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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.

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.

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.

You’ve got mastering, which is the cooking, congealing, garnishing, and ultimate presentation of the meal. We strive to specialize in exactly how every single ingredient needs to be handled. Just like when you’re perfecting a recipe, the specifics are paramount. Too much salt and the dish is ruined.

Experts in the recording and mastering fields have been making better and better quality recordings. To hear the music on an MP3 or radio has been disheartening. Most Engineers agree its time for high-fidelity to make a comeback.

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.

At SoundOps, we love mastering dubstep! There is no denying it’s novelty to the general public, and for those of us who have enjoyed the genre for a while, it’s cool to see it grow. If you produce your own dubstep mixes, and want them to hit harder than the demo-sounding projects your friends have, let us master one of your tracks.