Mix & Master
Audio Mixing & Audio Mastering at Zone Recording
Give us your tracks and we’ll mix them to your specs. Or we’ll master your mix with the final polish and punch that makes it radio ready. We can assemble your project for duplication or deliver digital files.
Some clients record their basic tracks in Nashville, (or anywhere in the world) and come to Zone Recording Studio to overdub and mix. Others will do basics here and complete their project elsewhere. Home recording artists will either bring us their rough tracks to mix, or their finished tracks for us to master. In other words, we can do any part or all parts of a musical project.
Audio Mixing is a science and an art.
Mixing audio is the process of combining multiple sources into a single sound file. This can be done using any number of software programs. Our program of choice is Pro Tools. Balancing the volumes, the tones and placement of all the musical parts is like painting a portrait – it is supposed to sound like something specific. We also pay attention to whether the mix is supposed to support a story, have a slamming groove, create a relaxing ambiance, etc.
Audio Mastering adds the final 10% of polish to a project.
Mastering is the final stage of audio production where the mix is polished and perfected until it sounds its best. In this stage, the artist may add effects like compression, EQ, reverb, delay, flange, chorus, phaser, pitch shifting, etc. A huge misconception is that anyone can handle audio mastering. You can never do justice to your work until it is professionally mastered.
Here we make sure each song on a CD has equal dynamics and tone, maximum, (or suitable) volume, clean starts and ends, and that it sounds great on different playback systems.