Mastering & Restoration

The final polish — and a second life for damaged recordings. Broadcast-ready masters that hold up on every system.

What’s included

Mastering is the last step: balancing the overall sound, adjusting levels and applying subtle compression and EQ so the track sounds cohesive on headphones, speakers and large systems, and meets distribution standards. We offer stereo and stem mastering, and masters for vinyl, digital or cassette.

Restoration cleans and revitalises old or damaged recordings — de-noising, de-clicking, editing, format transfer and archiving. For historical archives, personal projects or film audio, we bring recordings back to clear, vibrant life.

a.Stereo mastering+

The final polish on your finished mix: tonal balance, dynamics, and loudness to release standard. Mastered through high-end analog and digital processing, meeting targets including EBU R128 for broadcast. A master that translates on every system, club to earbuds.

b.Stem mastering+

Mastering from grouped stems (drums, bass, vocals, music) rather than one stereo file. Surgical control where a stereo master can only compromise — ideal for mixes that are close but not quite there. The depth of a mix revision at the cost of a master.

c.Format masters — vinyl / digital / cassette+

Dedicated masters cut for each destination: vinyl’s physical limits, streaming normalisation, cassette’s character. Each format prepared from the ground up, not one file exported three ways. Your release sounds intentional on every medium.

d.De-noising & de-clicking+

Removing hum, hiss, clicks, and crackle without dulling what’s underneath. Precision tools, treating only the artefact, A/B-ing constantly against the source. Clean but still alive — never scrubbed lifeless.

e.Audio restoration+

Rescuing damaged, aged, or badly captured audio — old sessions, archive tapes, one-take recordings. Restoration software plus experienced ears decide what to repair and what to keep as character. Recordings you thought were lost come back usable, often release-ready.

f.Transfers & archiving+

Digitising tape, vinyl, DAT, and other legacy formats at archival quality, documented. Careful media handling, calibrated transfer, organised labelled files in the formats you need. Your catalogue is safe, searchable, and future-proof.

Pricing

Mastering is a fixed price per track; stems and additional formats are added on top of the stereo master. Restoration and transfers are billed by the hour, and we send a total for the job once we have heard the material. You get an estimate before we start — the final price follows the hours actually worked, but it does not go above the estimate unless the job itself changes.

Stereo master€65per track · final price, no VAT

The final polish on a finished stereo mix — tonal balance, dynamics and loudness to release standard.

High-end analog and digital processing
Meets targets including EBU R128 for broadcast
Translates on every system, club to earbuds

Name your project→

Stem mastering+€10per stem, on top of the stereo master · final price, no VAT

Mastering from grouped stems — drums, bass, vocals, music — rather than one stereo file.

Surgical control where a stereo master can only compromise
For mixes that are close but not quite there
The depth of a mix revision at the cost of a master

Name your project→

Extra format+€5per additional format · final price, no VAT

A dedicated master for a second destination — vinyl, digital or cassette — prepared from the ground up.

Vinyl’s physical limits, streaming normalisation, cassette’s character
Not one file exported three ways
Your release sounds intentional on every medium

Name your project→

Restoration & transfers

Restoration & transfers€50per hour · final price, no VAT. De-noising, de-clicking, editing, format transfer and archiving. Every tape is different, so we quote the total for the job once we have heard the material — and that estimate is the ceiling.

A whole EP or album gets one estimate for the record, built from the same rates.

The fine print

DeliveryMasters within a few working days of receiving the mix; restoration and transfers on the deadline agreed with the estimate.

EstimateYou get an estimate before we start. The final price follows the hours actually worked, but it does not go above the estimate — unless the job itself changes. If the work turns out much quicker than planned, we bring the price down.

RevisionsTwo rounds per master are included. A round is one collected set of notes, sent in one pass. Technical faults on our side we fix free of charge, however many times it takes; further rounds of content changes are billed at the hourly rate.

PaymentA 20% deposit confirms the booking. The balance is due 30 days from the date we receive the material. If delivery is late past the agreed deadline through our fault, the due date moves by the same number of days.

Mix finished? Let’s master it.Send us the mix — or the old tape that needs saving — and we’ll get it to release standard, in every format you need.Share your idea with us

Questions we get asked

Asked and answered.

Stereo or stem — which do we need?

If the mix is finished and you are happy with it, a stereo master. If it is close but not quite there, stem mastering gives us grouped stems — drums, bass, vocals, music — and the surgical control a stereo file cannot: the depth of a mix revision at the cost of a master.

Which formats do you master for?

Vinyl, digital and cassette — each as a dedicated master cut for that destination, prepared from the ground up rather than one file exported three ways.

What can restoration bring back?

Damaged, aged or badly captured audio — old sessions, archive tapes, one-take recordings. Hum, hiss, clicks and crackle are removed without dulling what is underneath, and tape, vinyl, DAT and other legacy formats are transferred at archival quality and documented. Historical archives, personal projects, film audio.

Whose releases have you mastered?

Releases on Croatia Records, PDV Records and Aquarius Records, among others — a selection is in the grid below.

Selected work