Free Audio-Mastering

I offer free Audio-Mastering

You can contact me for a request and tell me what you want. Powerful and dynamic, flat or aggressive, warm or cold, loud as possible... If your mix is at 16 or 24 Bit, i recommend you to leave a minimum of 3 dB headroom on your mix. For 32-Bit (floating point) files it's not necessay. I will do my best and you loose nothing if you don't like it, because it's free. I'm editing and mastering the audio for the most content on the "nur LPs" YouTube channel. You can check this as reference.

My Equipment

What is Audio Mastering?

It's the last step before the music/radioplay/audiobook etc. get pressed, or get offers for downloading, or streaming. So after the mixing process, the mastering-engineer will give it the finishing touch. This happens by adjusting the frequencies (soundcolor and details), channel range, volume and the dynamic range. The mastering-engineer can also reduce noise and remove small crackles.

The Loudness War / Race

Since the introduction of the Compact Disc, the loudness war slightly begans. Some producers said, that louder CD's will be sold better. Making music louder is not an advantage, it's an disadvantage. Because there's an Digital border of loudness. At first it's depending on the mix how loud it is. The Mastering-Engineer can increase the volume by changing the frequency-spectrum and compressing the dynamic range. The DR can be reduced by using clippers (brutal method) or by using limiters. That can be cause in distortion, artifacts, or to a flat and unbalanced sound. Many people complained about distortion or a flat sound. This is also a reason to buy old CD's and not Remastered ones. In 2008 Metallica has released "Death Magnetic" and many people were disappointed about the sound quality. It sounds not clean and especially the drums sounding worse. The unmastered album is on Guitar Hero 3 and offers full dynamic range. Here is a nice comparision YouTube - Death Magnetic Retail vs Guitar Hero 3. And here you can check the DR of many albums Dynamic Range Database.

My Opinion

I'm of the opinion that, metal music has to be dynamic compressed, because it gives a special sound to a mix. But only to a decent point. So not that level like Death Magnetic by Metallica. Howie Weinberg did a great Job on the album's of Rammstein. It sounds perfect.

What i've mastered?

For me (Private only Remastered)

Music:

Public released on YouTube

I know that Youtube compresses the audio to a low bitrate and normalize it, but i hope sometime it supports lossless audio. The main reason why it's there is the copyright.

Music:

Audio for Videos: