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SoundOps.com | Head Engineer Responds to FAQ by DIY artist

Hey gang; Will here.  Just got off the line with Bob Harvey who runs musicmastering.org.  If you haven’t seen his website, check it out.  It’s a young site, but it’s shaping up to be a real resource for artists and producers who want to learn more about the practical (applicable) world of audio mastering.

Whether you [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hey there.  Will Duke here, from SoundOps Mastering.  I just noticed something today about our blog.  In the Yahoo! search engine, we are currently in the #2 position for the search term mastering just underneath Wikipedia out of over 63 million pages that are considered by Yahoo! to be relevant for the search…
There are two [...]

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!

An informative post for indie artists by Will from SoundOps with a simple fill-in-the-blank test attached. Find out how to choose the right mastering studio regardless of what you already know (or don’t know) about audio mastering. It’s good to know a little, but he points out the most important things to look for, and they aren’t about the technical aspects of post-production.

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.