Preparing your audio for mastering!
Mastering engineer Graham Semark on some of the questions often asked when recording and preparing audio for mastering.
News & Views
Ben Phillips chooses Cyclone
Record producer Ben Phillips chose Cyclone for mastering 5-piece rock act November Coming Fire debut album ‘Dungeness’ …
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Steve Crispe joins Cyclone team
Photographer Steve Crispe brings a host of new talent to the Cyclone team. You can now have a publicity photo-shoot, while your album is being mastered! …
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What people say
I have used Cyclone for my last two mastering and manufacture jobs, and as it is a 350-mile round trip for me there must be a good reason why. After numerous mastering, printing and duplication nightmares from several other similar production houses who shall remain nameless, [clippie mastering, bubbles on the CD labels, off centre printing!], I eventually found a company to trust with my recordings and artwork. The service at Cyclone is always professional and helpful, with the final product being excellently mastered, printed and packaged.
Trevor Brown
Many thanks for the artwork proofs, and for the test CD, both received this afternoon. The artwork is fine, and the CD is a wonderful surprise! Once again you've transformed the sound - quite frankly they sound like a different choir !! Thanks for all your efforts
Judith Ley RJ Productions
PCM8 Series 5 Sadie System now installed at Cyclone
The PCM8 represents a powerful addition to the state of the art mastering facility at Cyclone featuring 8 channel in/out processing with a greatly enhanced feature set offering a significant increase in processing power for high end audio CD mastering applications.
The PCM8 utilizes the new SADiE Series 5 hardware platform to meet the demand for more powerful high-speed processing of today's high-resolution audio formats. Full CD Pre-Mastering to DDP/CDR including CD text with sample accurate waveform editing up to 192kHz/24bit.