We are pleased to annouce our new online mixing and mastering service - if you have recorded a track elsewhere, perhaps at home, but it could do with a little extra then all you need to do is take these simple steps:
Step 1: Complete the mixing and mastering form (*see below)
Step 2: You upload your files to our secure FTP server
Step 3: We will then mix and master your work
Step 4: We will then upload your files for your feedback
Step 5: We will then make any changes that you require and re-send them
Step 6: The completed track will then be sent back to you!
*Email mastering@ruralstudios.co.uk for the mastering email form (this simply includes information that the engineer needs to complete the work to your satisfaction).
The cost will be between £25 and £60 per track. Due to the nature of the work it's very hard to guess what the exact cost will be before knowing what you actually want (although it won't be more than £60), within the form will be questions relating to the work you want done so that we can then give you a quote, if you are happy we can then go ahead!
It might be that you want some extra tingly reverb added, some delay to help spice it up, audio production/manipulation... Or you may just want the overall spread, brightness, balance and sound to be improved and in which case some simple summing of audio can be done.
We use TL Audio and SSL audio products for the mixing and mastering work (Analogue, Valve and Digital), so you can be sure that the highest standard can be achieved. As well as other outboard and "in-box" technology.
Summing audio is basically just another term used for mixing. When we master your track the very last thing we do will be to send the audio through an analogue valve, this will give your music added warmth and brightness. Nowadays a lot of mixing is done digitally ("in the box") and summing audio through an analogue system creates "drive" which will boost the overall bandwidth, and therfore the brightness of your track.