2 TRACK EDITING AND MASTERING $75.00 per HOUR:

• SOURCE MATERIAL IS THOROUGHLY AND CAREFULLY AUDITIONED. EACH SONG IS ASSESSED FOR POTENTIAL PROBLEMS SUCH AS DIGITAL DROPOUTS, NOISE, DIGITAL SPIKES AND DISTORTION.
• YOUR PROJECT IS LISTENED TO AS A WHOLE, THEN DECISIONS ARE MADE AS TO HOW AND TO WHAT EXTENT SONIC ADJUSTMENTS WILL BE MADE.
• ALL SUGGESTED CHANGES ARE DISCUSSED WITH CLIENT BEFORE ANY MASTERING IS DONE. CLIENT'S NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS ARE WELCOMED AND ENCOURAGED.
• ALL MASTERING SESSIONS INCLUDE 1 TAIYO YUDEN BRAND PRE-MASTERED CD (PMCD) REFERENCE AND 1 PMCD MASTER WITH FRAME ACCURATE TRACK LOG.
• ALL SIGNAL PROCESSING (EQ, MULTI-BAND COMPRESSION, WIDE-BAND COMPRESSION, FX, LEVEL MAXIMIZING, STEREO IMAGING, DE-ESSING, ETC.) IS CARRIED THROUGH ENTIRELY IN THE DIGITAL DOMAIN.
• SIGNAL PROCESSING IS 32 OR 48-BIT FLOATING-POINT PROCESSING USING A COMBINATION OF SOFTWARE MASTERING TOOLS AND THE t.c. electronic Finalizer 24/96.
• CLIENT IS ENCOURAGED TO LISTEN TO THE REFERENCE FIRST. ANY CHANGES WITHIN REASON WILL BE MADE IF NEEDED BEFORE FINAL MASTER IS BURNED.

• FLAT RATES ARE AVAILABLE FOR 5 SONGS OR LESS.

ACCEPTED FORMATS:

• DAT
• MINI-DISC
• CD-DA, CD-R, CD-ROM (ALL POPULAR FORMATS)
• CASSETTE
• VHS
• LP, 78rpm, 45rpm

2 TRACK TRANSFERS TO PMCD (PRE-MASTERED CD) "ONE-OFFS":

• SOURCE MATERIAL IS ALWAYS CHECKED FOR DIGITAL ERRORS, NOISE AND GLITCHES DURING TRANSFER. ERRORS ARE LOGGED AND CLIENT IS NOTIFIED BEFORE MASTER IS BURNED.
• DAT, MINI-DISC OR CASSETTE IS TRANSFERRED AS IS TO THE DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATION, TRACK INDEXES ARE PLACED IN THE MASTER WHERE THEY OCCUR IN THE ORIGINAL SOURCE, THEN A PMCD IS BURNED.
• TRANSFERS ARE DONE WITH NO MASTERING PROCESSES APPLIED.
• RE-SEQUENCING OF TRACKS, EDITING, CLEANING OF NOISE BETWEEN TRACKS, OR CHANGES TO PAUSE TIMES BETWEEN TRACKS INCUR A MINIMUM CHARGE OF $75.00 per HOUR.
• MASTERS ARE NOT BURNED ON A STAND-ALONE BURNER! THIS RESULTS IN AN INFERIOR MASTER USUALLY WITH NUMEROUS UNCORRECTABLE ERRORS.
• ALL MASTERS ARE BURNED FROM THE WORKSTATION AT 2X SPEED ON A PLEXTOR 8/20 SCSI CD-R DRIVE AND FULLY SCANNED FOR ANY E22 AND E32 ERRORS.
• ALL MASTER AUDIO CD's ARE GUARANTEED ERROR FREE AND BURNED TO STRICT RED BOOK STANDARDS.

COMPACT DISC ANALYSIS ON THE MediaFORM CD-5900:

• $15.00 per DISC.
• THE CD-5900 MEASURES DISC QUALITY BY EXAMINING THE QUANTITY AND SEVERITY OF CIRC ERRORS GENERATED DURING PLAYBACK.
• IF ANY E22 OR E32 ERRORS ARE DETECTED, A NEW MASTER MUST BE GENERATED IF YOUR CD-R MASTER IS GOING TO BE COMMERCIALLY DUPLICATED! CD REPLICATION PLANTS WILL NOT ACCEPT A CD-R MASTER WITH UNCORRECTABLE ERRORS. THE LBR MACHINE THAT CREATES THE "GLASS MOTHER" NECESSARY TO GENERATE THE "STAMPERS" WILL ABORT THE "BURNING" PROCESS IF ANY OF THESE ERRORS ARE DETECTED.
• GRADE A DISC INTEGRITY OF YOUR MASTER IS CRUCIAL FOR COMMERCIAL DUPLICATION!

DAT MASTERS GENERATED FROM MASTERING SESSION:

• $20.00 each

DIGITAL DAT SAFETY COPIES OF CLIENT'S DAT MASTER:

• $30.00 each

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