Mastering
Mastering is the final opportunity to perfect a recording. Using the very best valve and solid-state analogue compressors and equalisers, combined with the latest digital technology, we can fine tune your stereo mixes to create a professional-sounding, loud and vibrant master.
Using "Sonic Studio Pre-Master CD", we produce a DDP file (Disc Description Protocol), the standard specifically designed for CD production. This allows perfect error-free replication at the CD manufacturing plant and creates the best sounding CD's.
Whether your project was recorded at Castlesound or elsewhere, please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Although all of the studio equipment is available during mastering sessions, typically the following is used:
Mastering Hardware
› Gyraf XIV passive valve EQ
› Manley "Variable-MU" valve compressor
› Neve 33609JD compressor
› Focusrite Red 3 compressor
› Thermionic Culture "Culture Vulture" Mastering - Anniversary Edition
Mastering Software
› Sonic Studio Pre-Master CD 3
› Pro Tools 8
› TC Electronic MD3 multiband compressor
› Massey L2007 digital limiter
› Flux Epure EQ
› Sonnox EQ and Inflator
Mastering Converter
› Burl B2 Bomber ADC












