

The best advice is to do as little as possible and record to the highest quality medium as possible. We also have a second system based on BBC Ls3/5a speakers with Quad amplification. The vintage Tannoy main monitors are powered by a Hypex powered monitor amplifier. Our newly built studio is well soundproofed and properly acoustically treated to give the best possible listening environment. You may want to fade one track in as the previous track fades out or add separate sound effects between tracks. You can also widen or narrow the stereo image and add different levels of compression to different types of sound.

You can do standard processing like equalisation, compression, reverberation and delay effects. Once loaded into the computer the options are almost unlimited. The original mixes are transferred to our computer hard disc via a lossless digital link or via high quality analogue to digital convertors. Nowadays most mastering is computer based. On the other hand, the mastering studio is where a dull, lifeless track can be transformed into something far better. Mastering may simply involve 'topping and tailing' the start and end of each track, matching volumes and adding the correct subcodes for the master CD or creating a set of DDP master files. Mastering is often thought of as the first stage in the duplication process but it is equally true to call it the last stage in the creative process.

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