Mastering is the final process that helps turns your CD into a professional product comparable with something you would buy in the shops.
It is far too big a subject to do justice to in a few sentences, but the difference it can make to your music is enormous.
We offer two services :

 

Unattended :
If you are basically happy with your mixes we will normalise, "top and tail" the songs, make the CD as loud as possible without "squashing" the music and write a PQ'd Red Book standard CD master. We won't EQ, enhance or make any other "artistic" decisions on your behalf, as you've probably sweated blood over the mixes and it would not be appropriate for us to make those sort of decisions without your approval.

Attended :
You will be present at the session and this is where the fun begins! As well as the above items, we have a large collection of audio tools to correct and enhance including equalisers, compressors, limiters, enhancers, pitch shift, time stretch, stereo "widening," de-noisers, de-clickers, and many others.

 

After you've had your material recorded and mastered, we can also help with CD duplication whether it be 25 or 10,000.

This service includes PQ encoding (what order and lenth your tracks are, this is needed for the duplication factory) and can also produce your artwork for you, it may be nothing more than a photo and a few ideas for a cover design, or you may already have your artwork made up on computer - either way we can help turn your ideas into print. you can use your own photos, images and text and then we will put it all together to make a pro looking end product, please call to check compatibility before you start work on it. we can design one from scratch. both are charged at an hourly rate.

When your artwork is complete, we will generate a proof of the film which you should check carefully for errors, as it can't be changed after printing!

If you have any artwork or printing queries, call Glenn at our Artwork Department on 01246 208659 or email for more details.

Copyright Royalties
We do not undertake copyright clearance, which is the responsibilty of the person or company commissioning replication.
Full information can be obtained directly from MCPS on
020 8769 4400

Digital Image Recording Studios use state of the art equipment to record your performance. The Studio consists of one control room and one live room, The live room is accoustically treated and is great for drums, guitar, vocals or anything you can fit in it, the control room is sometimes used for recording too as artists sometimes want a close "one on one" working relationship with the engineer, like may'be vocalists or rappers, this is also treated for sound.

Digital Image Recording Studios are not the biggest studios in the world so if your an orchestra then you will be disappointed but nowadays technology has made it so we can have the highest quality sounding facilities without the need for huge rooms, most peoples view of a recording studio is someone sitting in front of a mixing desk thats as long as a bus and racks full of gear higher than a block of flats, ten years ago thats what you needed but now believe it or not the studios that have that gear Hardly use it anymore and its now probably just for show. If the gear i use is good enough for the likes of daniel beddingfield, craig david and "Fiddy" cent then there's a good chance its good enough for you!

We choose to use Cubase sx 3 as our main recording software with 24 bit 192kh recording resolution, the same as pro tools.

 

For record companies and publishing companies.

Pro quality

What is music production and what can it do for you?

Producers and modern recording technology.

In modern hip hop music, the producer is generally always expected to fulfill the roles of music composer and arranger in addition to the traditional duties of record production: hip hop producers usually create instrumental tracks (or "beats") on their own, and allow artists they work with to select a beat to record over from their collection. Some mainstream hip hop producers, including Dr. Dre, Kanye West, among others produce their recordings the traditional way, by supervising a team of musicians.

In modern electronic music (not to be confused with "electronica" music, but any music created using electronic equipment, which can include rap and r&b, as well as the many different categories of dance music and new age), the producer is often the only person involved in the creation of a musical recording, and is responsible for both writing, performing, recording and arranging the material. The term "producer" is nearly synonymous with "musician" in this field. This change has been partly due to the increase of inexpensive yet powerful music production software, which allows for entire tracks to be composed, arranged and recorded at home on a PC or laptop, allowing the traditional roles of a team of people can all be performed by one individual. Popular PC music production software packages include Pro Tools, Cakewalk SONAR, Logic Pro, Cubase, Reason, and FL Studio (formerly "Fruity Loops"). We use Cubase sx, reason and various other software.

Thats the blurb so what can it do for you, well alot of work we do is producing music for people who for instance cant play any musical instruments, but write lyrics or can only sing or perhaps you've got a basic track using a keyboard, so how do you creat a demo of your music? this is how. give us a call for more details.