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Get your music
mastered by an engineer who has recorded the following artists :
Lemar
(HIT40UK), Craig David and Kano (HIT40UK), The Rumblestrips (HIT40UK), The Coral (HIT40UK), The Hoosiers (HIT40UK), Chick
Corea (BBC Radio 3 Jazz on 3), Errors (British Council Selecta) Avishai Cohen (BBC Radio 3 Jazz on 3), Incognito (BBC
Radio 2 Soul Solutions),June Tabor (BBC Radio 2), Still Remains, (BBC Radio 1 Rock Show), Terry Callier (BBC R1 Gilles Peterson
WorldWide), Amp Fiddler, Billy Cobham , Wolfgang Muthspiel ,Luisito Quintero ,Raul Midon, Bela Fleck, Lamb (British
Council), John Hollenbeck , Roachford , Jimi Tenor (BBC R1 WW/BC), Ride in 2001 Lamb, Turin Brakes, Tim Garland, Reid
Anderson, Martha Tilsdon (single release), The Pippettes, Keith Tippett, Steve Spacek, Soweto Kinch / Jason Yarde, June
Tabor,Anthony Hamilton, Farmyard Animals Trio, Jade Fox, Cass Fox, Martha Redbone, Goapele, Lucky Soul, Billy Cobham, Metronomy,
Kate Stables, Yungun and Fingers, Amp Fiddler, Get Cape. Wear Cape.Fly, Raul Midon (Guitar session), Incognito, Kate
Nash, The Rumblestrips, Half Cousin, Holymoonmusicorchestra, Lau, Battle, John Hollenbeck, Theo Bleckmann, Jamie Scott, Flipron,
Bosco D’olivera, Terry Callier, Eugene Mcguiness, MUM (Icelandic band), Ola Obunlade, Luisito Quintero, Roberto Quintero,
David Coulter (pogues producer), Freerunner, Rahsaan Patterson, Nancy Elizabeth,Marva King (Prince BV) Nate James, Kevin Michael,
Buen Chico,The Heavy, The Oscillation, The Winterkids, Kids in Glass Houses,The Duke Spirit, Eric Roberson, MC Skepta, Thomas
Williams and the Boat and many others.
Album mastering up to 15 tracks £210.00 /253
Eur approx !
Recent mastering clients include: One handed music, Astro:dynamics (Label), Green Queen Music (Label), PhilBee/Undisclosed
Audio, Bullion, Paul White, Fulgeance, Dub Master Gaudi (Weirdub), Imaginary band, 4ngelrecordings, Enuff Love records,
Anorexic spiders, System Request, Noisyzine compilation CD, Steve Winchester, Tranquil, Lace, Acer Maple, Jazmine Ava,
F-Jay, Tom Baird, Face the Unknown (Metal), K'nekt (Sweden), Fantastikclick and SPORT G (France), Conor Barron (Half Light),
Voodoom (Denmark), Sondinas (Denmark), Blast! Films (UK), Duncan Alex, Donald Carver, and many others.
See side bar for world class musician experience, click "freelance sound engineer"
Recent
client testimonials, Imaginary Band : "This is superb, I just want to say right now, can you do my next album too? You've
really brought the best out in every song."
4ngel Recordings : "Thanks to Barry our tracks are
sounding great, I will be using his mastering services from now on as the quality and communication is amazing"
Jazmine Ava : "Thank you so much for your professionalism and for such a great sound"
Tom
Baird : The tracks are sounding great, perfectly rounded and polished, you have good ears, thanks for lending them to
my music"
Complete satisfaction guarantee.
The quality Vs cost are
incomparable elsewhere.
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Pricing:
The following rates
apply to tracks up to 8 mins long. (Eur approx and subject to exchange rate changes)
1) 1 Track mastered and
delivered (electronically) £25.00 / 28 EUR approx
2) 2 Tracks mastered and
delivered for £50.00/ 56 EUR approx
3) 3 Tracks mastered and delivered for £70.00 / 78 EUR approx
4) 4 Tracks mastered and delivered for £85.00/
95 EUR approx
5) 5 Tracks mastered and delivered for £ 100.00/ 112 EUR approx
6)
6 Tracks mastered and delivered for £115.00/ 128 EUR approx
Pay via Paypal (See bottom of page)
Album mastering up to 15 tracks £210.00 !! / 247 Eur approx !!
Please
enquire for more than 15 tracks on an album.
Add
£15.00 to the above for 2 x RED BOOK encoded CDR and jewel case add £5.60 for delivery of Master CD-R by SPECIAL DELIVERY.
Before choosing your mastering engineer I suggest :
1)Comparing what speakers and
equipment is being used (and see it in a picture)
2)Verifying what professional audio experience your M.E. has.
3)Verify a photograph of the treated room where your audio is going to mastered.
