The mastering process
My tasks in the premastering process:
- To understand the totality of your music
- Use my appreciation of your work to apply the technical approach and methods that suits it best
- Create a premaster to be sent to the press
The individual steps Involved:
- Discuss the project with the artist
- Check the data are complete and error-free
- Create a project
- Develop a feel for the character and sound of the music
- Establish a provisional track order
- Master the individual tracks: play out , mastering chain, record
- Put the mastered tracks together
- Edit the lead-ins, lead-outs and transitions
- Once again discuss the project with the artist / rework if necessary
- PQ-edit according to the Redbock standard, CD or audio DVD, complete with ISRC codes
- Create a DDP master / burn a CD-R
- Quality check
- Upload the DDP master via FTP or/and
- Handover / send off the CD-R master