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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.

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.

“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.

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.

Unlimited Mastering has arrived!