The process of mastering has been quite difficult and perplexing, oftentimes leaving you with little understanding of how your mixes were handled. You've encountered mastering engineers who are overly structured and preoccupied, neglecting to provide adequate attention to you and your mixes. This can result in costly revisions due to misunderstandings. Additionally, you are unsure about the appropriate loudness levels, how your mix will sound outside of the digital audio workstation, and how to produce physical copies of your music, such as vinyl.
The Voltage Exchange Mastering has a frictionless process that offers you personalized communication with free revisions. We specialize in guiding you through the mastering process transparently allowing you to fully understand how your recording will plug into the world beyond your production workspace, in any format, and sound its absolute competitive best on ALL FORMATS.
WELCOME EMAIL / TEAM BUILDING
Once you have SENT MIXES and BOOKED A SESSION, I will send you a welcome email that starts our open communication together and establish how we will communicate. In this email exchange we can get to know each other and here you can relay to me any details you want to share about the recordings and share your sonic vision for the recordings and have a conversation about the mixes in a safe and professional environment. I will go over pricing and set the expectations between the two of us for the project so there are no surprises to you during the mastering process.
AUDIO PROCESSING
You are in it with me every step of the way. I am completely open about how I transfer your mixes into mastering formats. During the audio processing stage, I determine what outboard gear and digital signal processing are needed to shape and optimize the music and make it sound its absolute best.
Then the mixes are simply transferred into their final formats and I happy to share with you exactly what I did and why via an attended session, a detailed email, phone call, or Zoom call.
FORMATTING
These files are properly formatted into the final delivery formats for distribution and manufacturing. Metadata is imbed at this point and high resolution files are generated for your archives and future use.
DELIVERY & REVIEW
Files are sent to you through FILEPASS via a link through email. You can access and listen to the finished files in full resolution on the platform. As a teammate, you can add time stamped comments directly to a graphical waveform as you are listening. I can see the comments and use them as a checklist for the revision process (if needed) so nothing gets overlooked.
PAYMENT
An automated invoice is generated at this point and you can pay by card or Paypal. Once the invoice is paid you have access to download any files posted.
REVISIONS
You and I work as a team and I have always maintained a free revision process. Let's face it, we work in a creative field whereas perfectionists in the pursuit of art, we want to leave no detail left unchecked. This is how we make your recordings timeless and I welcome the revision process with open arms. I will be open, honest, and transparent with you as a teammate if recordings are not benefiting or improving with multiple revision requests.
We work on a team together to accomplish the mastering. You opinions and needs for the sonic vision is always at the forefront. This is why I do not have a revision cap for example.
My systems are built and design to eliminate cumbersome and overwhelming feelings that can arise while transforming and transferring recordings. I work hard as your teammate to have nothing lost in translation.
I have a deep understanding in all final formats in which music is distributed on. I am one of the few mastering engineers that is am able to offer mastering in all formats:
STREAMING / DIGITAL FILES
COMPACT DISC
VINYL / DISC CUTTING (Coming 2023)
CASSETTE
The Voltage Exchange has developed a frictionless mastering process, that creates a safe environment for you and I to work as a team, bring recordings to distribution, and have them sound their absolute best.
Wild Heart Club
- Band
"Duncan takes care of the band every step of the way and creates a safe place for us to express what we need out of the mastering process. He is simply put, collected, articulate, and cares about the vision of our music. "
Teegarden Audio
- Audio Gear Design
"...a person whom you immediately recognize as someone you can count on. A person who has the aptitude and values which make working with him a joyful experience."
Dewey Boyd
- Forty One Fifteen Studios
"Duncan was open to entertaining experiments during revisions to help me push for what the artist needed. He was committed to the end result and anyway we needed to get there. He is a true teammate."
Reach out to us however you prefer! Send a message or jump in and book a session.