Vinyl mastering on the analog chain.
Vinyl is a physical format with physical limits, and a loud digital master pushed onto a lacquer is how records end up thin, distorted or unplayable. A vinyl premaster is its own master: level set against side length, low end managed so the cutter head can track it, sibilance controlled before it becomes a problem. You get the cut-ready file for the plant and a separate digital master for streaming.
- Cut-ready premaster
- Side-length aware
- Separate streaming master
Length decides level.
Twenty-two minutes a side is not eleven minutes a side. Tell me the running order and the target length, and the level, low end and top end get planned around it - before the plant tells you to re-cut.
The digital version of the same record runs through online mastering on the same chain, so both formats sound like one release.
- ✓Side length and running order planned before the master is set
- ✓Bass management: mono below the crossover where the cut needs it
- ✓Elliptical EQ applied only where it is genuinely required
- ✓Sibilance and hard transients tamed for the cutter head
- ✓No true-peak brickwall loudness pushed onto the lacquer
- ✓Separate streaming master delivered alongside the premaster
- ✓Files named and split per side, ready to send to the plant
- Deliverables
- Cut-ready vinyl premaster per side, plus a separate digital master
- Format
- 24-bit WAV, session sample rate, no limiter ceiling games
- Side length
- Planned with you: 12" and 10" targets, level set to length
- Low end
- Mono below the crossover point where the cut needs it
- Sibilance
- De-essing and elliptical EQ only where the lathe would suffer
- Turnaround
- 48 to 72 hours per side after the digital master is approved
Also in this room: Analog mastering · Techno & house mastering · Stem mastering · Pricing