Mastering is the final stage of the recording process and deals with finalizing the stereo mixdown of your song so that the proper levels are checked and corrected for release. Mastering is an important step in the music production process that is often overlooked by those making independent releases. My mastering service is designed to optimize your recording to give it that analog radio quality luster, all at an affordable price.

Things I will do as mastering engineer will be to clean up level spikes, muddy or over focused low end,smooth out the high end, proper low end to mid range balance, spectrum analysis, pop/click removal, equalization, compression (including multi-band compression), limiting, editing, and final arrangement of tracks. The mastering process is performed entirely in the 24-bit digital domain using my special technique.

I specialize in the mastering of hip hop, urban, reggae, rNb, house, techno, dj mixes & mixtapes. I also mixdown radio commercials.

I deliver your project to you as a high quality mp3 via email or .wav via download or postal mail (cd-r). CD-R avaialable on request.

-Wyndell Long
audio engineer

Mixdown is one of the most critical steps of a final professional sounding recording. A good mix will make the final mastering better. The Mixdown stage is where all the sounds are positioned, all separate tracks (music, vocals, drums, ect) are blended together, and the levels are adjusted. If you don't have a good mix then no amount of mastering can make the track sound good. Some services offered for mixdowns include:

* for that warm analog sound: tube harmonics,
compression, equalization & tape saturation
* Vocal Intonation Adjustment
* Vocal processing and thickening
* Vintage harmonic processing for vocals
* Added background vocal harmonies
* Timing adjustments as needed
* MIDI resampling when appropriate to improve sound quality
* Wide variety of Track insert effects like chorus, echo, etc...
* Convolution reverb treatments
* Track automation as needed for better final mix
* Track and bus equalization
* Noise reduction if needed
* Adding additional tracks if needed (remix)

The final result of a good mix is to have the track sounding very smooth, sound panned properly and properly EQ 'ed with the vocals sitting in the pocket easy to hear. A good mix will sound very good on it's own before mastering. For the best results have your audio engineer track out your song to individual named waves (vocal1.wav, synthpart.wav, ect), with wet (with effects) and dry (no effects) takes.