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[english] MAINFRAME MASTERING is an audiophile mastering + production studio in Frankfurt City, Germany, established by producer / engineer Frank Marheineke aka MAINFRAME. We offer HI-END ANALOG MASTERING, mix-engineering, audio-restoration and recording services at surprisingly low rates. We commit ourselfes to give you the best experience in sound you ever imagined! Try our online service - it's tremendously sounding, reliable, personal, with very fast turn-around times and guaranteed to your satisfaction. If you like your sound to be fat, punchy, warm, deep, crisp and loud, our service is definitely for you. Call +49-069-95956990 or email for a prompt booking. [prices/rates]
[deutsch] MAINFRAME MASTERING ist ein audiophiles Mastering und Produktions Tonstudio im Herzen Frankfurts am Main, gegründet von Musikproduzent und Toningenieur Frank Marheineke, alias MAINFRAME. Wir bieten professionelles ANALOGES MASTERING, Hi-End Tonbearbeitung, Audio-Mischung, Ton-Restauration und Mikrophon-Aufnahmen zum erstaunlich niedrigen Preis! Probieren Sie unseren Service aus - das Ergebnis klingt Erstaunlich, unser Service ist zuverlässig, persönlich und schnell. Wenn Sie Ihren SOUND fett, ausdrucksstark, warm, knackig, musikalisch, laut, 3-dimensional und detailliert mögen, dann ist unser Service für Sie! Für Informationen und schnelle Termine rufen Sie 069-95956990 an oder einfach per email. [Preisliste]
AUDIO MASTERING is the "art and science" of processing your final (stereo) mix/recording at a very high standard to be the best sounding it can be. It's is the final stage in the music-production process, right before PRESSING + PUBLISHING. The classic approch is to tastefully FILTER/EQUALIZE the mix as a total, control dynamics and transfer it to a destination medium for replication. However, the modern approach includes much heavier DYNAMIC-PROCESSING, so that the music-level would be at or close to the genres COMMON LEVEL and SOUND. To do so can be very tricky since there's a maximum peak-level a track can have, that's 0dbfs in digital. This is the inherent barrier and you can't rise the peak-level any further. To get louder, the energy, usually refered to as rms-level, can be rised without so much affecting the peak-value, best done with dedicated ANALOG TOOLS where you can mix dynamic and saturation characteristics to achieve a nice competitive level. What you'd get back out of this process is a MASTER you can use to publish. That can be just a wav/aiff/mp3-file (e.g. online) or a physical CD-PREMASTER (cd) that contains the arranged, processed recordings with additional coding (PQ, ISRC, UPC/EAN, CD-TEXT) in order to be the definitive BLUEPRINT FOR DUPLICATION.
MAINFRAME MASTERING got officially announced as member of the VOVOX PURUM scroll, a label provided to those studios attaining the highest standard of sound transmission using exclusively and consequently VOVOX SOUND CONDUCTORS. It was very unexpected to me to receive this honor, but proud to present it within this photograph. VOVOX is a specialized brand in producing sound conductors / cables at a new, almost esoteric level of approach and claim. so, i must say, they have succeded. This is not your ordinary cable, but an ultra transparent transmitter of signals in between the signal chain, and not only that but providing the same technology to the adapt of digital and power cables. After weeks of extensively testing these entities i came to believe that these are far superior to any other brand i was using before. And no, i'm not getting paid for this, it cost me an awfull lot of money... but very worth it! link
"Ich bin gerad aufgewacht, hab meine Augen aufgemacht , Für einen ersten Schritt ist es nie zu spät , ich habe angefangen, ich hab jetzt Ökostrom, Ich will mein Leben, weil es sonst ein andrer lebt, Es ist nie zu spät ..." the encouraging text of MIA's song ÖKOSTROM is one of many possible expressions of small things we can do to change life for a better. MAINFRAME MASTERING is now powered by a greenpeace recommended provider/producer of green electricity - meaning NO NUCLEAR POWER, insignificant CO2 EMISSIONS and based on 100%RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES. Don't fall for the RECS certificate swindle - please join this movement and get real... what else can you do ? atomausstieg-selber-machen wiki
It's a bit hard to distinguish from the picture but the studio atmosphere is indeed intensely colorfull, at least in the evening when i manage to work the most - i like the light of shiny diodes blinking combined with a nice moody lightning - and yes, there's a lavalamp in the back, for sure a sign of a studio like the neonlight-tooth in the window of any dentist ;) It's often about the mood you're in how you feel the music and the sound and base your decisions on - i try to keep it constant. And beside the fun factor there are the more technical aspects as well you want to be in the mood for : recursively checking and comparing for the spectral balance, finding the right balance of mono-content and stereo-basis while looking for phase anomalies and getting the level right by using the master compressor, converting to digital and limiting for the final db. I, as well as many other responsible mastering and mixing engineers, use Bob Katz' invented K-metering system for reference but i also learned the most common standard levels for diverse music styles @ fullscale and even better: RMS, wich messures the energy inherent a signal. In my humble processing strategy lies a certain quality to get a loud sound without clipping everything to death to challenge the ultimate loudness war. It's the combination of right eq-ing, fullrange signals, gaining, channel saturation, tube and iron mix saturation, bus-compression, careful converter clipping - if necessary - and brickwall limiting - if necessary - to get you there, but recently with my 100% analog singnal chain it's all working out perfectly without clipping and limiting at all. What you can barely see in the picture is the full range frames of thick acoustic insulation on each wall as well as the 360° absorber treatment on the wall tops and ceiling and basstraps in the corners and back, thus keeping the sound real ! // making hand signs ;} // myspace