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Posted by SgtFoo on Aug-06-2005 06:25:

price of mastering

Hey gang!

For those of you who do mastering on your own works, or even for others.. what's your price to master a single track? put into consideration that it'll make airplay, compilation release, etc, and such and so forth?? (USD or CDN prices plz)

Whould any1 happen to know how much the high-end pro studios charge for mastering as well??

Posted by Azza Robinson on Aug-06-2005 07:26:

hi mate

check out www.online-mastering.com (this dude masters for alphazone)

also vengeance do online mastering aswell now check out www.vengeance-mastering.com (is there nothing this guy can't do lol)

hope this helps!

Posted by Atlantis-AR on Aug-12-2005 12:16:

Re: price of mastering

quote:
Originally posted by SgtFoo
Hey gang!

For those of you who do mastering on your own works, or even for others.. what's your price to master a single track? put into consideration that it'll make airplay, compilation release, etc, and such and so forth?? (USD or CDN prices plz)

Whould any1 happen to know how much the high-end pro studios charge for mastering as well??

I hate to sound as though I'm advertising myself (I am, but then again, you asked), but my mastering rates are US$35, or �28 per track. Check out Atlantean Records - digital audio mastering for details, or contact me via IM, the details of which can be found on my contact page. I don't claim to run a professional $50,000 mastering house, but I do have semi-professional equipment and a respectable amount of experience, having worked on a handful of mastered releases and climbing.

Higher-end studios usually charge around double my rate.

Posted by retrobyte on Aug-12-2005 15:50:

Re: Re: price of mastering

quote:
Originally posted by Atlantis-AR
... my mastering rates are US$35, or �28 per track.

wow that's a damn good price. I'll have to look you up when I'm too frustrated to do it myself

Posted by dRale on Aug-13-2005 03:51:

higher end studios do charge a higher price, and thats because mastering should ONLY be done in a high end acoustically treated studio

Posted by alanzo on Aug-13-2005 04:07:

quote:
Originally posted by Azza Robinson
hi mate

check out www.online-mastering.com (this dude masters for alphazone)

online-mastering.com IS Alphazone.. they run it

I'll master your track, Aren... msg me.

Posted by Vizay on Aug-13-2005 14:26:

quote:
Originally posted by dRale
higher end studios do charge a higher price, and thats because mastering should ONLY be done in a high end acoustically treated studio

couldn't have said it better myself.
mastering is a very simple equation, you mostly get what you pay for

Posted by Reactance on Aug-15-2005 08:47:

Just make sure ur mixdown is up to scratch before thinking about mastering,

Posted by Mr Rogers on Aug-15-2005 21:29:

vengeance-mastering list of prices: number of tracks: price / track:
1 Track 65,00�
2 Tracks 60,00�
3 Tracks 55,00�
4 oder mehr Tracks 50,00�

This is from Vengance...pretty descent price.

Posted by Tom_cowan on Aug-16-2005 15:12:

The question is how do you know whether your mixdown is upto scratch?

I mean, i know you can't polisha turd, but from people that have had tracks mastered or mastered tracks before how much does it change the track? Is it really noticable? or only slightly?

Posted by dRale on Aug-17-2005 06:22:

hahah yea you can't polish a turd thats why you don't send a turd to be mastered, you send a mix in when you are happy with it, and mastering does make a huge difference...what you pay for is the acoustics of the studio where its being done and the engineer doing it

oh those sweet mastering plug-ins....

Posted by Reactance on Aug-17-2005 07:32:

Yeh,I think the more you work on the tracks sound quality the better, or "less work " there is for the sound engineer who does the mastering.The quiker the mastering can get done well that mine perspective of how it will work any other views on this.....

Posted by The Drow on Aug-17-2005 21:59:

will this help?

Posted by Storyteller on Aug-17-2005 23:59:

quote:
Originally posted by Tom_cowan
The question is how do you know whether your mixdown is upto scratch?

I mean, i know you can't polisha turd, but from people that have had tracks mastered or mastered tracks before how much does it change the track? Is it really noticable? or only slightly?

This totally depends on the quality of your mixdown. If your mixdown is crap it will take a shitload of work to master the track right (Or more likely: the master will suck too!).
In the master's I've received of my tracks the difference was very little though...

Posted by Tom_cowan on Aug-18-2005 13:30:

This is what I mean.

It seems to be, if you've done a descent mixdown then you probably will hardly notice the difference, because it was mixed right.

OR

If it's mixed badly, you probably won't notice the difference because the mixdown was that bad.

When do you notice the diference?

Posted by Icone on Aug-18-2005 13:48:

Online Mastering and Vengeance Mastering do look very neat to me, quite a decent price as well for their efforts.

With online mastering, you get a free preview of how the final product will sound like, so you can always choose whether or not to continue with them before having to pay. Nice service!

I often wonder though whether all this money is worth it, before the track is even signed. Labels often do take care of the track's mastering themselves. Unless you'd be wanting to franchise your very own unsigned tracks and sell them of course, then I'd fully understand the meaning of it (like for example Alphazone does with their Skywarp label).