analog mastering 1. A WORD OF WARNING Prior to downloading them, ensure that none of the titles of your project have been limited, compressed or normalised with “finalising” or “terminating” software. This defeats our purpose. Limited or compressed titles cannot be repaired, let alone enhanced. 2. REGISTER YOU EMAIL ADDRESS AND PASSWORD WITH US Please enter your email address and choose a password.. 3. UPLOAD YOUR TITLES VIA YOUR ANALOG MASTERING PAGE Prior to uploading your titles, check whether they comply with the “accepted” categories below. If your titles comply, provide us with them as is (no need to convert to our “preferred” format). If your titles do not comply, then convert them to our “preferred” format prior to uploading them. 4. INFORMATION WE NEED The name of the project, the name of the artists and the exact spelling of the titles’ names. An indication as to which broadcasting medium your project is targeting (compact disc, digital versatile disc, film, internet, multimedia, radio, television, theatre, video). The direction you want us to aim at in the process of finalising your original vision and what you want the analog master to sound like, including any specific issues you want us to address. Whether you want us to prohibit or not the copy of the titles of your commercial release. The 12-digit UPC (Unique Product Code) bar code, if one has been assigned. The 12-character ISRC (International Standard Recording Code), if one has been assigned to each title of your commercial release. The ISRC must consist of a 2-letter code of the country of origin, followed by a 3-letter author’s or owner’s code, followed by a 2-digit year of recording or production, followed by a 5-digit serial number. welcome 5. OUR MOVE On receipt of your deposit, we download your titles and prepare a provisional analog master of the titles of your project in line with the broadcasting medium your project is targeting. Once completed, we upload the provisional analog master onto your CPARIS analog mastering page and we send you an email to notify you. 6. YOUR MOVE You download the provisional analog master, audition and scrutinise it in your own time, make direct comparisons with your (unmastered) titles on your own equipment. You can contact us to provide us with feedback so as to enable us to fine tune our analog mastering and to let us know the order of the titles and the spacing between the titles. Note that there will be additional charges should you wish to download a second provisional analog master. 7. PROJECT COMPLETION On receipt of the balance of your payment, we prepare the original analog master in line with the requests from our last correspondence. We cut the original analog master (Red Book Standard PMCD) and a safety copy (Red Book Standard PMCD). We send the original analog master by international express mail in a sealed waterproof container to the destination of your choice (your selected pressing plant or your own mailing address). The original analog master is guaranteed and will be replaced at no cost if found defective. We upload the original analog master to your CPARIS analog mastering page and archive the safety copy for three years from the date of the analog mastering session.. NO INTERNET ACCESS ? YOU CAN SEND US YOUR PROJECT BY MAIL Send a clone (backup copy) to our mailing address below on CD-Audio, CD-ROM or DVD of the titles of your project exactly as they are, that is without converting their resolution or sampling rate. Our address is Mastering Suite 999, 52 Merivale Street, South Brisbane, QLD 4101, AUSTRALIA.
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Title —————— Channel Format Sampling Rate Word Length Accepted —————— Split Stereo or Stereo AIFF, SDII or WAVE 44.1 or 48 kHz 16, 24 or 32 bits Preferred —————— Split Stereo WAVE 44.1 kHz 24 bits