Vinyl Mastering At Crystal Mastering

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Welcome to Crystal Mastering
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Vinyl Mastering
Crystal Mastering has a highly skilled group of
engineers who are well acquainted with this audio
format and know exactly how to get the best out
of it.With decades of expereince mastering for
vinyl, our engineers have mastered thousands of
local releases as well as 1 albums on the ARIA
Billboard Vinyl Charts.
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At Crystal Mastering we have audio engineers whom
have dedicated their working lives to producing
great sounding albums
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who are aware of the technical considerations
that apply specifically to this unique medium. If
you want to work with engineers who care about
your music as much as you do, expert vinyl
mastering in Australia is close at hand.
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A Special Format
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Compact Discs store music in a digital format,
which means there is no need to consider or
compensate for the actual recording medium when
mastering.
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Tips For Mixing
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There are physical limits to what the head of a
lathe can produce when cutting vinyl. Following
are some general tips for mixes destined for
vinyl
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Have the kick and bass centered in the mix. (not
panned left and right).
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Also avoid stereo panning any other bass heavy
instruments. Think bass, think mono.
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Try to eliminate as much sibilance as possible on
the vocal track (de-essing)
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Avoid excessive amounts of sub bass frequencies
(below 40Hz), as well as excessive top end (above
16kHz).
Avoid excessive buss compression limiting.
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If you are not sure how best to prepare your
mixes for vinyl mastering, please feel free to
get in touch with us.
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engineers are always happy to discuss mixes and
even have a listen to them before mastering takes
place. For expert vinyl mastering call (03) 9484
8814.
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When mastering for vinyl, the rule of thumb is,
time versus recorded level. That is, the louder
it is the more bass it has, the shorter the
playing time. Listed below are optimum side
lengths for achieving maximum bass response,
volume fidelity.
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