Broadly speaking, mastering is to equalize and give more volume to a song or album to achieve the best possible sound, making it more intelligible and more pleasant in most music equipment. Moreover, mastering a disc seeks to obtain homogeneity between the different songs.

Due to lack of knowledge, experience or appropriate study material, the recording and mixing done at home or at the rehearsal hardly sound as good as it should. A proper mastering can achieve it without resorting to a professional recording studio, making your home recordings end up sounding much better than you could get on your own.

I'm sure many visitors of this site may be perfectly capable of making a mastering. But without the equipment, hardware, software, experience and knowledge of a professional, this task can cost a lot of time (and money). If you want to try to do it by yourself, in the blog of this web you will find articles and tips that might help you. Go visit the "Blog" section.

All audio material is susceptible of improvement by mastering. For example: songs, homemade recordings, rhythmic bases, professional recordings, remixes, etc.

I'm going to explain what happens when mastering mp3 or any other lossy compression format. But first, a bit of theory.

Lossy compression formats

The existence of lossy compression formats is justified for use in devices where it is important to take up little space regardless of sound quality, as when listening to music from a mobile phone in a noisy environment (on the train, on the street), or listen to music with poor quality systems such as laptop speakers.

The lack of storage space and the need to transmit information quickly led to what is called file compression in computing, consisting of the search and elimination of repetitive information on the one hand, and irrelevant on the other, to obtain a more compact file.

In order to reduce information in audio files, lossy compression is based on psychoacoustics: those parts of the audio that cannot be easily captured by our ears are identified, such as high frequencies or sounds that occur at the same time as others. These sounds are the ones that are then encoded at a lower quality than the rest.

This achieves compression rates of between 5% and 20% of the original file. Some lossy compression formats are: AAC, AC3, AMR, ATRAC, MP3, Musetrack, Real Audio, Vorbis, Wavepack, Windows Media Audio.

Lossless compression formats

Lossless compression, on the other hand, is based on removing repetitive information and using forecasting algorithms. The complexity of the information contained in sounds makes lossless compression very difficult, hence the low compression rate (50%-60%).

This type of compression can be used for professional applications because the original data can always be recovered as it was before it was compressed. For professional and audiophile applications, the highest quality raw material is required, and at least 48 KHz and 24 bits are used. This audio data is saved as wav (windows) or aiff (mac) files.

Mastering MP3

MP3 is a lossy compression format and is not the best format to work with, as it does not include all the original frequencies and sounds 100%. Depending on the rate and type of lossy compression, the result of mastering mp3 can be more or less acceptable. Whenever possible, make sure to submit your songs in a professional format so that your sound engineer can take the best possible material as a starting point.

If you want to know more about the quality of digital audio, read my article “QUALITY OF DIGITAL AUDIO IN COMPUTER MUSIC”

Of course. Thanks to internet you can send your music to a studio like Mix Master And which, after being mastered (or mixed or produced), it can be returned using internet again. The fact of not being present in the studio is not a problem, because you can check if you like the results and suggest corrections by email. Besides sending audio files over the Internet does not cause any loss of quality.

Bounce your song with no equalization or limiter/compressor in the mix track, and take care about any saturation. Don' t worry about the level: I will put it at an acceptable level. Format must be lossless 44100/48000 Hz 16/24 bits (WAV, AIFF, FLAC...). Do not send MP3 as they have very poor quality and can not be manipulated. Click here for more information.

The applied processes will make your music sound more crisp, spaced and loud. The end result will always depend on the quality of the original recording that you send, but I'll get to make the most of it. You can check it by yourself: try 1 minute for free in the TRIAL section of this website

Mixing service consists in sending me the individual tracks recorded by you (vocals, guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, etc ...) and I perform the mix of them, wich I will return you converted into a single file. Mastering service consists in I sending me a single file consisting of the bounce of the mix made by you and I will masterize it. You can visit the following links to know more details about how I do the mixing and mastering

With production service I can add instruments and arrangements to your recordings. These are some of the instruments I work with:

To know more visit this link: production

I work with 64-bit floating point software and plugins, the highest quality for audio processing.

You can hear some examples in the "PREVIOUS CLIENTS"section of this website

The songs can be send from the "sending files" page or using any large files sending web such as WeTransfer.com. The form to send your song is as simple as this:

Remember you can ask for a demostration before: just send me one of your songs from the TRIAL section and I'll give you back 1 minute mastered.

The delivery system used guarantees the integrity of files and keeps the original quality from them.

None whatsoever. At all times you retain all rights and I also guarantee total discretion in dealing with your music.

You can simplify the uploading process by attaching several files in one. You may copy the files inside a folder, right-click over the folder and seleck "Compress folder" (Mac) or "Send to compress folder" (Windows).

Rates of my audio mastering studio.

DDiscount of 20% for 8 songs or more. Remember you can ask for a demostration. Send me one of your songs from the TRIAL section and I'll give you back 1 minute mastered.

Some examples:

• How much does it cost to master a song?: 39 €
• How much does it cost to master a 5 tracks CD?: 5 x 39 €/song = 195 €
• How much does it cost to master a 10 tracks CD?: 10 x 39 €/song x 0,8 Discount = 312 €
• How much to mix a 7 tracks song?: 99 € (including mastering)
• How much to mix 12 songs formed by 10 tracks adding a piano track to one of them?:199 € x 12 x 0,8 Discount + 39 € (piano track) = 1949,4 €

For the first version of mastering or mixing a song, I can return it in one or two working days. From then it depends on how long the client late on listening to it and request any change and on the times this process is repeated. We may be talking about one to two weeks to master a disc and between 2 and 4 weeks to mix a disc.

You must count the number of songs on it. The price for mastering each song is 39€/song , but from 8 songs I apply a discount of 20%.

I accept payments by Paypal, Credit Card, Western Union or Bank Transfer. The payment can be made full before starting or fractioned into two halves, one before starting to work and the other once you have downloaded the finished work.

Currently I send the files resulting from my work by WeTransfer.com, which is a fast and free system of sending large files.

I will make many revisions as necessary at no additional cost till the result satisfies you. YOUR MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFIED..

If the answer for your doubt is not here, you can ask me at CONTACT and I will answer as soon as posible.