Safe&Sound music mastering
Cascade Records, France : “Awesome work ! We are very happy with the results. Once again you managed to exceed the speed of sound.”
1 Track £30.00 / 4 Track £112.00 / Album £230.00 no tax added.
Allow me to exceed your expectations.
I will ensure your music tracks are sounding as good as possible before release. Barry Gardner is highly experienced and has worked with 1000’s of clients. Your music will be optimised for all reproduction systems. This service adds value to your tracks and takes them to their maximum sonic potential. (Mix appraisal inclusive when requested) I have 24 years of sound engineering experience, 16 years dedicated to this service as my sole income.
This service aims to uncompromising at the lowest price, we use high end analogue equipment, true reference grade monitors (PMC IB1S) a fully treated room and I have many years of full time professional audio engineering under my belt.
I am comfortable working with all musical genres, spanning from dance music through rock and acoustic compositions. I keep the studios overheads low and pass these savings on to my clients. I master music singles, EP’s and albums to high standards and have an extensive clients list to prove it. (See engineer experience and clients list under all pages at the top.)
In short send your 24 bit, unclipped, unlimited mixed audio files using your favourite file transfer service. I recommend and use www.wetransfer.com.
Payments can be made by Paypal on this page:
I can be contacted on 0044 (0) 7810271371 or safeandsound123atgooglemail.com (at being @)
A highly useful and interesting frequently asked questions page is right here:
Choosing music mastering
If it’s your first time looking for online music mastering I suggest choosing with care.
There are a number of reasons.
In the very first instance be wary of websites with text only, without images of equipment, studio or engineer, this should ring alarm bells There are also studios operating with small sized speakers which do not cut the mustard for understanding the scale / low frequency response of music on large format systems. Serious monitoring = serious results.
1) Some of the people operating clearly demonstrate a complete lack of basic audio engineering knowledge. It is shocking to see some of the beginner type posts on some audio forums from people who supposedly master audio and operate at rates above my own. This is my full time professional work, I am not a part timer, studying or using this as a supplementary income, the studio is specifically designed and equipped for music mastering full time.
2) If you don’t see the analogue equipment listed appearing on the website in photo’s, assume it does not exist. That is the safest thing to do. Why would a serious studio be unwilling to show their equipment ? These sites are easy to spot, they are text and graphics based only, no photo’s of equipment will exist. (or they will be stock manufacturers photo’s) You want to see them in a rack, in situ, in the studio. There are a few sites out there that try to convince musicians analogue equipment does not matter. To me this demonstrates inexperience and lack of hearing acuity. Ask yourself why all serious studios use analogue equipment ? It is because it has the capability of adding subtle enhancements to the music that plugins fail to. I believe my clients are worth that investment. Another “curiosity” that some online music mastering sites use to impress the unwary is to add a picture of a flashy mixing console to the front page. It is rather strange because such mixing consoles have absolutely nothing to do with this task, they are useful only for mixing.
3) Monitoring makes a difference. Large scale, high resolution monitoring is fundamental in being a master of audio. The physical size of a loudspeaker system to a large degree determines the low frequency output. A small bookshelf type speaker is not going to produce deep, accurate low frequencies. You cannot correct that which you cannot hear.
I am using PMC IB1S monitors, professional 3 way monitors with carbon fibre 10 inch bass drivers, built uncompromisingly for the job. Coupled with 500 Watts per channel RMS per channel of high end amplification.
4) Check the engineers background, check recent client list and professional engineering experience.
5) I suggest speaking to the engineer on the phone, this will give you an indication of the engineers competence and confidence, why not discuss your project requirements. Just because the music mastering service is online based it does not mean that all communications must be online, this will give you a feel for the engineers knowledge.
You have to ask yourself why you would you compromise when you are have landed on the correct website. Choose online music mastering with your eyes wide open and apply common sense.
I will enhance your music and ensure that it sounds as good as possible. I have considerable experience to apply to your tracks and am correctly equipped to produce the desired results. Online music mastering can save money but it is very important to make a prudent decisions when making a choice of studio for your track or album. At Safe&Sound we can make your music punchy, clear, deeper, louder and more expensive sounding.
What is music mastering capable of?
Using sophisticated reproduction equipment and careful human listening I will ensure your music will reproduce as well as possible on many different types of play back system. This can be purely technical and problem solving but at this stage there can also be subjective enhancements applied. The music can be tonally tweaked to add body, warmth, clarity, depth and detail to the music. Music mastering aims to add value to the final results by ensuring the music is presented in its best light. Music mastering also optimises perceived volumes in today’s market and can also add a certain ‘Je ne sais quoi.’ From the use of high end analogue signal paths. Quality analogue equipment with valves and transformers can add its own subtle but audible character to the sound. Just passing through a euphonic audio circuit can add a quality that is not obtainable from plug ins alone. On top of all the sonic enhancement music mastering offers quality control. Your music can be optimised for streaming services, DDP for CD or vinyl pre masters. Get in contact today for serious equipment, a engineer and some of the industry’s lowest rates without compromise.
Professionally equipped and at your service: PMC IB1S speakers, MANLEY Massive Passive, Hardware, Crane Song Solaris Quantum DAC, Sontec custom equaliser, Summit Audio DCL-200, Vari Mu compressor.