CD MASTERING
Astar’s large Manchester-based music and production studio provides the perfect comfortable listening environment for attended music and CD mastering sessions.
We passionately believe in the process of providing astonishing audio quality. Professional music mastering gives artists, producers and record labels alike confidence that their work is heard to a consistently high standard.
After days, weeks or months of recording, this is the final stage in a process driven towards absolutely perfect results. A finished product which sounds fantastic throughout, exactly as it should be heard.
It’s this enthusiasm and passion for audio quality that you’ll find at our Manchester music mastering studio.
WHAT IS MUSIC MASTERING?
Professional music mastering is an essential part of the recording process, and the final creative stage before manufacture.
In fact, many sound engineers mix their projects with mastering in mind. Few people are aware that virtually every major-release Audio CD is professionally mastered.
In its simplest form, mastering is basically the creation of a high-spec production master. This is the end-product, ensuring that your hard work and talent is heard in the best possible way, through every medium.
Music mastering is a subtle but dramatic creative process, demanding great empathy and skill from the engineer.
Each track is assessed on its own merits and mastered accordingly. But importantly, at the same time all tracks are brought together to work as a whole.
The mastering process creates an album with a consistent listening experience.
MUSIC MASTERING AT OUR MANCHESTER STUDIO
At Astar we have vast experience of providing post-production for a wide range of projects.
The sophisticated sound equipment we have available allows us to make adjustments to Level, EQ, dynamics, gaps and fades, noise-shaping any aspect of your project.
Adjustments which can be so subtle they are scarcely audible, but felt. Or alterations so radical they transform the sound almost beyond recognition.
OUR PROCESS
Our experienced sound engineers will assess your source and advise you on any possible improvements or enhancements. We’ll ensure that your project is the best it can possibly be.
We know the recording and sound process from every seat in the studio. Our editing and musical skills enable us to improve your audio to its best possible advantage. It’s what we love to do.
Whether it’s removing noises like vocal ‘plosives’ or clicks, radical editing like changing the structure of a track for radio play, or reworking a start or ending.
To discuss your music mastering project with our Manchester team, call 0161 280 0908, email [email protected], or complete our contact form.