Melbourne Mastering Home for Independent Artists

Melbourne's only mastering house totally dedicated to independent artists!!

homepic *Innovative Mastering for Independent Artists!*
We call our mastering approach innovative because we can deliver excellent sounding masters for a fraction of the cost of all other mastering facilities in this country which means a better sounding record for the thousands of self-financing independent artists that make up the actual music industry of Australia.

A standard rule is that 10 per cent of your total recording budget should be set aside for mastering.

That is why mastering engineers that deal with $10,000/$20,000 plus production budgets do not have the patience for correcting problems that are common in mixes of a more limited budget.

For the last thirteen years we have been working largely with artists who are financing their own records, and our rates are designed to match. That is our niche.

Tubes Passion:

Celebrating independent music? ...and valves!! We recently have upgraded to a mighty sixteen valves in your mastering chain... All surrounded by very high class electronics, just so we can benefit from the warmth and detail of the "classic sound". So anyway, we can now officially nail your "digititis". You see; and I quote, "Tubes Rule"!

Vinyl Mastering?? : : Love it.

There is a big shift going on with mastering for vinyl. If we couldn't do it, we'd be out of business.
We are also the preferred mastering house for local pressing brothers Zennith Records because our masters cut better (ie we care about what we do...go figure).

New arrivals at the Indie Masters mastering suite for your enjoyment:

Digital Nerdery : : The Cranesong has landed!!! This is a sic device mate! The world class mastering device CRANESONG HEDD 192 has arrived at the indieMasters mastering suite for your enjoyment. This world renowned "harmonically enhanced digital device" uses analogue non-linear compression algorithms to pull the depth, clarity, punch and super-sweet harmonics out of your mix and put a smile-on-ya-dial. Already the demand on getting this new magic into our masters is backlogged......definately be worth a listen!
Cranesong
Read more on this device

Massive Manley: The world famous Manley Vari-Mu "juice extractor" dual compressor has also flown in after being modded in Canada with the sweet sounding T-bar mod, bringing things back to their "Fairchild" roots..(for all those nerds out there..!) visit variable-mu website here

Millenia Media NSEQ-2: Again, one of the worlds best eq's, the pure class-A "twin topology" discreet J-Fet and vacuum tube eq (depending on application) is the very latest addition to the Indie Masters mastering chain. We have been blown away by the power of this 1000kg machine (or that's what it felt like when loading it into the rack..) in it's ability to stunningly clarify your mix and also bring some really solid sounding bass, right where you want it - right down low., fundamentally low. Seriously, things are really starting to come together here. (oh yeh, it's got da Telefunkin EEC82's, too). Visit NSEQ-2 webpage

September 2009:

BAREFOOT!: Those of you who have their finger on the pulse would be aware of the relatively recent addition to the world studio monitoring scene that is the Barefoot MicroMain27's. Heralded as the "NS-10" of the new generation of music production, these bare-footed monsters have one great feature: Stunningly accurate full range reproduction of audible frequencies, and beyond.. Huge sounding boxes house twin 5" mid range drivers, a 1"soft dome tweeter and, wait for it.., twin 10" drivers per side, (with 1" of travel!) solidly encaptulated within a closed-box design, revealing a highly detailed depth of information about your mix that may indeed see your eyebrows upraised. The imaging produced by these boxes in second to none. So now we can hear your music as it was meant to be heard. Depth, scope and detail. Perfect as your final reference point.

click for further info at barefootsound.com

The latest testimonial in from the band The Stavros Brothers goes as follows. A little offensive it may be (perhaps one for the boys) but we had to give it some air-time!

"If You dont want your Riffs to sound like Linken Park, Limp Bizket, Korn, Natalie Basingthwait, Kei$ha, Holly Vallance, Craig David, Shannon Knowell, Casey Donnovan, Wes Carr, anything from Australian/American Idol, Snoopdog, Dr Dicknose, Eminenimer, Brittney, Titney, Shitney, Dickknot, Hewey Lewis, Hall and Oats, LRB or a pile of old stale farts. But you do want your tunes to Sound big, fat and powerful like Kyuss, Sabbath, Hendrix, Blood Duster, Ricaine or a whole buch of Hari Krsnas Chanting or big set of bouncing t*ts then you should call Paul Fox" - Andrew Wills,The Stavros Brothers 25/03/10, God bless his little heart..!