These days it’s common for the contemporary artist to fulfil the role of engineer, producer, arranger, tour manager, tea boy etc…

Often projects are recorded and mixed in the same room with the same monitoring system. Any flaws in the frequency response of the system/room can become exaggerated at every stage of the production process.

Mastering achieves several essential purposes;
*Proofing your mixes sonically – ensuring any peaks and troughs in your systems frequency response are smoothed out, along with any other sonic problems such as phase errors, pops, clicks and other noise removal, appropriate dithering etc.
*Second, we ensure the tracks are balanced and consistent with each other in the manner of chapters in a good book.
*Thirdly we ensure your master is – thanks to the “loudness war” – of a commercially acceptable loudness.
*Finally, an experienced pair of ears from a third party can point out things that may have been overlooked, both artistically and sonically.

We want your music to be as good as it can be when it reaches the ears of the public. …