CDs & DVDs
Digital Audio Mastering
Professional quality digital audio mastering done at competitive rates. Allow our team to "sweeten" your latest recording and ensure it is created to the correct Philips AudioCD specifications.
- Maximize the overall volume level.
- Even out relative sound levels through dynamics processing.
- Sweeten harmonic elements of your music through equalization.
- Construct a proper order of events for seamless and creative transitions between tracks.
- Optimize signal-to-noise ratio for transfers from analog to digital formats.
CD Mastering Rates
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Heavy Work
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Price
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| 0-25 minutes | $399.00 |
| 26-50 minutes | $499.00 |
| 51-75 minutes | $599.00 |
| 76 minutes plus | Call for quote & options |
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Light Touch Up
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Price
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| 0-25 minutes | $199.00 |
| 26-50 minutes | $299.00 |
| 51-75 minutes | $399.00 |
| 76 minutes plus | Call for quote & options |
When recording in the studio, a collaborative effort is made between the engineer and the performer to make good songs. However, each composition has its own characteristics, and these qualities can make each song drastically differ from the other. In order to maintain a uniform sound between song selections and create an album that flows from start to finish, CD Mastering is necessary. CD Mastering is a post-production process that makes a great album from good songs. Employing various methods involving dynamic processing (i.e. compression, limiting, de-essing, etc.), equalization, phase-correction, track/event-placement, and much more, CD Mastering makes your album translate consistently from the studio to the home stereo, from the car to the radio airwaves.
In many cases CD Mastering can be the difference between an album sounding like a major release or a demo recording. As advancements in technology has made home recording more accessible for consumers, much of the hardware commonly used for mastering has become available through software emulations. These dedicated dynamic processors have made sophisticated recordings a possibility for the average consumer, lowering costs, energy consumption, and the overhead in storage for various devices all while delivering substantial sonic quality and endless options thru non-destructive editing. Whether dealing with analog masters or previously recorded session files from DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software, various versions of sub-mixes, remixes, and remastering for such items are all within reach.
The last thing that you want as a recording artist is discrepancies between tracks that make it difficult for your audience to listen to your album, or a lack of punch, presence, and overall volume to your music that forces radio jockeys to omit your songs from their playlists. A lot of time and effort go into making your music recording the best that it can be. During this time, one can become too close to listen with a unbiased perspective of the entire album. It is at this moment that you should consult a mastering engineer about what steps are needed to bring the best out of your project.
CD-ROM Authoring
In many cases CD-ROM authoring represents building an interactive CD for your business or personal use. This usually opens with a logo’d splash screen, contains many PDFs, Powerpoints, Word docs and links all the important meeting files in an easy to use table of contents. These are great as a free handout or a way to distribute many necessary documents to your sales team.
Our pricing for CD-ROM authoring is based on developers and the skill set required to meet your end product needs. Also affecting price / rate is the type of development we do.
PacificDisc can handle all your CD-ROM authoring requirements. We charge $150/hour for CD authoring and each project is different - so call for a custom quote.