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What is Mastering? High Resolution Digital Mastering Editing & Compilation Restoration & Cleaning PQ Editing ISRC & Product Encoding Analogue/Digital Archiving Digital Audio Frequency Spectrum Analysis What is Mastering? Mastering is the process of turning your studio's finished stereo mix into a glass master ready production master by putting that final professional polish to your mix, and bringing out your projects fullest potential up to a commercial standard, using very high quality specialist equipment, providing you with a final production CD ready for you to replicate, therefore enabling your recording to compete with other commercially produced CD's. The advantages of getting your project mastered at Norwick Mastering is more than just a fresh set of impartial ears, although this is certainly one advantage. I have heard many studio engineers tell me that by the time they have finished recording and mixing a project, they can no longer hear it objectively, and often something that they have overlooked has been brought to their attention and corrected by the mastering engineer, luckily before the project has been turned into thousands of replicated CD's. It's therefore very reassuring for a studio engineer or client to know that their project is being rigorously examined by an impartial mastering engineer before it goes to production. The best studio engineers still get all of their work mastered. If you chose not to get your recording mastered, you are sadly missing out on one of the most important processes in the completion of your project that you will have worked so hard for. Back to Top High Resolution Digital Mastering Audio is digitally processed and edited at a sampling rate sympathetic to the audio up to 96 KHz with a resolution of 24bit depth word length to insure high quality audio processing. Once all audio processing is completed i.e. EQ & level correction, compression, limiting, level maximising etc, the final audio is then truncated down to 44.1KHz 16 bit depth (to comply with Red Book Industry Standards) with either a wide band or narrow band dither applied, along with a choice of various ninth-order noise shaping, depending on the type and purpose of the audio being processed. A Norwick Mastering Test CD along with all PQ info is then sent to you to listen & check fully to your satisfaction. You must then confirm your approval in writing i.e. fax, e-mail etc to enable the release of your glass master ready Production CD. All other usual audio formats can be supplied. Back to Top Editing & Compilation All audio editing can be digitally provided including audio cutting & splicing, track starts & ends cleaning, fading in's & outs, waveform editing, azimuth alignment correction etc. If you have a compilation of tracks recorded from different sources or at different times etc, these can be made to work together as an album by carefully correcting level & frequency response continuity along with other digital audio enhancement techniques. Back to Top Restoration & Cleaning Old vinyl, tape or damaged recordings can be restored using the award winning Waves Restoration Bundle software with x click, x crackle, x hum & x noise producing amazing results, leaving the original audio intact and clean. Back to Top PQ Editing All index points, offsets, ISRC codes, Product codes, CD Text info etc. Back to Top ISRC & Product Encoding International Standard Recording Code comprising of 12 digits can be edited into the CD sub code. EAN.UCC Global Authority assigned product bar code comprising of either 12 or 13 digits which is edited into the sub code of the CD. Back to Top Analogue/Digital Archiving Transfer your analogue ¼" reels onto digital format before they are lost forever, analogue tape degrades with storage. Reels are baked in an oven to dry out oxide and prevent it from covering the playback head. The audio signal is correctly calibrated and transferred to a digital format ready for future use. Back to Top Digital Audio Frequency Spectrum Analysis Norwick Mastering boasts AQAID's Computer Digital Audio Frequency Spectrum Analysis Suite. The AQAID computer audio analysis suite is by far one of the best available in the industry. The AQAID system gives an extremely accurate analysis of an audio's frequency response spectrum, azimuth alignment, speed error left & right audio channel alignment and wave amplitude as well as comparing different audio samples against each other. This very specialist equipment gives Norwick Mastering the ability to check your audio beyond any mastering engineer's ear and ensure your recording is in perfect audio condition, free from any audio problems and unusual frequency response peaks etc. Back to Top |
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