Mixing and/or Mastering Services

While mixing and mastering are quite different parts of the process, in recent years the line between mixing and mastering has blurred for most recording artists in an effort to streamline the process. New techniques and tech allow us to go back and forth between mixes and masters for revisions quickly within the same session, so nobody feels stuck with something that doesn’t grow on them, and so there’s no waiting between different engineers.

While we can make it efficient to do it all “in-house” there’s no one way to approach the recording process. It’s a regular thing for us to mix or master material from various engineers from elsewhere, including self-recorded and/or self mixed material. We’d love to help with whatever part of the process we can, but no worries if you have someone in mind who’s not working at Nightsound.

Contact us for our hourly recording and mixing rates.

Our mastering rates for anyone who records or mixes with us are $100 per song with $50 per hour for mixing and mastering revisions past the first version of the master. For mastering material not recorded or mixed at Nightsound, it’s $150 per song with $50 per hour for any following revisions.

Analog Recording and/or Mixing

For analog recording, we have a fully-serviced, fully functional Otari MX-80 24 track 2” reel-to-reel analog tape recorder. The Otari is responsible for some of the great saturated and 3-dimensional sounds that gave 20th century recordings that special something that analog enthusiasts are still enamoured with to this day. Artists can choose to record any part of their project in analog or digital for a final product that is either on tape reels or on hard drives containing audio files warmed and thickened by the analog process. Although most projects are mixed with a combination of hardware and software, a fully analog process (no computers!) is also possible for all you analog purists out there via the use of our fully refurbished, customized, and vintage analog Quantum Audio Labs Q22 console.   

For mixing your final product to analog media, we have a fully serviced Tascam 2-track ¼ inch reel-to-reel tape machine which allows your recordings to be sent to mastering from an analog reel or a digital file imbued with the magical qualities that the analog process can bring out in a digital file.

Transfers 

Not only do we welcome home recording projects to use the facility for whatever can’t be accomplished at home, we also provide audio transfer services through any assortment of our hardware, our tape machines, or our state-of-the-art analog/digital converter interfaces. For more information as to how you can change the sound of your tracks, mixes, or demos see us for a consultation, and refer to your options in our gear list. 

Mixing and/or Mastering Services

While mixing and mastering are quite different parts of the process, in recent years the line between mixing and mastering has blurred for most recording artists in an effort to streamline the process. New techniques and tech allow us to go back and forth between mixes and masters for revisions quickly within the same session, so nobody feels stuck with something that doesn’t grow on them, and so there’s no waiting between different engineers.

While we can make it efficient to do it all “in-house” there’s no one way to approach the recording process. It’s a regular thing for us to mix or master material from various engineers from elsewhere, including self-recorded and/or self mixed material. We’d love to help with whatever part of the process we can, but no worries if you have someone in mind who’s not working at Nightsound.

Contact us for our hourly recording and mixing rates.

Our mastering rates for anyone who records or mixes with us are $100 per song with $50 per hour for mixing and mastering revisions past the first version of the master. For mastering material not recorded or mixed at Nightsound, it’s $150 per song with $50 per hour for any following revisions.

Digital Recording and/or Mixing

While our primary digital recording is done via our 24 channel Lynx Aurora (n), we have multiple digital recording options (both software and hardware) that can be used to capture audio in a variety of ways. This includes handheld digital recorders, hard drive recorders, and mastering quality hardware that -even through digital media- can be utilized to give each project its own identity. 

Analog Recording and/or Mixing

For analog recording, we have a fully-serviced, fully functional Otari MX-80 24 track 2” reel-to-reel analog tape recorder. The Otari is responsible for some of the great saturated and 3-dimensional sounds that gave 20th century recordings that special something that analog enthusiasts are still enamoured with to this day. Artists can choose to record any part of their project in analog or digital for a final product that is either on tape reels or on hard drives containing audio files warmed and thickened by the analog process. Although most projects are mixed with a combination of hardware and software, a fully analog process (no computers!) is also possible for all you analog purists out there via the use of our fully refurbished, customized, and vintage analog Quantum Audio Labs Q22 console.   

For mixing your final product to analog media, we have a fully serviced Tascam 2-track ¼ inch reel-to-reel tape machine which allows your recordings to be sent to mastering from an analog reel or a digital file imbued with the magical qualities that the analog process can bring out in a digital file.

Transfers 

Not only do we welcome home recording projects to use the facility for whatever can’t be accomplished at home, we also provide audio transfer services through any assortment of our hardware, our tape machines, or our state-of-the-art analog/digital converter interfaces. For more information as to how you can change the sound of your tracks, mixes, or demos see us for a consultation, and refer to your options in our gear list.