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2013 is finally here, and it sounds better already!
Start your new year off the right way with a resolution to spend less money and sound more awesome
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Thanksgiving is a time to eat, and enjoy family, and football… you know the drill.
For all of us at SoundOps it’s also a time to remember the stuff we’re grateful for…
The Internet. Friends. Turkey. Hoodies. Naps. Watching sports instead of playing them. Pets. Motorcycles. And music that [...]

We were recently asked this question by one of our customers. “I see how you enhance/amplify the audio, but what about a song that has eq’s that are too high or clipping/popping, etc. basically recorded amateurly; can your audio engineers take a full song that was recorded poorly and clean it up and make it sound more professional?” Our Co owner Will Duke answers

Meet our newest studio coach. Steve Taylor has been in the music industry for fifteen years and is here to help you with your mixes.

You’ve worked hard composing and recording tracks without settling for anything less than perfection. But should you go a step further and also do your own mastering on your studio computer? While the temptation is great to do so, think twice before diving into this project. Improper audio mastering can truly degrade the overall quality of your music. Thus, it is always best to seek out professional level companies to complete this last critical step for you.

You never know when it’ll hit you — when the key to that bridge or an idea for an overdub — will suddenly just be there. And you have to get it down, right now.That’s why there’s unlimited mastering, our flat-rate 24/7 service for artists, engineers, producers — anybody trying to keep track of all that audio coming out their ears.

A lot of people, when they hear the words “audio mastering” immediately imagine a scene from a movie. To people who’ve actually done it this is an annoying image. Recording is messy. A lot of musicians that are making music at home, who aren’t the pop singer in an oak-paneled studio, believe that there’s some sort of mutual exclusivity between “professionally mastered” music and “professionally recorded” music, that they can’t have music professionally mastered that was recorded at home or in a garage. Either that or they think themselves really “punk” or “DIY” or something of that nature and decline to use it because it’s incoherent with their personal musical aesthetic.

Maybe you can make money as a musician after all. Yup. The Recording Industry Association of America is saying sales rose by $7 billion last year.

Guys like Young miss the crisp, full range of a needle on vinyl — and the damage, the way he sees it, is coming from the inferior sound of MP3s. That’s why he’s working on a new audio format of his own to find something that’ll sound closer to vinyl, Rolling Stone reports.

Instead of sending it to CD and then having the AAC files ripped from that, mastering engineers can now use Apple’s tools to create custom AAC files from the high-resolution master. Some people think that mastering for a digital format is silly, but it’s downright stupid to ignore iTunes