Recording Studio

Mastering is the final step in the professional audio process. This is your last opportunity to enhance your music before duplication. Our CD mastering services are necessary if your CD needs to be the most viable radio ready master available.

The mastering process should take less time than recording and mixing your music, that however, doesn't make mastering any less important. Every recording project has different goals and needs, so if you are considering if your project needs our mastering service - remember that all professional songs / albums are mastered!

Please contact Emerald City Recording Studio today to schedule your mastering session. Call: (813) 814-1062 or email: [email protected]

Our mastering service includes:

- Optimize / normalize volume levels

- Compression / limitation

- Equalization

- Spectral enhancement

- Add digital silence between songs

- Fade ins / fade outs

- Cross-fading

- Sequencing

- Create Red Book standard CD for duplication

Don't forget!

- Listen to your pre-mastered CDR before you send it to be mastered.

- Always keep a back-up copy for yourself.

- Make notes of any specific work you want done. (i.e. track fades, crossfades between songs, spacing, etc.)

- Label and include your contact information on your pre-mastered CDR disc.

Digital Editing Digital editing is performed with the recording industry standard 24-bit Pro Tools. More recording engineers demand Pro Tools for their audio production tasks than all other digital workstations combined. 24-bit resolution is particularly valuable on sessions that support extensive editing because working with higher bit rates/resolution not only helps to create the most accurate image of the original audio source, but also keeps the image clearer throughout the various stages of editing and processing.

Please keep in mind. Mastering can not fix problems associated with poorly recorded or mixed music. Don't make the mistake of thinking that all problems will get fixed during the mastering process. While mastering is an important step, please don't make the mistake of thinking it is a cure-all for problems you can fix during the recording or mixing process.