Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is Audio Mastering?
A: Audio Mastering is the final effort to make an audio track sound the best before replication. After recording and mixing in the Audio Mastering stage the Music Mastering engineer's job is to make the audio tracks sound more spacious, more defined, nicely balanced, and overall, louder and punchier than the stages before Mastering.

Q:What is the difference between single track Mastering and album/project Mastering?
A:While Mastering a single track the audio Mastering engineer only concentrates on the frequency balance and dynamics of one audio track. Mastering a whole album needs the balance between the songs as well. An album after mastering, sounds like a unified collection of songs that belong together in volume and tone.

Q: Why online Audio Mastering? What is the difference between Online Audio Mastering Services and other Music Mastering Studios?
A: Basically there is no difference in the Mastering process. If you need faster Mastering service, If you like your music to get Mastered in a studio far from where you live, If you don't need to attend the Mastering sessions, If you only need the wave files of your Masters (that makes the service even faster), All of your project can be transferred online, hence the name "Online Audio Mastering".

Q: How do I trust the Online Music Mastering service providers?I need to hear the Quality of their Mastering work.
A: Of course every Mastering studio has Samples of their work and credits that you can check before starting. The other convenient way to make sure, is to request a free Mastering sample. You send your song and get back a sample of the mastered song. This way you can rest assured knowing your songs are going to sound the way you like after Mastering.

Q: Analog or digital Mastering? Which one is better?
A: The analog equipment add warmth, punch and Character to the track and they have a lot more headroom than the digital gear. Whereas the digital equipment sound clean, noiseless and do not change the original character of the sound. The best sounding Masters come out of a correct sequence of digital and analog Mastering equipment. None can do the Mastering job perfectly without the help of the other.

Q: Why doesn't my Mastered song sound like the great sounding records out there?
A: A great sounding record sounds great because of great recording, great mixing, great production overall, and great Mastering. The Audio Mastering engineer can't fix every issue that could have been prevented in the previous stages. Even a bad arrangement can largely affect the Mastering process.

Q: I could feel a lot more depth before Mastering my song, why does everything sound up close after Audio Mastering?
A: This is the nature of the Mastering process, the compression and limiting that is used in Audio Mastering makes everything sound up close, there is no other way to make a track sound louder without distortion.