Masters Of The Universe

So today is the first stage of the last process of recording/mixing/mastering. I am sending off the first mostly-finished song off to get it mastered by one of the companies we are looking at mastering the album. We will send out as many of these samples as we can, here's how it works for us:

1. Band/studio records band.

2. Band has a limited mastering budget and there are a lot of companies that do mastering out there, so each company offers to do a 'test'/'sample' master to show how well they can produce the songs.

3. Band sends out song.


4. Companies master the song and try to impress with customer service (I get a lot of phone calls and email even when we're not recording from companies wondering what we're up to, looking for business).

5. We pick the one we like the most (and the one we can afford), and find out how that company works - whether we would attend the mastering session etc.

6. Company masters the album. We hopefully love it and are able to send it straight to the factory to get made. yey!!

This takes a little while which is why we are sending off samples now, while the rest of the album is being mixed. There are now something like 7 songs in various states of mixedness (don't think that's a word, but you get the point).

I gotta go get this thing sent out,

Max x