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Mastering
For mastering and pre-mastering Lease Sound works with Soundware Music Productions. Before beginning the production of a CD, a special CD is first made; the so-called pre-master CD. This includes:
- Individual level adjustment of tracks
- PQ coding
- Pre-master CD and Preview CD
If your material comes from different studios, the recording contains too much noise, or the sound isn’t good enough, then Soundware offers advantageously priced mastering packages to make your CD sound like a commercial release. Don’t economise on this important step. Mastering raises your CD to a professional level.
All mastering and editing will be taken care of by Soundware by qualified audio engineer Johan Feijen, member of the Audio Engineering Society. Your material is in good hands…um…ears!
Glassmastering
The glassmaster production takes place at the CD Factory in a completely sterile, dust-free environment. The glassmastering and galvinisation form the two most important parts of the total mastering process. First a sheet of glass provides a light layer and hardened in an oven (the resist master). Then a laser is used to put the music data on the disc.
By galvanizing the glassmaster, the silver layer and the nickel layer is grown and then separated fom the glass master
CD audio Pre-mastering/Glassmastering Prices
A pre-master CD will be made from the mastertape you provide. For this a recordable CD is used. The so-called CD-R contains, in addition to the audio information, the P and Q codes. The Pre-master CD serves as the basis for the making of the glassmaster but can also be played on any CD player as a sample recording.
| Start costs (including CD-R with maximum 74 minutes playtime) | € 40,84 |
| Digital editing 1:1, one run | |
| Productions with a playtime from 1t/m 30 minutes (fixed price) | € 24,96 |
| Backup CD (copy) | Free |
The preferred master tape is a DAT tape, recorded with a sample frequency of 44.1 Khz and with a minimum of 3 to 4 second pauses between the songs. The DAT tape has to be able to be copied in one session (1:1 or ‘one run’) to the pre-master CD. Often, however, editing needs to be done on the master. That can mean sample-rate conversion, cutting, change of sequence, fading, standardisation, equalising, time compression/expansion, pitch shift, compression/limiting, noise reduction and the manual removal of ticks, distortion etc. This is done on a hard disk editing system and therefore, without quality loss. This costs fl. 175,00 per hour from the moment the data transfer from the master to the hard disk is complete. You can send the studio master as:
- DAT tape (sampled on 44.1 Khz )
- CD-R
- CD
