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The following are the basic, most needed tasks that are required to give your mixes that major-label-sound prior to pressing your CD's

Clean up Heads and Tails:
In almost all cases, there will be noises at the beginning and end (heads and end-tails) of each song or track you record. Doors closing, voices, count off's, chairs squeaking, sticks clicking, amp noise, audio distortions, etc.., can make there way onto your Final Mix Down Master.

Digital Mastering allows you to eliminate these unwanted sounds in a matter of seconds and create smooth, tight beginnings and endings that might have otherwise taken hours in the Mix Down Phase of Recording.

Song Order or Sequencing:
You may have decided to change the order in which your tracks are laid out when you have finished recording. Re-arranging the song order can be performed in a matter of minutes with digital mastering.

Spacing and Cross Fading:
The amount of time between the end of a track and the beginning of the next can be adjusted with the click of a button. If you would like a track to Fade-In while the prior track is Fading Out, digital mastering makes quick work of this task.

Sweetening:
Expansion, Compression, Equalization, Noise Reduction and Normalizing. Almost all finished mixes can benefit from one or all of the above. Performing the tasks digitally is much faster and in most cases much higher quality than most Project Recording Studios can achieve.

Normalizing:
Normalizing is by far the most important step in creating a major-label sounding CD. Normalizing finds the loudest point in the recording and adjusts all of the information surrounding that peak to a maximum level around that peak. This process ensures three things: it makes sure that the left and right channel are of equal amplitudes, it keeps all the tracks at an equal and proportional volume to one another, and it makes sure that overall amplitude is as "hot" as it can be on the pressing master. If you have ever played a CD that you had to crank way up to get it to play at normal volume, it was because the master either had not been, or was improperly Normalized.

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Digital Mastering allows you to perform all the above functions in the "Digital Domain". Unlike analog, you can manipulate the source material without adding any noise, hiss, or unwanted distortion.

We find that at least 95% of the masters that come through our facilities could have benefited from the mastering process but the artist either did not know about Digital Mastering or failed to realize its importance. Make sure that your record sounds as good as possible. The competition is fierce and you need to sound and look as good, if not better, than other artists you are up against on the airwaves and the market place. Give your fans a quality product and they will be back for more.

We at WCFStudios are committed to producing the highest quality product possible from the materials you supply us with.

"We look forward to helping you succeed!"

 

 

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