Detailed informations about remastering audio and its process. Learn why it can be a good alternative to re-release older projects. During the session we are going to enhance the dynamic range & loudness of your music. Subtle compression might be used to remain the character of the songs. Read our preparation guide on how to prepare your files.
Audio Remastering is the process of mastering or restaurating (restoration) older previously released songs to give them an overhaul and sound of today’s recording standards.
The name re-master is often used along with the phrase digital remastered.
A remaster can be done for various formats such as iTunes, cds, vinyl, video game music, movies and sound libraries.
Our engineers are specialized to improve the sound quality of your older master recordings. This can be achieved either from a master tape, pro tools sessions or wav & aiff files. For remasters we prefer working either from Pro Tools sessions, wav files or separate stems.
Our mastering engineer is removing tape hiss using noise reduction if necessary and will be fixing tonal imbalances with eq equalisation techniques.
The dynamic and eq processing is not different to our standard audio mastering and the same techniques will be used.
Overhauling and enhancing the quality of older releases for today’s recording standards can be a great deal for record labels and artists.
Optimizing music for iTunes or other digital music stores is very common these days as well as a digitally remastered vinyl.
Some labels nowadays tend to get their whole catalog or most parts of it overhauled or get it newly mixed by an online mixing service.
A remaster of an album can enhance the sound enormously. However the masters always should keep the original feeling in mind. A remastered version shouldn’t sound over compressed or limited. Our studios remaster services include:
