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Story goes: Apart from my music projects, I’ve been practicing and studying audio engineering and mastering process for several years now. In the beginning (how it usually goes), I mastered my own netlabel releases, as well as engineered, mixed and mastered some other tracks and EP’s for my colleagues, mostly the releases for Diggarama netlabel – DraCo, bLURiX, PsiloCybian etc. It was all amateur and enthusiast work, of course. As the knowledge accumulated and my ears sharpened over the years, from 2009 onwards I’ve been doing quality mastering with professional approach for digital releases – trance, techno & downtempo music mainly. Since the creation of Neogoa label in 2010, I’ve been their official mastering engineer, also mastering other various releases (independent and otherwise) on demand by other artists. Also, I must mention that I’m against the “loudness war” that’s been going on for years now (not to mention getting worse), where tracks are over-compressed, maximally limited, EQ gains are high in the sky and, finally - you get a brick wall of a waveform that sounds like… Well, semi-articulated noise. I know that today’s tech can allow you, with a little bit of knowledge, how to make tracks extremely loud (up to -6dB/RMS average) without sounding distorted, but either way, they WILL sound flat and with no dynamics at all. Contact me: So, if you’re an indie record label without a “tech guy” and you want your releases to sound crisp & powerful, or you’re an artist with a record mixed & waiting – contact me by email if you’re interested in affordable, yetquality mastering that will work perfectly on every home or club soundsystem. When you send me the material you want mastered, I’ll provide you with a clip of mastered versions – if you like what you hear, we can then arrange all the details. Requirements: 24bit/44kHz (at least, preferably 96kHz) WAV or AIFF file, with no effects on master channel whatsoever, with average loudness of -18 to -15 dB/RMS (K-14 standard), and with at least 3dB headroom in the waveform. Res, non verba: here are several WAV clips of mastered tracks provided to give you some grasp of the sound. You can preview the tracks (SoundCloud compress’ files to lower quality MP3) or the download original WAV formats (recommended). Of course, bear in mind that I’m no magician and that I can’t fix a bad mixdown. I can add some cosmetics and make it passable to the ear, sure, but a GOOD mixdown is the key to a good mastering afterwards! http://soundcloud.co...ering-excerpts/ Website: http://www.deimos-soundlabs.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deimoslabs Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/deimos-1 E-mail: contact@deimos-soundlabs.com