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Inside MASTERING: Part I

Audio Mastering Resource: musicmastering.org

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

About The MASTERING Blog

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 [...]

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!

The More You Know About MASTERING, The Better…

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.

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.

Is Your Music Ready To Sell?

Will from SoundOps talks about the change in distribution from physical to digital (CDs 2 Downloads) and shares a Google secret that has a major implication for indie recording artists in particular who want to get noticed Online…

Recording Techniques - Eddie Karmer

…includes a video of Eddie Karmer talking about “the decision making process” and how it has changed as recording tools have changed over the years. Really good information for guys who are doing their own recording before sending their tracks off to be mastered.

Techniques For Home Recording

www.nextlevelguitar.com - home recording techniques video
Duration: 7:56
Hey guys - just ran across this video and wanted you to see it. It’s stuff that most of you may already know, but we all started somewhere
Our buddy here with nextlevelguitar.com hits some highlights about mics, cables, software, hardware, etc. If you are doing [...]