Previous work from us
What does mastering do?
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Mastering is the final stage of music production. It adds the finishing gloss and sheen that we’re all used to hearing on commercial recordings. When the buffering finishes, press play, then switch between each version to hear the difference. It’s most obvious when the saxophone comes in.
In the above version, the sax player was simply recording himself practicing along to a vinyl record. We took the audio, processed it in a fashion that seperated out the sax from the original track, which allowed us to remix it despite not having the seperate original recordings. Then we removed some of the heavy breath noise, and using compression and reverb, we sat the saxophone “in” the track as if it was there in the same space as the rest of the instruments, in such a way that you can now hear the orchestra, piano etc. clearly without the sax overpowering anything.
This was quite a subtle job, but we have some great tools and techniques at our disposal which can really help bring out the best in a recording. Even when it’s a recording done at home, by an amateur, simply for the purpose of listening back to their practice.
