| Welcome to Phantom City Studio Mastering Recording Studios in Orlando, Florida Mastering Fact: Many recording studios do NOT specialize in mastering, in effect they do NOT posses the proper mastering environment, mastering gear, or monitoring signal path, do NOT be fooled by studios that offer attractively low prices for mastering, most of these studios are inexperienced and do NOT have skilled certified mastering engineers. Mastering is a complex process that can make or break your songs. What is Mastering? Mastering is widely misunderstood and sometimes mistaken for mixing. So, what is mastering? It's the "radio quality" audio step that comes just before manufacturing a CD. Some people would even say it's a crucial step. Once you have finished recording and mixing your songs, the tracks are shaped, sculpted, scooped, equalized, compressed, and finessed into sonic splendor through the audio process known as mastering. Mastering is what gives depth, punch, clarity and volume to your tracks. Every major label release is mastered to prepare it for radio play and retail sale. The reason? A CD mastering engineer can unify your album with skillful use of EQ, gain, and compression to give it a consistent sound from track to track. This process also allows the engineer to pump up the volume of your overall album so it’s as hot as can be and sounds unbelievable. Mastering is the crucial, critical, and final creative step in the process of making an audio recording. When your work is in the hands of a mastering engineer, that is when all the ultimate sonic judgments are made, all necessary aural enhancements are applied, and the definitive content of your project becomes a coherent and sophisticated artistic creation. A mastering engineer can literally separate the hits from the rest of the songs in the music market. What Do You Get? In almost every Mastering Session, the following actions are performed:
How Long Does it Take? Although there is no limit to the time or money that can be spent on mastering, many people in the business state that a good rule of thumb would be an average in the neighborhood of one hour for each song. This assumes that the audio was well recorded and no additional processing requirements are specified. Additional time will be allocated depending on the condition of the original recording, a client's specifications and any unusual or custom needs. 24k Gold Audio Cd. For a limited time only! Mastering Rate includes a 24k GOLD Master Audio Cd. Our 24k Gold Cd's are AAA rated in reliability and compatibility, and Certified Swiss Quality! This media incorporates a 24k gold reflective layer that provides maximum resistance to degradation caused by environmental factors such as corrosion, a major cause of failure in standard media, making it the ideal solution for applications requiring long- term storage of sensitive data, video, music or images! These 24k Gold Cd's reflect just how valuable your long-term information really is. Click here to see the 24k Gold Cd. "Loud vs. Proud." Contrary to popular belief, mastering is only a little about making a hotter sound. While it's true that the gain, or volume level, is boosted during mastering, it may be that raw decibels are the least critical aspect of the process. What's important is the way mastering makes songs sound. Because in the end, mastering is less about "loud" and more about "proud." Mastering is the fine-tuning and final equalization of the music for broadcast quality status. It puts all the frequencies in the correct ranges so that the bass isn't too loud, the highs don't hurt and the levels are constant with other CDs on the market. Mastering is the final stage of preparing mixes for production and replication. It's the last step in the process of making a music release. Online Mastering: Phantom City Studio's Online Mastering service offers musicians and producers worldwide the opportunity to have their recordings mastered in one of the world’s most famous studios. Have your songs mastered over the internet with Phantom City Studio's top of the line mastering engineers. We have years of experience in the recording industry, including working on tracks for Sony, Emi, Virgin, American Idol, and many other productions. Our certified engineers compliment each individual artist with their own unique touch to match their style. Let our mastering engineers put the finishing touches on your album. We will make sure your songs have the finished professional sound needed to be sent to record labels and radio stations. The online audio mastering service gives you access to the same excellent mastering engineers and equipment available to those who attend mastering sessions here at Phantom City Studio. Our Online Mastering Service is now only $75 per song. Demo Mastering: Mastering demo's is becoming a standard practice in the hyper-competitive music market. It's easy to see why record label A&R departments are overwhelmed by demos from aspiring artists. Mastering of demos can be an important step in giving an artist an extra edge over the competition. What is the ideal source format for mastering, and in which format will I receive my mastered material? Acceptable formats for mastering are AIFF, WAV, and, MP3 files. MP3 is lossy compression process and thus, not ideal for mastering. If you want to supply us with MP3 files, please make sure that they are coded in at least 192 kbit/sec (stereo, not joint stereo). We recommend you send us your files as a WAV format in any sample rate and bit rate. Your song is good to master if you had no equalizer, compressor or limiter in the sum signal, because a little bit of headroom helps our work. You will receive a master as a 16 bit/44.1 khz WAV file, which is a common reproduction format to make an audio CD. Upon special request you will receive your files in other formats. There are several free programs to convert AIFF to WAV, e.g. Switch for Windows or SoX Wrap for Apple/Macintosh In Apple Logic Pro you can convert an aiff audio file under: Audio Window –Audio File– Convert to WAV Stereo For further information please send us an email to info@phantomcitystudio.com. We are happy to answer any questions. What is the Red Book standard? Do I need to use it? Why? Even in the age of digital downloads, the CD is still surprisingly popular. Some would say that you haven't 'arrived' until you have produced a CD, manufactured by injection molding, bearing a barcode, shrink-wrapped and in the shops. To have a CD manufactured from your music, you need a master in a suitable format. There are a variety of formats that CD pressing plants will accept, but the easiest one to work with in the recording studio is in fact... A Red Book Quality CD! Yes, the master for a CD is itself a Red Book Quality CD. There are however some important rules that we must play by... There are many round objects, shiny and 12 cm in diameter, that are not CD's. A CD-ROM is not a CD. Also, any disc that deviates from the official CD standard is not a CD and is therefore unsuitable as a master for manufacturing. And the standard to which a CD-Audio disc should conform is laid down in what is called the 'Red Book'. The Red Book dates back to the early 1980's when the CD format was first standardized. It specifies every feature a disc must possess to be able to call itself a CD-Audio disc. Initially, CD's could only be made by complex and expensive manufacturing processes. But in the 1990's it became possible to burn one's own CD-Audio discs. CD-Audio discs burned in a CD writer are not identical to manufactured CD's. But as long as they don't flout any of the Red Book standards, then they are indeed CD's. So if you would like to receive a CD that is suitable as a master for manufacturing, you must make sure that your CD is Red Book standard, otherwise you will produce a CD-Not-Quite, rather than the required CD-Audio disc. Thank you for choosing Phantom City Studio Recording Studios in Orlando, Florida |
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