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Album mastering up to 15 tracks £260.00 /290
Eur !
Recent mastering clients include: One handed music, Rekordah records, Green Queen Music (Label), 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, Carica, Jazmine Ava, F-Jay, Tom Baird, Face the Unknown
(Metal), K'nekt (Sweden), Fantastikclick and SPORT G (France), Conor Barron (Half Light)
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
2) 2 Tracks mastered and delivered for £50.00/
56 EUR
3) 3 Tracks mastered and delivered for £70.00 / 78 EUR
4) 4 Tracks mastered and delivered for £85.00/ 95 EUR
5) 5 Tracks mastered and delivered for
£ 100.00/ 112 EUR
6) 6 Tracks mastered and delivered for £115.00/ 128 EUR
Pay via Paypal (See bottom of page) Album mastering up to 15 tracks £260.00 !! / 290 Eur !!
Please enquire for more than 15 tracks on an album.
Add £7.00 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 sonically
review the material 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 correct
a number of common problems related to the frequency balance in your tracks. As well as corrective processing Mastering will
include addition of sub codes (for automated royalty reporting etc).
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 or click on the "Send me your track" box via Soundcloud below. (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 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)
+ Custom built stands and neoprene isolation 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 : High
resolution DAC with LM4562 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 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 inc VOXENGO ELEPHANT V3 PSP Mastercomp Kjaerhus Audio GCO-1 compressor Voxengo Warmifier, Crunchessor plug in Focusrite Liquid Mix
compression / EQ Massive Passive EQ, PULTEC EQ, Smart Research C2 and API 2500, Chiswick Reach Tube, Fairchild
670 compressor emulations amongst others. A few secret tools that remain
unmentioned ! 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.
Section of
track 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 audio by clicking
on the SoundCloud icon at the bottom of this page.
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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SADiE Engineer - SADiE Training - Adobe Audition Training
- Freelance engineering - Mobile recording - Mastering - Restoration and transfers to CD-R - Audio post production for
video
Copyright 2008
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