Meurig Hailstone – Mastering Engineer

Over 18 Years in the industry (as of 2022)

Have your music (or other audio) professionally mastered for CD, Download/Streaming, Broadcast/Film, even Vinyl & Cassette

Mastering is an essential process to fine-tune the overall tonality, feel and loudness of your recorded material, and to ensure compliance with the latest loudness standards for all platforms. 

VUsAttention to detail means giving you a very high quality result, we can listen to your mix from a new perspective and process it in the most appropriate way for your music. We also specialise in re-mastering old recordings.

Also, If you’re after a ‘warm vintage’ sound, we have plenty of new and vintage analogue outboard.

 

Online / Remote Mastering (and Stem-Mastering): You can send us your tracks to be mastered online (as WAV/AIFF), and the finished product can be returned online or on CD-R.

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Customer Quotes:

“Great and functional facility for an incredibly low price. Mastering service is also impeccable and amazingly priced”. Jordan Rees Music http://www.jordanrees.com

Really happy with the mastering job Meurig has done on my album. And it was a very speedy turnaround too. Would definitely recommend. I’ll surely be using his services in the future again.
Hanno Rigger, Composer, Musician, Producer.
 

“Mastering is crisp, vocals are clear and sparkle out the speaker.Great Job.” Jerome Farley (remixer of Madonna, Lady Gaga, Jay z, Willow Smith)

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The Finished Product

  • Mastered tracks are supplied as WAV files as standard (AIF also available).
  • CD-R masters available on professional A-Grade CD-R (Taiyo Yuden / CMC-Professional).
  • DDP File This can then be sent to any CD duplication facility.
  • ISRC codes and Artist/Title text can be encoded in to your CD or DDP file

Click for Prices, or Please Contact us for an estimate.

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MASTERING EQUIPMENT

Analogue

Tracks can be mastered through our range of custom built stereo analogue / valve processors for that ‘authentic warm’ sound. We also have a vintage analogue console and analogue compressors, plus 2 Revox 1/4″ tape machines to warm-up your audio for a more classic / vintage feel. Visit the Equipment page for more detail.

Digital

High quality digital mastering, processing using custom built Audio PCs running high quality editing and mastering software, including Nuendo, Audition & Izotope RX. We have a vast array of ‘plug-in’ processors for all aspects of the process to get the very best out of your recording. Also high quality AD/DA converters ensure a truly excellent signal-to-noise ratio (far greater than CD).

Our customised digital mastering processors produce amazing transparent sounding processing, with stunning results!

Visit the Equipment page for more detail.

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Monitoring:

Tannoy Super-Red Monitors. ls35a

Harebeth LS3/5a (BBC) Monitors.

 

 

 

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For best results, tracks (to be mastered) should be provided on:

*wav or aiff  files. (16 or 24 bit –  44.1KHz or 48KHz)
*Audio CD
*We even accept 2 Track 1/4″ Tape @ 7.5 or 15ips

  • Avoid sending any compressed formats such as mp3, aac etc. for quality reasons.
  • Please do not use loudness maximisers, brick wall limiters, or any mastering plugins on your final mix as it will restrict what we are able to do with your music.
  • Please send final mixes with a peak level around -6 to 3 dBfs.
  • CD contents must be no longer than 79 minutes
  • If sending stems or sub-mixes, mixing these to create a final mix file will be charged at the usual recording studio hourly rate before mastering.