We Offer Superior CD Mastering Quality

Our acoustically designed Studio is truly “State of the Art,” featuring only the best Cutting Edge Digital CD mastering Equipment available. Our custom facility was designed from the ground up, utilizing the latest equipment and proven acoustic principals so you can be assured that the quality lives up to your expectations.

CD mastering will give your recordings clarity and detail, giving you that “Big Label” Sound you desire and turning your mixes into the polished, professional sound that is expected by your listeners. CD mastering is the single best thing you can do for your music, guaranteed!!!

Eclipse Recording Studio: Offering Online Digital Mastering

Why Digital Mastering?

Now more than ever, with the rise of the personal home studio, it is important to have your music listened to by a professional who has the experience, know-how and equipment to give your songs the professional edge needed to compete. In today’s music market place, song or CD mastering is more important than ever and it is critical to have a mastering job that makes your CD compete with other commercial releases. Don’t leave this critical step to an amateur! All professionally released CDs are mastered, yours should be, too!

What’s the difference between
Recording, Mixing and Mastering?

There are three equally important phases that transform a musical concept from your imagination into a finished work of art ready for manufacture and distribution. Each requires unique skills and tools to ensure the best quality results and thereby, the success of the project. They are Recording, Mixing and Mastering.

Recording

Recording is the process of capturing musical performances. An experienced recording engineer knows how to match the right microphone, preamp and techniques to the instrument or voice. The results can be simply amazing!

Mixing

Mixing is the blending of the many recorded tracks. This is often the most time consuming part. It encompasses editing, choosing and assigning affects and adjusting volumes track by track and often within each track. Mixing is a delicate balance of the many elements so that every part has its own space to live within the mix. A well mixed song is far more than just a sum of its parts.

Mastering

CD mastering is the final step, the process that fine tunes a good mix into a great, radio ready song or CD. We first analyze the recording and clean up noise, any unwanted artifacts and apply fades. We then optimize the tracks for level and EQ, giving your recordings clarity, depth and articulation. Next we enhance the song to give it the punch and desired intensity specific to its musical genre. And finally, when multiple songs are to be included in a collection, we master them all to fit together on a release.

Experience

Eclipse was founded in 2000 by Jim Stafford but its origins date back to 1973. It was then that Jim purchased his first multi-track recorder, a TEAC 3340s and his love for recording music began. Since then, through a variety of formats: analog, digital tape and finally ProTools, every style and genre have been recorded by Jim. Those genres include Rock, Jazz, Folk, Bluegrass, Rap, Hip-Hop, Classical, Country, Reggae, Cajun, Eastern and Latin. This is important because if you are an Acoustic Singer/Songwriter you don’t want your music mastered by someone whose only experience is Hip-Hop any more than if you are a Rock Artist having your work mastered by an engineer that specializes in Bluegrass.

No longer does an aspiring recording artist need to wait to be signed by a major label to make an impact in the music business. However, a quality recording is still “number one” and it is impossible to get noticed if you have a “demo” sounding CD. Even if you feel you have a good sounding mix, remember, all commercial CDs are mastered. They need to be optimized to play on a multitude of systems and sound good on each.

Get Great Results through Eclipse Digital Mastering

The bottom line is results! We will listen to your mix and analyze what is needed, setting a plan for where it needs to be. Our goal is to Master your music to the highest possible fidelity so that it stands out from the crowd and sounds the way you intended it to sound: Clean, Clear and Rich!

If you are doing a complete album with us, we take it one-step further and make sure that every song sounds consistent with the others. After the audio mastering of each song, we then listen as a whole to the album and make critical adjustments so that no song is louder or lower than the rest. Care is taken to assure a consistent sounding CD. We also will handle all of the editing, song fades, trimming and spacing between songs, as requested by you. The bottom line is CD mastering will make your CD ready for duplication, radio play or club spins. If you request a CD master, it will be Red-Booked. Nothing else will be needed to be done.

***For best results be sure to give us room to work. Do not apply any final compression or normalization. Accepted formats are 24bit/48Khz or 16bit/44.1Khz .WAV or AIFF. MP3s are also accepted . We will return your finished master at 16bit/44.1K unless otherwise requested.