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Web Site Reviewed: 
26 June 1998 

Audio Mastering Services

Digital Brothers offers digital audio mastering services which prepare your two-track recording for compact disc or cassette duplication. We have the latest, cleanest and most efficient methods of mastering for CD and cassette. We feature two digital mastering suites, both equipped with Sonic Solutions digital audio workstations. Mastering includes the optional use of the Lexicon Nuverb digital effects system and de-noising facilities. Also available is the t.c. electronic M5000 Digital Audio Mainframe. Over 2500 Compact Disc titles have been mastered at Digital Brothers. 

 In the mastering process, all signal manipulation is done in the digital domain, so there is no signal loss or tape degradation, as there would be with analog tape. Also, because our workstations have your audio signal on computer hard drives, the editing process can go very quickly. Best of all, our digital audio workstations allow our engineers to test all changes or modifications before they (or you) commit to them. Of course, if the sound is already just what you want, we will leave it alone and just transfer the material to CD-R without equalization. Because our work is all in the digital domain, the mastering process can be completely transparent. 

 

The Mastering Process

The basic steps in the mastering process are: 
  1. Your 2 track source (see our formats page for specifications) is loaded onto computer hard drive
  2. All tracks are sequenced (as needed) and indexed
  3. Inter-track spaces are cleaned up; time adjsutment, removal of clicks, pops, or other extraneous sounds
  4. Fades added, adjusted
  5. Equalization performed Roll-off the recording to two CD-Rs: one for you to take for proofing, the other as the source for CD or cassette replication

Equalization Capabilities

The mastering process gives you a last chance to enhance the sound quality of your project. We can: 
  • Convert digital sampling rates
  • Change fades
  • Perform digital equalization
  • Perform Crossfades
  • Change levels (digitally)
  • Piece together parts of different takes
  • Add digital reverb
  • Perform accurate and quickly modifiable edits
  • Remove hiss, clicks, pops
  • Repair distorted passages
  • Add compression, expansion, panning, pitch shift, gating, filtering, widening, deepening, etc. 
 
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