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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 [...]

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.

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.

“All in one” schools can be tempting, but when teetering on the question “should i learn to do all this stuff myself or pop for professional mastering?” You should be clear about your goals. If you decide you are serious, and aren’t sure where to turn contact us.

With more and more football players with dreams of a music career the NFL decided to open a music camp. The players visited a professional music studio at one point, getting some instruction on how to make records.

It’s an organic, come-as-you-are approach that’s defined the Foo Fighters’ sound, and no doubt other bands are now more likely to drift in that direction. We’re not sure every band can pull off the kind of magic the Foo Fighters can in a garage.Contact us if you want some help with your sound …or if you can’t afford to have all that awesome gear in your garage.

At SoundOps, we understand how hard you work to create your own unique sound, and we believe you should have a say in how the finished product turns out. That’s why we created multiMASTERING. With multiMASTERING you have more input, more access, more control, more interaction, and more options.

“Someone who is creatively more detached from the material can give you a more objective view and space for reflection — for example do you want the vocal to be very in the foreground or more submerged in the mix?” A mastering studio will have all the technology you need to give voice to your best music.

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.