Paramount
Rates
Studio
E Mastering rates starting at $150/hour
Paramount Studio E
Bill Dooley Mastering Engineer
Mike Lazer Mastering Engineer Equiptment: Pyramix Digital Audio Workstation
A.D.A.M. Audio S4-A Monitor Speakers
SSL Multi Channel Compressor
Manley Variable Mu Compressor
Manley Massive Passive
Ampex ATR 102 Analog Master
playback 1/2” or 1/4”
Services:
Stereo CD Mastering
Editing and Sequencing
Music Editing for Airplay
Stereo and Surround DVD Mastering
5.1 Audio Mastering
SACD Mastering
DSD Recording
DSD Editing
Audio Restoration
Forensic Audio
CD Duplication
Philosophy:
Combing talent with the finest equipment available
is the key to great sounding audio.
Our recent upgrades include the installation of A.D.A.M. S4-V audio monitor
speakers. These monitor speakers allow us to hear and bring out details
of your music that can become lost during the mastering process.. The
Pyramix 4.3 Digital Audio Workstation has proven over the first six months
of use as a tremendous tool in the mastering of music. Featuring uncompromised
sound, flexibility and rock solid reliability, the addition of speed and
superior file management has proven very useful. The installation of Pryamix
has resulted in the average time for an album length CD mastering job
being reduced by 25% since it has replaced our Sonic Solutions system.
This enables more billable time to go towards the more creative aspects
of the mastering process.
The art of mastering in contemporary music is very demanding for the engineer.
Pyramix allows and accepts multiple file formats and is extremely fast
at converting all file formats. It’s proprietary audio conversion
and CD burning processes takes what was a technological nightmare and
makes it simple. With sample rates of up to 384k DSD and SACD can be used
as seamlessly as lower, more traditional sampling rates.
The
Process:
1. Each one of your songs will be loaded into the system and put in the
correct running order.
2. Each one of your songs will be evaluated and then balanced with equalization
and compression so it will not just sound good in the studio, but on a
very wide array or audio playback systems. It will also be brought up
to competitive contemporary playback levels in a way that is as unobtrusive
as possible. Extreme care will be taken to maximize levels without the
addition of the artifacts of severe limiting and compression. Special
care will be taken as to seeing that the stereo image is not compromised.
These selections will be recorded back into the system with processing
and the resulting files named appropriately
3. Each song will be further checked and redone if necessary to match
as musically as possible to the previous track.
4. Each selection will be evaluated for clean beginnings and endings.
Fadeouts will be scrutinized and count offs or spurious noises removed
from song starts.
5. The entire CD will be then edited to run as a cohesive work. Appropriate
spacings will be used between songs and any crossfades should be done
at this time.
6. CD Stop and Start marks are added at this next stage. Song titles and
any CD text required as well as ISRC codes and UPC codes.
7. A Pyramix CD image file is then burned. If higher sample rates than
44.1 are used, they are converted at this time. This process can be done
realtime, but there is no consequence to running it at high speed (appox.
8x). However, it is the perfect opportunity to hear your project back
before CD’s are burned.
8. CD’s can then be burned from this image file. Since it is a file
and not streaming PCM audio it is not necessary to run at single speed.
