expert mastering services to perfect your final mix
Mastering is the crucial final step in the audio production process. This is where your music receives a final layer of polish and magic, ensuring it sounds great across all platforms and playback systems.
My mastering services are designed to give your tracks the professional finish they deserve, enhancing their clarity, balance, and impact while preserving your unique artistic vision. As a mastering engineer, my role is to fine-tune the details, ensuring your music reaches its fullest potential before release.
With meticulous attention to detail, I focus on maximising the potential of your mix, ensuring it meets technical industry standards while standing out in any environment; whether it's being heard on streaming platforms, radio, or any other listening environment.
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Mastered by Max Richardson
experienced mastering you can trust
My mastering studio has been designed to provide high-quality, transparent monitoring, perfectly suited to the demands of a mastering workflow. By using industry-standard software and my experienced ears, my goal is to breathe life into your music, preserving every nuance with clarity and depth for your listeners.
I take pride not only in technical precision, but also in creativity and my collaborative process. By understanding your influences and artistic vision, I ensure the final master reflects the best possible version of your music.
As a musician myself, I know how much your music means to you. It’s my priority to optimise your releases, ensuring they sound their very best, no matter where they’re heard.
Apple Digital Masters certified
Apple Digital Masters (formerly ‘Mastered for iTunes’) is a certification program designed to ensure that music meets the highest technical standards for digital distribution.
The program ensures that your listeners hear the best quality version of your music, delivering high-resolution audio that captures every nuance of your music.
As one of Apple Music’s approved mastering engineers, the releases I master are eligible for release as Apple Digital Masters, delivering outstanding fidelity through the use of top-quality digital audio codecs.
mastering services & pricing
Stereo mastering
Mastering is the final layer of polish a track receives, transforming your bounced mix into a final track that’s ready for release. I utilise a range of industry standard tools to give your music the care and attention that it deserves before being heard by your audience.
I ensure that your music translates accurately to your audience through carefully crafted decisions on factors such as EQ, compression, and stereo imaging. My fully-treated studio setup ensures that your music is heard with clarity and fidelity, allowing me to carefully tweak your music to deliver the final finishing touches.
Pricing: £40 GBP Per Track
stem mastering
Stem mastering is perfect for projects requiring a little more attention to detail. Perhaps one element isn’t sitting right in the mix, or the vocals don’t cut through the way you originally envisioned.
With my stem mastering services, I master your music in instrumental layers to achieve a cohesive, professional sounding final product.
I individually master your stems, and then treat your master bus to deliver a polished final master that’s ready for release.
Pricing: £80 GBP Per Track
(Maximum 6 Stems)
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If you’re working on music that you want to get mastered, I’d love to hear from you.
For mastering enquiries, please mention the genre of project, how many tracks you’re working on, and any influences or inspirations that you’d like me to aim towards in my final master.
FAQs
what is mastering?
Mastering is the final step of the audio production process, where your final mix is transformed into a release-ready song.
Through carefully applying EQ, compression and saturation, I transform your mix into a finalised song that’s ready for release.
do I need a mastering engineer?
By giving your music to a mastering engineer, you allow experienced ears to carefully hone your finished song to provide a final layer of polish before release.
A professional master really helps to give your music that extra layer of magic that ensures it sounds great, no matter where it’s heard.
what’s the difference between mixing and mastering?
Mastering is a different process from mixing. While mixing involves working on your tracks in isolation, mastering ensures that all individual elements of your track blend together to create a cohesive final master.
When I’m mastering music, I rely on separate tools that I wouldn’t generally use on mixing projects. For example, the classic 1176 compressor sounds fantastic on vocals, drums, and bass - but on a final master it’s way too aggressive. Similarly, stereo imaging tools are a great way to add some depth and width to a master, however in a mixing context they can easily introduce nasty issues with phase correlation if not treated with care.
how does mastering improve my music?
Mastering gives your music a final polish before release, and ensures that your tracks translate well across different playback systems.
As a mastering engineer, it’s my job to make the careful final tweaks to your music before release - adding EQ, compression, and saturation as necessary to help bring your music to life.
How Loud should my mix be before mastering?
In order to master your music, mastering engineers need a little headroom in your mix. Generally, I’d suggest that aiming for a true peak of -6db ensures that I have sufficient space to work on dynamic processing.
Some clients have been led to worry about LUFS, which is more of a concern for the mastering stage rather than the mixing stage.
will mastering make my music louder?
If you’re struggling to get your mix loud enough, expert mastering can be a great way to add some volume and energy into your mix.
By using a brickwall limiter, mastering engineers can enhance the volume of your track, making it feel punchier and livelier, however this comes at the expense of reducing the dynamic range of your track. Caution is advised!