As delicate as powerful, mastering truly is a fine art. The art of balance. A balance between all aspects of a recording and how it will be enjoyed.

I am part of a new breed of digital or in the box, mastering engineer. Nowadays it is absurd to convert digital audio to analog, adjust it, and convert it to digital again. Converters are not that good and software is not that bad anymore. I make of use of various software, from Sony's Sound Forge to Protools to the open source JamIn in order to delicately balance music to it's peak.

Below, are some examples of works I have been hired to master. I have included some before and after examples of some of these works.

Before In 2006 I was contacted and asked to master a complation CD for an indepentant record label. The CD contained works of pop, hip-hop, and rock. After

Before “I tested the song in four different stereo setups and it sounds amazing” Clay McChesney Producer/Engineer After