What a lovely surprise. This beautiful vinyl release arrived today, sent by the wonderful Subsist label and mastered here at BMStudio.
Group are one of my fave acts, so mastering their work is always a pleasure.
Working on a mixdown for a client today. Some nice industrial atmospheric stuff.
Working with some beautiful deep and spacious production in the mastering room today. An opportunity to just enhance and polish the mix,l.
Mastering a really nice, tight industrial album today. Mainly opening up the top end for more air as all the distortion has constrained the sound. Adding a little more space to the mids and a touch more spread into the sides to let the sounds have detail without masking.
Brutal stuff, great vocals.
This beautifully put together double vinyl album by Somatic Responses on HC Records Valencia, is out now.
Mastered with love and warmth here at BMStudio
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Mastering Techno today. Some cleanup in the spectrum, tightening up the lows with compression, opening up the top end with some high end saturation, a little mid side processing to open up the mix, and incrementally getting the level up as musically and non destructively as possible. And adding a bag or two analog flavour and colour.
Mastering some lovely breaky stuff today. Mostly a case of demasking/enhancing detail and tightening up lows, and giving some smooth sparkle. Good production needs less work.
Working on some revisions for a client. Using the Redd47 based preamp stage on the front end of the stereo tube EQ to push the EQ into saturation. This turns the EQ into a sort of hybrid EQ/multiband saturator in a similar way to the Hendyamps Michaelangelo. Great for bringing out detail in areas where you want it. Magic sauce/black magic box stuff, as some like to say.. Hitting the RS124 after this, and all that extra level just makes it juicy and alive. Keeps the room warm too 🤪
So 2024... Mastering some techno for a client's label VA release. Todays words are oomph and phat.
Driving the SKnote comp ,acting in dual detector mode, into it's saturation section and using the soft clipping of the transformer mode to pleasingly shave off some peaks. So you get loudness, retain punch all without that overly constrained and over compressed sound.