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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 Studio Checklist:

7 steps 2 a better master
We wanted to provide a simple checklist for you guys and girls out there who are getting ready to send your songs to SoundOps (or any other mastering studio) for professional mastering.  And for those of you who’ve been doing doing your own recording, there are some easy steps you [...]

Mixing Drums For Mastering

Because I’ve been playing drums even longer than I’ve been mastering, I’m really picky about the drum sound on my own recordings, and I want to share with you how you can mix your drum tracks with mastering in mind.  If you’re in the studio right now, or if you do your own recording, this [...]

Online Audio Mastering: The Studio Gateway from SoundOps

Audio mastering has almost always been delegated to a 3rd party studio or engineer.  But, in recent years, it’s become more and more common for bands to send their music off (by mail or over the Internet) for mastering instead of actually going to the studio.  There are advantages to this type of post production, [...]

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 [...]

Independent Mastering (for indie bands)

Video post from Will @ SoundOps about 3rd-Party Mastering, and the disadvantages of letting your recording engineer (or the guy working on your mix) also master your tracks. Recording, Mixing, and Mastering require different gear, different skills, and – believe it or not – different ears.

Recording, Mixing…AND Mastering?

Will Duke from SoundOps shares a new secret about Mastering that your recording studio won’t tell you… stuff every band should know about CD mastering before they ever record any tracks.

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!

Multiply Your Time In The Studio

SoundOps introduces Mastering Secret #36 from their Mastering Secrets series. Will talks about the relationship between production and post production and addresses the question, “which is more important, mixing or mastering?”

multiMASTERING?

Will from SoundOps talks about where the idea of multiMASTERING first started…as musicians in the same band, he and John were disappointed with the lack of input during post production and started to talk about developing a way to improve the mastering studio model.