. And I guarantee it will frustrate the crap out of you. Never will you find so much opinion, so many considerations, so many ways to tackle the problem and so many opportunities to ruin your lovely music with just one irrational dial turn.
I’m not going to even start to delve into this profound Science. With more variants than influenza even to brief the subject is difficult.
For the past 10 years I’ve been chasing that ‘Audio’ purity at the end of the Mastering Rainbow. Experience and hard graft is the only way that you really get an appreciation for Mastering. Persevere, you will get there in the end, well close enough to see the leprechaun and his bag of gold. Then all you need to do is reach out and touch it.

Your on your own on this one. But we’re here to help if you need us (at a price, but we are here!)
Just pop your soul in a Jiffy bag and label it ‘AAAARRGGGHH’.
We’ll understand.