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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

There are fans of the group Metallica that publicly prefer the versions of a certain set of songs that appear in Guitar Hero opposed to the ones released on CD. Why? Better audio mastering. Certainly the quality of the original makes a huge difference in the quality of the audio mastering work, but excellence in mastering can make a world of difference for the listener.

As with any new technology, digital audio looked like it was going to solve every problem we had with audio recordings from getting rid of hissing that masked quieter sounds and distortion of louder sounds. And maybe it could have if the music industry had embraced it for those possibilities. Before it could show it’s range it was shut down by special interest. But nothing can keep a good idea down for long! Now that there is so much that can be done, you may need some help. That’s why where we come in!