Audio Mastering

Mastering is that last and final step you can take to finalize a project before it is replicated. Ask your representative how our mastering engineers can help take your project to a whole new level and make sure your music is ready for the commercial market.

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Mastering

C&C's CD Mastering Services

After hours of recording and mixing, even the major labels look to a fresh set of ears to bring their project to the next level before proceeding on to replication. This is because when recording in the studio, each song is recorded individually. They are completed one at a time, sometimes even at different studios and at different levels with varying EQs. A CD mastering engineer approaches a project with a new perspective and helps bring the consistency to an album that can often be lost during the recording and mixdown process. With use of EQ, gain, compression and a variety of other processes, the mastering engineer strives to achieve a consistent sound from track to track.

At C&C Music and Video that fresh set of ears are at your beck-and-call. Our engineers will use state-of-the-art digital and/or analog equipment to help bring out the best in your audio project. Most importantly, with decades of engineering experience and being musicians themselves, they understand how to maximize all types and styles of music. This can range anywhere from rock, pop and alternative to world, religious and classical, along with any other genre your project falls into the category of.

Be sure to tell your representative that you are interested in adding
affordable Audio Mastering to your project!

What Mastering Does

  • Helps makes your project sound more professional and commercial-ready
  • Unifies your album for a consistent sound from track-to-track.
  • Can adjust things like dynamics, punch, loudness, brightness, clarity and warmth.
  • Can help create more consistent track starts, fades and pauses between tracks.
  • Attempts to create an environment where an album will sound consistent when played on different types of stereo equipment.

What Mastering Doesn't Do

  • If your project is over-compressed, it will remain over-compressed. While compression in recording and mixing can be your friend, it can also be your worst enemy.
  • In the most extreme cases, clipping and noise issues may not be fixable.
  • While sometime individual instrument and vocal levels can be slightly adjusted, mastering does not provide individual track control. In other words, if your vocals or any other track are too loud in the mix, they may remain too loud even after mastering.
  • Bad recordings and bad mixes can only be fixed so much.
    While miracles can sometimes happen, they should not be expected.

Tips for Submitting Your Master

  • Tracks can be submitted on CD-R, DAT or Minidisc.
  • Tracks can be submitted in native format to media, or in .WAV or .AIFF file format.
  • Include a clear, concise, typed track listing for CD-Text entry. Include song titles and artist or band name for each track.
  • Be sure to include any notes and instructions you feel are necessary for the engineer to complete mastering on your audio project. For example, if you need fades adjusted, be sure to say so. If you want to reorder the sequence of songs, be sure to request it.
  • If there is a particular sound you are going for, include specific albums, songs or artists titles and names that the engineers can use as a reference.
  • Good communication is important to the Mastering process.

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