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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.
ANALOG MASTERING: 50 EUR PER TRACK 75USD/45GBP 400 EUR PER ALBUM 595USD/360GBP
Tremendous sound with great analog eq's + compressors, best ad/da conv.and skillful engineering
Phat tube & accurate solid-state technology to gain warmth + depth and to remove digital artefacts
Multi-stage saturation and compression for loudest, yet un-smashed results
Up to 96khz samplerate + 64bit processing, samplerate-conversion
Professional spectral audio-restoration (removing clicks, noises, dropouts etc.)
REDBOOK COMPLIANT MASTER CD: inclusive!
CDDA pre-master (red book), ready for replication, combining all mastered tracks
Editing of id's, fades, transitions, pauses, pq-codes, ISRC codes, UPC/EAN codes, CD-TEXT
Track loudness calibration, transparent limiting, audiophile dithering + noise-shaping
Highest qualitiy cd-master burning on Plexwriter Premium2 and quality control with Plextools pro
Error-checking & documentaion, incl. 1 MASTER CD or 1 DDP on CD/DVD-ROM + LISTENING COPY!
TRACK MIXING / ENGINEERING: 250 EUR 380USD/230GBP
Hybrid mixing technology - digital stem delivery, analog mix
Routing: Nuendo + 3x UAD-1 > FF800 >> ONYX > EQP200B > NSEQ-2 > PHOENIX > ADC1
Outboard FX: Dynacord reverb, Roland space delay, Roland space chorus, Neve 5042, Neve 5043
Complete input cabling by Monster [Studio pro 1000 series], complete output cabling by Vovox
Monitoring: Benchmark DAC1 > Genelec 1031a / Yamaha NS-10m
*Be prepared for a serious sonic boost!*
OTHER STUDIO SERVICES / RECORDING / RESTORATION / EDITING: 30 EUR/h 45USD/25GBP
HD SESSION BACKUP : FREE !
ONLINE TRANSFER : FREE!
Als Kleinunternehmer nach §19 UStG sind wir momentan von der Mehrwertsteuer befreit. Alle Preise sind ENDPREISE !
Due to german tax law §19 UStG no additional VAT / sales taxes will be added - prices are end-prices !
prices effective from: / gültig ab: 11.2009
WHY IS MASTERING AT MAINFRAME MIXMASTERS SO INEXPENSIVE ?
Well, the biggest constant cost-factor in running a studio is probably the rent. Up until 2004 i was renting a suite at a big studio complex and of course that cost went into the calculations. Then i decided to move the studio to my home. Since i was producing, mixing and mastering music professionally i build several places for that purpose myself, history says that this is my 8th studio ! Over the last couple of years i perfectly improved the acoustics in the mastering room with highly effective absorbers, diffusers and construction. After having build an audiophile mastering chain to meet my sophistication I am now passing this savings on to you with this great set of flatrates !
