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Audio Mastering

The world of musicians know Ingo Vogelmann as “the man with three ears”. His sound and the results of his mixing and Mastering is well known as absolutely outstanding. So why accept hassle with unsatisfying sound results?

Give your mind and ears a rest and let Ingo give your track a fresh listen from a new perspective!

Mastering is the process of assessing finished mixes and then making the necessary enhancements to produce a finished products, which is then ready for replication or a pressing plant. The goal is to achieve an all around complete and balanced mix, that will sound good on everything from a boom box to an expensive system.

Typical Mastering Session

• Transferring and uploading media into Mastering workstation.
• Analyzing and assessing of source tracks.
• Removing noise if necessary. Making sonic enhancements through surgical equalization and multi-band compression to bring out the life in the music.
• Noise Reduction and Cleaning » Removal of unwanted hiss and background noise. Removal of pops, clicks, rumble, digital spikes.
• Equalization » Highlighting select frequencies to bring life and presence to the music.
• Compression » Suppressing the dynamics of the music to make it feel tighter and to help control volume levels.
• Loudness Maximization » Boosting the volume of the music to its max without distortion.
• Referencing media through large and small monitoring systems to achieve accurate results.
• Burning and delivering master to client or label.

Rates and services

Mastering Rate » € 40 per track

• Noise reduction, multi-band compression, multi-band EQing, Loudness maximization.

Mixdown & Mastering Rate » € 80 per track

• Are you unsure of your monitoring system? Are the acoustics of your room throwing you off? Allow Ingo to mix your track for you in an acoustically controlled environment.

Mastering DJ mixed CDs/sets » € 120

• Mastering DJ mixed sets include: Full Automation if necessary. Automated EQing, Automated Leveling, Automated Noise Reduction & Track Indexing (if requested).

Early production stages » If you’re at the early stages of your production and feel things aren’t working, feel free to send Ingo a reference CD of your song for a free evaluation. Ingo may determine a problem that can be fixed before the final product.

Note: Please keep in mind Mastering can only improve a good product. It can not fix poor mixes, mushy tracks or bad arrangements. I.e. If the kick drum sounds great but the bassline is very muddy, there will be issues getting them both to sound good together in the mix.

General Information

Formats accepted » All lossless formats like WAV or AIFF.

Tracks can be mixed and mastered to bitrate and any sample frequency.

Multichannel Dolby Digital™ or Dolby DTS™ mixes are possible.

All work done by Ingo Vogelmann. This services are official services of L2 Music Ltd. /UK.

On all issues contact Ingo directly here. Payments can be done via PayPal or normal bank transfer, no cheques accepted. Audio and/or film data can be transferred by upload on FTP server, as CD or DVD via snail mail. Ask Ingo for details.

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