Mastering information :
Mastering is the final step before manufacturing your CD/Vinyl or distribution of your audio online. Having a fresh
set of highly experienced ears review the material in a sonically accurate environment and bring it together as a product
is of great value, whether these are songs for CD release or destined as a demo or upload. Mastering will ensure
maximum compatibility with a wide range of playback systems and optimize the frequency balance in your tracks. As well
as corrective processing mastering will include addition of sub codes (for automated royalty reporting etc). and encoding into MP3 formats using the best encoders.
I offer a mastering preview option which is my way of showing confidence that I can make a great master of your
music, send over the track via Yousendit / Sendspace.
(This is subject to my time and availability, I will simply do it as soon as I can)
I
have very experienced ears gained from 10 years of professional audio engineering, 5 years semi pro engineering
and music composing with numerous commercial releases. (I am no wet behind the ears out of audio college engineer, I have
literally 1,000's of hours studio experience, see side bar under Freelance Engineer ) In essence you are paying for this hearing acuity, correctly
treated room and my labour, the equipment is incidental and has been chosen with care.
My mastering prices are highly competitive and I will put my skills and equipment to work, to produce a quality
end result.
I am confident my masters can compete with any expensive mastering
studios. How?, look at the decor in my room, money has gone into full acoustic treatment and equipment.
It is important
to note that I use SADiE Series 5 the high end application used by mastering professionals globally.
Equipment
and room :
PMC IB1 (High res monitoring)
Extensive acoustically treated room ( 7 floor to
ceiling bass traps and extensive mid/hf treatment and acoustic ceiling cloud)
Dynaudio Acoustics BM6P monitoring
(excellent imaging and driver integration) DAC : Custom high resolution DAC with High Current opamps in the output stage.
Analog hardware :
Class A analog compression
Valve/Tube and
optical compression with Telefunken Valves
(Telefunken Valves are rare and reknowned for there exceptional audio qualities)
Custom
built speaker stands and neoprene isolation pads OFC copper cabling throughout. (12AWG OFC speaker cables)
QED Audiophile speaker A/B switch
NAD
C350 Power Amplifier for clean sonic delivery
Passive volume controller for transparency
SADiE V5 PQ workstation
with VST plug in option
SADiE V4 24/96 (designed for mastering)
Numerous
high quality EQ's for correction and enhancement. 4 x mastering limiters
Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro headphones (for QC) SSL X-ISM (Inter sample peak metering)
Plextor CD-R / DVD-R drives (as recommended
by SADiE)
PlexTools Professional error check software
Apogee UV22HR and MBIT+ dithering algorhythms
Audio
restoration tools (Izotope RX)
Nuendo 4 (certain tools in this app are gems for mastering)
Taiyo Uden CD-R (Best
quality CD-R media)
Onbody inkjet printing and DVD case as standard for Red Book CD clients.
Audio can be
delivered via the internet or by post on a Red Book CD-R, .wav / .aiff files on CD-R/DVD-R or DAT tape or if need be MP3 format.(Stereo
Interleaved files only please)
Please call for further info on an attended session.
Payment by Paypal instant payment or
by personal cheque made payable to Barry Gardner. Paypal E-cheque (for personal and paypal e-cheque, masters are not released
until payment cleared.)
Files / CD-R (data or Red Book) / DVD-R delivery advice :
The ideal delivery
would be 24 bit mixes (stereo interleaved only please) that are without limiting, multiband compression or loudness maximizing
plug ins applied on the master output of your mixes. This allows headroom for mastering processing to be applied and allow
the processing to have maximum effect. An ideal digital peak level would be highest peaks to approx -4dBFS on your DAW output
metering. Any sample rate up to 192kHz can be handled. However of course life is not always "ideal" and you may
send what you have.
The procedure :
I would like to know your expectations for the mastering process
and if you have identified any specific problems as then the process can be tailored to suit these requirements. Your input
will be of great value.
Listening is the absolutely no. 1 priority when it comes to mastering, if I do not give
ample time to listening it is difficult to proceed. This critical time is figured into the rates above.
Then,
as is deemed necessary choosing what not to do and then applying mastering processes such as, level matching, manual fader
riding, equalization, characterful compression, limiting, multiband compression, loudness maximizing if desired, dithering,
relevant vinyl press processing if applicable. ISP metering check included. Sub code insertion, RED book CD-R creation
using SADiE industry standard software and Plextor master recorder. C1 / C2 error rate check.
A section of track will be sent for approval as .wav file, masters released upon approval and
cleared payment. Pay by Paypal below. Complete satisfaction guaranteed.
Do not hesitate to contact me for further
information or a friendly chat regarding your project.
You can deliver files
of up to 100MB (megabytes) via the internet using www.yousendit.com if you sign up for the free trial that is currently on
offer. For 14 days files up to 2GB in size may be sent and from then onwards files up to 100MB's are free to send. Sendspace
is another upload site that allows larger files sizes to be sent.
Both sites have a wizard available to install for speedier
uploads.
or of course by mail. (Special Delivery recommended)
Contact
:
Barry 0(zero)781 0271371 or via the website form or by email to safeandsound123 at googlemail.com
Send me your track
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