Any studio that offers music mastering to recommend?

[superfluid1]

can anyone recommend studios that does mixing and mastering in singapore?

I would like to know budget and timeline of such services.

eg. mastering of an EP vs mastering for an album.

sample work would be much appreciated.

 

[Freeflowclass]

Snakeweed. Can check out GSE, Astroninja, Zero Sequence.

 

[superfluid1]

thanks freeflowclass for your prompt reply.

do you have web links to the mentioned studios?

cheers.

 

[Freeflowclass]

MySpace.com - www.myspace.com/67868057

thats the studio.
the local bands that he has mastered/ mixed for ( im not sure which ) is :
The Great Spy Experiment.
Saw Loser.
Zero Sequence.
Astroninja.

 

[visa]

I'm pretty sure that there are no proper mastering studios in Singapore, and even studios like Snakeweed send their tracks overseas for mastering.

I might be wrong, though! Best to call up and check with them. =)

 

[superfluid1]

thanks visa for pointing this out.

wonder why there isnt any studio in singapore doing mastering. ..lack of facility perhaps?

 

[AgingYouth]

Actually there are...

Some engineers donch feel comfortable in mastering albums becuz this is not their area of expertise. Some studios offer such services like The Void @ MFG, Lion Studios (the live room looks insane from the photos!), Focal Pro Solutions, etc. There used to be a joint called The Audioplex in Tampines where quite a few Singapore big acts had recorded their albums.

Mastering is usually a combination of equipment and experience.

Check out Masterdisk where the Great Spy Experiment mastered their album at. The bloody console looks like it can be used to launch a few lunar missions. Then again, the experience of the mastering engineer plays a big part. When you eat, live and shit mastering, I think you should be, ideally, quite good.

Locally, mastering usually will set you back around $100 per hour. Some places charge $100 per track. There are stem-mastering and pre-mastering mixing as well.

Good luck. Have fun.

 

[superfluid1]

thanks agingyouth response. appreciate it.

i will check out the mentioned studios. mastering seems to be an expensive business.

 

[visa]

Particularly because there is not much demand for it in Singapore. How many bands put out a mastered record every month?

Overseas there are mastering studios dedicated to mastering and nothing else but mastering.

 

[pinkbox]

but do research on digital mastering and mastering
theres a big difference between both areas.

the price difference is immensely different, due to its various treatments.

 

[soft]

Aaron Pereira

There is one mastering facility that I know (err, I used to work there).

It is actually part of a cd replication plant. When I use the word 'plant', you can imagine it as big as your typical pri/sec school building without the field.

Quite alot of the CDs put out by the bigger record companies in Singapore are done there. But bulk of the work are data CD/DVD.

The engineer there is Aaron Pereira.


The company is Sonopress.

 

[superfluid1]

thanks for the healthy pointers.

just curious, what is the difference between digital mastering and mastering?

i assume digital mastering require AD/DA conversion and the other is the old skool analog way ?

ps. sonopress looks pretty massive. i will check out their services. thanks.