For a number of years during the 1990s I was an audio mastering engineer at East London Cassettes and Ideal Mastering (in both The Fortress, Farringdon and later the Holloway Road studios, in London). During this time I was involved with a great many recordings; some clients include:
- BBC Radio (digital archiving; John Peel, Janice Long, Bob Harris, & Andy Kershaw sessions)
- T-Rex (digital re-mastering)
- Tim Smith (of Cardiacs)
- Ten Pole Tudor
- Brian Eno (Opal Records)
- Acker Bilk
- Jet Harris (of The Shadows)
- Lee Hart (of Bad Company, Foreigner, Fastway)
- DJ Scissorkicks (formerly of Collapsed Lung)
- Seafood
- Billy Mahonie
- Org Records
- Household Name Records
- Fortress & Greenhouse Studios
- The Beta Band (Parlophone Records)
- The Tommy Chase Band (Mushroom Records)
I run Steinberg’s WaveLab Pro on an Apple Mac system, along with a large range of Universal Audio (UAD), Sonnox and P&M plug-ins for EQ, limiting, compression, and reverb; as well as audio restoration – de-noising and de-clicking. With a choice of monitoring – Tannoy System 12 DMT’s, Yamaha NS10’s, Alesis Monitor One mk.II’s, PMC TB1’s, and Beyer Dynamic DT150’s – in a well treated control room.
- Sources:
- WAV / AIFF files
- CD
- DAT
- 1/4″ reel
- vinyl
- ADAT
- minidisc
- cassette
- Output:
- CD
- DDP
- WAV
- FLAC
- MP3
- Processes:
- PQ and ISRC coding
- Limiting
- EQ’ing
- Multi-band compression
- De-noising
- De-clicking
- Time Stretching
- Non-linear digital editing
- Track sequencing
Mastering – £36 per hour
plus media – CDs & DVDs – £7 each