We offer competitive rates bringing affordable mastering to the underground and independent music community as well as the choice between all digital “in the box” mastering and our full hybrid analog and digital system. For the budget conscious, our digital mastering setup provides fantastic results and because working entirely in the DAW can save us a lot of time during load-in, rendering, and revisions, it saves you money. But, if you’re not too concerned with the small additional cost, we’re equipped with some incredible pieces of custom analog gear for that extra harmonic warmth and richness that only real tubes and transformers can impart. We use customized gear from Manley, Dangerous Music, API, Foote Control Systems, Crane Song, Avalon, Empirical Labs, and more.
If you want the best sound possible from us, our full system is the way to go, but with either choice you’re going to get high quality masters because you’re getting access to an acoustically tuned room, a great set of ears, and 15 years of professional experience so you can be sure you music will sound its best.
To save you even further money, we do not charge for additional revisions to a project after the initial core mastering session. This allows even the pickiest of artists to get what they want without the fears that they’ll be exploding theirs or the labels mastering budget. Through good, clear communication, this revision stage allows for us to get on the same page if the first set of masters wasn’t exactly what you were hoping for.
PER SONG RATES:
$50.00 – Full System Mastering (Analog + Digital)
$40.00 – Digital (In the Box) Mastering
These rates include:
- Unlimited revisions without additional billing!*
- Downloadable versions of your masters in Wave format.
- If you prefer we do them, compressed formats in either Mp3 or AAC.
- Project archival at our studio and on cloud-based storage
*Note: Revised mixes that require new mastering settings are billed as a new song.
Red Book CD-R Master or DDP filesets:
If you plan on releasing your music on CD, you’ll need a properly sequenced, burned, and error-checked Red Book CD-R or DDP file set for the replication facility.
$100.00 – Includes 2 master discs and regular shipping.
Instrumentals & Radio Edits:
$15.00 – Per Song for each additional mix of an already digitally mastered version.
$20.00 – Per Song for each additional mix of an already full-system mastered version.
Stem Mastering:
$100.00 – Per Hour for Digital Stem Mastering.
$120.00 – Per Hour for Full System Stem Mastering.
(An average song takes 45 minutes) More info here.
Restoration:
$100.00 – Per Hour for Audio Restoration.
Reference Discs:
$10.00 – Per CD-R. These should only be used for personal listening.
