Mastering

While the CD Mastering process is quite often neglected by many recording studios throughout the world, Oszillation Studios offers mastering as an inclusive service when recording music with us. Studios that don't offer a mastering process often let their customers take home a lack lustre or inferior sounding production when compared with music from their favourite CD collection. It is true to say that every commercial music CD you buy has been mastered. So simply put, mastering is a "tidy up" process after the music has been recorded and mixed, and before it is produced onto CD. The stages of mastering to CD are:

• Compile the music together in the mastering machine

• Place all the tracks in order when listening from beginning to end

• Equalise the music to remove and add frequencies that are too strong or lacking

• Compress the tracks in the compilation so that they sound fatter, tighter and with more punch

• Add a small amount of reverb if necessary for a characteristic live sound

• Increase the volume of each track whilst removing unwanted spikes and sudden level increases

• Balance the level of each track with one another

• Create fade ins /outs, cross fades and pauses between each track - even hide a track at the end of your CD!

• Create track IDs so that you can access each track like you would on any commercial CD

• Add CD-Text if required

• Create a master CD and copies that can be duplicated or copied at home