Borza Mastering

NEW GEAR NEW GEAR NEW GEAR!!! The HendyAmps "Monet" - a custom color box built by Chris Henderson for Borza Mastering. How about that SOUND???

@howiethemaster and I mastered this one and last night it won a #latingrammy congrats @monlaferte and all who were involved in making this incredible record!

QUALITY CONTROL *** EXPERT EXPERIENCE *** DISTRIBUTION PREP A huge role of the mastering engineer is quality control. When receiving any files for mastering, the very first thing I do is throw them up on the monitors and listen to them as they were delivered to me, analyzing them for dynamic balance, frequency balance, overall vibe, and checking for any possible errors that may have occurred at any point in the process. Errors may include unwanted distortion, pops, clicks, g...litches, phase alignment issues, etc. But more often than not, the files do check out. And here’s another thing about possible errors: sometimes errors can be musical choices. I could be given a track that is riddled with distortion throughout. My role as a mastering engineer is not to automatically clean up that distortion - I have to assume that this mix has been heard by multiple parties and signed off on as done, which means that any distortion isn’t an error, it’s a musical choice. I may ask the artist or engineer if the distortion is really excessive, but even then, the response is usually yep, we want it ugly. Keep it in. Add more if you can. So quality control can be summed up as this: listen, analyze, ask if anything sticks out, but respect the artistic vision. A mastering engineer is an extra pair of ears on your record. A professional mastering engineer listens to A LOT of music. In any given year, I’ll master somewhere in the range of 2,000 songs, and at this point, I instinctively know on first listen whether a song may be too bassy, too shrill, too dynamic, or too squashed, And I know what tools I need to use to get the song where it needs to be for release. Everything else a mastering engineer does is all done with the goal of preparing a song for distribution. Every knob we turn, every format we export your files as, all this gear, and all the communication we have with you and your team is done so that your song will be released in the very best form possible. So to recap, the primary roles of a mastering engineer are: Quality Control, Expert experience and an unbiased perspective on your music, and to prepare your music so that it sounds its best when delivered for distribution. If you are in need of real, professional, custom, bespoke, artisanal, musical mastering, I’d love to help you out with that! Hit me up! And if you’d like to discuss this video further, of if you have any questions, come join the Analog Mob on Facebook and hang out with some really cool people! Links are in the description. If you liked this video, would you do me a huge favor and give it a thumbs up and share it with someone you think might benefit from it. https://www.borzamastering.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/theanalogmob