Dear friends! Our job is hi-end quality of Your personal ideas. We use top-notch professional studio-equipment for mixing, EQualizing, compressing, limiting and final processing. We have deep and huge experience at studio and we can help You to make outstanding master-tape step by step.

MASTERING:

Final mastering of a soundtrack is being done in order to refine the music before recording it to disc, or playing it from stage or on the radio. In each of these cases, the track will sound differently, so mastering aims to preparing the track for playing in different conditions using a special mastering technique in each case.

By mastering, density and fullness of sound appropriate to a particular music style, is provided to a well mixed track. Mastering emphasizes brightest features of the track, normalizes the volume level of the whole track, and gives density to the sound.

Professional mastering, provided by IntroSpect. Porta Tracks, gives world-class sound quality to Your music.

If You need:

* To equalize sounding of music parts, recorded in different time or on different recording equipment
* To make music meet the requirements of a certain music style;
* To add fullness of sound to Your music;
* To prepare music for being performed on the radio, TV, from the stage, to release on a CD, vinyl or digital releases;
* A skilled team of professionals at KML, will help You.

Reasons why You should get Your music mastered at KML:

* Fresh onlooking;
* Our skills of estimating general impression from listening,
professional sound-engineers with many years experience of composing and editing music;
* Modern and vintage digital / analogue equipment;
* Unique mastering technique elaborated in KML;
* More than 20 years of experience.

MASTERING STAGES:

Digital mastering consists of several stages. Many people think that if one wants good sound it is enough to pass initial files through finalizer or limiter and to more or less normalize the RMS level. But in fact, it's not true.

If You need Your ideas to have really top-quality sound, mastering involves complicated and labor-intensive process from mixing-error correction up to preparing the disc for replication. Professional mastering is processed in a specially equipped studio with the use of high-quality controlling and monitoring equipment.

Hereunder is the succession of mastering stages used in KML.

MixMaster > DC-Offset Removal > Normalization > Denoising > StereoCorrection > Spectral Pre-correction > Lowcut Filtering > M/S-Encoding > Parametric EQing > Artistic EQing > Dynamic EQing > Top-End Limiting > Reverberation > Transient Modulation > Multiband Expansion > Multiband Compression > M/S-Decoding > Loudness Maximizing > Brickwall Limiting > Fade In/Out > Pause Determination > Pq-Editing > Dithering > 16bit Final Master

Probably, not all of these stages would be applied to a certain track; all depends on the initial data as each track is treated in an individual way.

PRICES AND DISCOUNTS:

* Individual song (1 track) - 25€
* Mastering EP/LP album or compilation (2-14 tracks) - 20€ per track
* Double CD (album) or mastering more than 15 tracks - 15€ per track
* Mastering records (mix) of more than 50 minutes - 15€ every 10 minutes playing time

Ways of payment: PayPal, QIWI, Bank transfer, Western Union. 
Detailed information concerning payment will be sent to your e-mail in response to order placement.

A system of disounts is available. Special offers for regular clients 

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS TO FILES TO BE MASTERED:

 

 

 

Dear clients,

In order to achieve best results, please, make sure the following requirements are followed, before sending us files for mastering:

* Bit resolution:: 32 bit floating point if possible. 24 bit is also possible. 16 bit is extremely undesirable, but sometimes acceptable;
* Sample frequency: 44.1 kHz for CD Redbook, 48 kHz or 96 kHz;
* File formats: .wav, .aiff;
* Dithering: not required;
* Fades: if possible, please do not do fade in/out;
* Compression and limiting: minor peak limiting is acceptable, but, please, no finalizers! Average volume level should not exceed - 15 dB RMS;
* Tracklist: please, provide us with correct track numbering, by filling in the table which You will have received from our manager. Track name should also contain track number, e.g. “07.my mega track.wav”;
* You should also give information for CD-text, according to this model: Album or collection title/Author/Track name/.

You would simplify our work by providing us with a reference track “how it should sound”.

Please, do not forget to give us Your comments and desires.

 

 

 

 

 

 

GEAR:

Computers:

* Mac
* PC

DAW & editors:

* Logic Pro
* Sony SoundForge
* Felt Tip Sound Studio
* Samplitude Pro

Audio Interfaces:

* Universal Audio Apollo UAD 2 QUAD

DSP Hardware:

* Universal Audio UAD;
* TC Electronic Powercore 6000 including MD4 mastering plugin;
* SSL Duende

Analog Equipment

* Thermionic Culture Vulture Master Plus;
* BAE 10DC;
* Kush Audio UBK Fatso Wave;
* Al. So Dynax 2;
* DBX 160SL;
* Aphex 104 Aural Exciter;
* Aphex 250 Aural Exciter Type III
* Crane Song STC8;
* Slate Pro Dragon
* TC Finalizer 96k

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Control:

* Meyer Sound HD-1;
* Focal Solo 6BE;
* ADAM S2A;
* Sennheiser HD 8000;
* Beyerdynamic DT 880 Pro;
* Koss Porta Pro;
* TC Electronics Level Pilot

Audio Meters:

* TT Loudness Mater;
* Blue Cat's DP Meter Pro / FreqAnalyst / StereoScope Pro;
* Roger Nichols Digital InspectorXL;
* PG-AM Pro

Our various clients: Electric Power Pole Records (Australia), Blue Tunes Recordings (Germany), Section Records (Great Britain), Iboga Records (Denmark)

Yours sincerely,
Roeth & Grey