Cairns - The Eternal Sea
“The Eternal Sea” demonstrates how we mastered a very dense, black metal song, but still respected the awesome tracking and mixing done at No Studio by Joe Clayton.
“I value his feedback on my mixes, and he’s also very receptive to constructive amendments on his masters.”
- Chris Taylor - Noiseboy Studios
The Trouble with Mastering
Mastering is the final stage of the record making process, but, too often, it is a frustrating experience. You’ve worked long and hard writing, recording and mixing your tracks, only to send them to an anonymous mastering engineer who thinks he knows better than you how it should sound.
A bad master can ruin a mix. It’s not unknown for a non-specialist to think that the music just needs to be loud, even if that produces ugly pumping and unwanted distortion. Almost as bad is the mastering engineer who wants to “put his own stamp” on a track.
However, at Rock and Metal Mastering, your music is being cared for by someone who loves it as much as you do. Yes, we love it loud, but it also needs to sound great. You can also rest assured that your mastering engineer understands that his job is to make a good mix sound better, NOT to fundamentally change its balance or sonic qualities.
