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Is CD mastering different than for vinyl?

Is CD mastering different than for vinyl? The short answer is yes. A needle needs more room with the louder the program is an interesting point, something that we don’t need to worry about with mastering for a CD. Hard sibilance, loud ride cymbals, wide bass, a resonant frequency around 1kHz – these factors can all cause the needle to jump out of its groove. Avoiding that is true craft. It’s an art.

Audio Mastering Answers

Hey everyone; we hope your summer is off to a great start!  We’d like to mention something quickly…
Artists and producers generally ask us the same questions all the time, so we’ve included a FAQ page on our main studio website.  We just want to remind our readers that if you have any questions about audio mastering [...]

A Tragedy In Progress

Here at SoundOps we like to support our friends. Steve Taylor and the guys at ATIP have been our friends for almost 10 years, maybe more. And they have just produced some new music. Even if the style isnt what your used to, you should check it out. You may know them as Across Five Aprils; you [...]

CD Manufacturing & Replication: Who Has The Best Service?

Bands usually ask us where to send their final masters for manufacturing.  So this post is about that.  At SoundOps, we care about how your project turns out, and part of that is making sure you know where to get your CDs made after mastering.

I was talking to Mona at Disc Outlet over [...]

CD MASTERING & Online Distribution for your next recording project

He said there’d be a video, and here it is…
Will’s driving and talking about Audiolife.  You can tell he thinks it’s a great idea.  And we do too.  Check out the video, and take a look at audiolife.com for selling your music “and your stuff,” before you have to pay for it.

If your band is [...]

AUDIO MASTERING & DISTRIBUTION

Hey guys – Will here, from SoundOps.  As you might have guessed, we master audio – that’s actually all we do.  But, we are always keeping an eye out for cool things for our clients that will help them make it in the music business when they leave the mastering studio.  Distribution is a key [...]

Mastering Music = Band Marketing

Based on how musicians spend money, most bands care about their music in this order…

Gear  ( $$$$$ )
Playing Out  ( $$$$ )
Recording  ( $$$ )
Distribution  ( $$ )
Marketing  ( $ )

However, based on how musicians who make money with their music spend money, most successful bands have different priorities.  Well, the priorities themselves are the [...]

Mastering Makes It Louder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OXv45RByEY – Audio Mastering Video from SoundOps about post production for indie recording projects that want to keep that under-produced sound, but still be loud.

The Cost Of Recording…Per Listen

If you consider the cost of recording as a quantity per listen, or per listener, the price you pay in the studio(s) is almost irrelevant. For most of us, it only costs fractions of a penny to share our music with someone one time. And more often than not, that can lead to a new fan who will potentially buy our music, and our merch!

If It’s Indie, It’s On Evolvor

We all know evolvor.com has great news and other cool stuff for indie artists, but now with a guest post from Will @ SoundOps – its greatness is complete! The article is about distribution, and the new opportunity for the independent musicians out there. Check out evolvor and some other posts by Greg from Gen-Y Rockstars…