Mastering

• Media transfer to mastering workstation, analyze source files
• Equalize and dynamically enhance music to maximize its effectiveness in all listening environments
• Edit and sequence (in/out fades, cross-fades, assemble song order)
• Encode ISRC, UPC/EAN, and CD Text information (if applicable)
• Bit/sample rate convert files (if required)
• Dither/noise shape
• Deliver reference disc for customer/label/A&R approval
• Deliver one red book-compatible audio CD-R (or DDP) with corresponding PQ log and CD quality verification.

Mixing

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Sonic Restoration

Have a recording that needs noise or clipping removed? From forensic audio to musical restoration, ZenMastering's industrial-strength audio tools can solve just about any noise issue...
no problem.

Format Transfers

Need a tape transferred to high-resolution digital? Need a DAT transferred to CD or DVD? Got old cassettes you want to digitize for posterity? If so, we can help.

ZenMastering has some of the finest analog and digital transports ever made to bring your audio treasures from the past into the present.

CD Text & CDDB

We encode CD Text on all our client's red book master discs. However, this is different from CDDB information that online music services use to identify songs when a disc is placed in a computer with Internet access.

For a quick explanation of the difference between CD Text and Gracenote's CDDB technology, read this article.

It is the artist's responsibility to register CDDB information with Gracenote.

It is also the artist/label's responsibility to obtain and supply UPC/EAN and ISRC codes if they would like ZenMastering to encode that informat in their album.

Feel free to contact us with any technical questions you have about mastering your project.