A quick update on Attack! Attack!, Paul from Punktastic.com has just given an excellent review on their upcoming album, with talks of album of the year, and band of the year! Take a look at the review, and show your support by leaving a comment.
The acoustic track produced and mastered at Earwax Audio Mastering is currently on sale throughout their European tour, and is due for release on iTunes in the near future.
‘A Ninja Slob Drew Me’ is the name for D.J.Brown’s solo project, and his fantastic new album ‘One Week In Sand’ is out now.
Get your copy of the album here
D.J Brown is an eight string bass musician who utilizes and mixes a vast combination of styles to create his own unique blend of original ambient and instrumental compositions, sounds and textures. I am proud to announce that this excellent CD was mastered at Earwax, have a listen to a before/after mastering sample here and two full audio tracks on the Ninja Slob website
I recently produced and mastered an acoustic track for the excellent upcoming band, Attack! Attack! Their recent success on Radio 1 at the Maida Vale live lounge led to a place in the Reading and Leeds Festival, and a tour with Funeral For a Friend this October.
They have recently signed a deal with Rock Ridge Music alongside huge acts such as Reel Big Fish, so expect to
see a lot more of these guys in the next few months! Check out their review at Punktastic and take a look at the Reading Festival video below…
Get your music mastered at the Earwax Audio Mastering studio and you will qualify for our client referral scheme. For each client that you refer to us you will receive a 10% discount off your next mastering project! Refer 10 clients to Earwax Audio Mastering and get your next album mastered for free!
lease note – to avoid abuse of this offer, the clients you refer to us must get at least 10 tracks mastered at Earwax Audio Mastering, and must also state your name on the track sheet when contacting our studio. If you refer 10 clients to us, your free mastering is limited to 15 tracks (equivalent to £225 worth of mastering)
With new audio technologies being developed at a staggering rate, many sectors of the music industry are under threat. The CD mastering business is here to stay, but its evolving into a broader service that is becoming feasible to a wider range of the public i.e. the average musician. The average CD Mastering studio has always been a service that is only available to labels and high-key musicians which could afford to spend large sums of money on their album, but all that is about to change…
Here at Earwax Audio Mastering, we recognise the importance of the changes in the modern music industry. Labels are suffering, and their losses are being passed onto musicians. It’s becoming increasingly popular to see labels that eradicate their A&R departments and only strike deals with bands that have recorded an album on their own back: bands that have paid for studio time, and paid for CD mastering, which as you know can be a very expensive process. By only taking on established artists, the labels can reduce their expenditure, with no studio or CD mastering fees, they only pay for CD manufacturing and marketing, then take the majority of the profit.
For this reason, an increasing amount of bands are ‘going it alone’, so an affordable online mastering service is vital to their success. By keeping our CD mastering prices as competitive as possible we are able to appeal to all musicians, giving them the opportunity to create an album/EP which can stand up against commercial releases. With low CD mastering prices, our studio can also help independent labels to keep their overheads down, and with a bit of luck get their A&R guys back into the gigs seeking new talent like the good old days!
Here is the first in a series of blogs you will find from now on. It’s a mixture of audio resources: some useful, some educational, and some entertaining…
First up, this musical pitch relation chart is an excellent little tool for sound engineers. These charts are very common, but i think this one certainly deserves a look. It holds a massive amount of information within the interface, including a ‘ear sensitivity’ section which is pretty interesting.
Melodine have created a truly amazing piece of software. They have given MIDI-like capabilities to audio. Chords from a single audio track can be broken down and rearranged in a number of ways. Check out the video, you will be impressed.
Two audio clips that were recorded using a dummy head to replicate human hearing, its pretty spectacular. Get your cans on and have a listen! You can also find a few more examples here
This free application generates sounds from pictures. The program reads JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP files and translates each pixel colour and position into frequency, amplitude and pan information. Audio Paint can therefore be considered as a massive additive synthesizer. Hours of fun for those of you interested in experimental sound.
Here is an e-book written by Scott Stark, it’s partially incomplete due to licensing laws but there’s still plenty of great information up for grabs. It has useful info for anyone playing live shows, whether you’re a complete novice or professional musician.
20 Tips on Mixing Your Tracks -
Im assuming you’ve all heard of Sound on Sound so ill skip the direct link (if you haven’t heard of it already check it out). Here is a link to an article from SOS, the title is self explanatory so i won’t explain..
This free Java application is used for measuring room responses and correcting modal resonances. This really is a great application, it takes some time (and a lot of reading) to get the hang of it but it’s certainly worth the effort. You’ll need an SPL meter to take readings and specific I/O capabilities on your audio interface.
8 Free, Cross-Platform Apps for Musicians
Not a bad little selection of free open source apps, mainly sequencers and a few notation applications. All useful for a low budget studio.
Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science
A free almost-full-length e-book, written by the legendary Bob Katz. This is the bible of CD mastering, but also hold some great info for any sound engineer or recording artist.
I don’t agree with a lot of what this guy states, but it’s an entertaining article about audio fanatics…
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