Immersive Mixing and Stem Mastering
Arbor Sound has built a client base by delivering great sounding records. Respecting the artists creativity and vibe is the name of our game, and we keep our focus on delivering the best sounding version of the creative vision. Our purpose as a music company is to introduce that vision to consumers everywhere in a way that translates through every speaker.
Engineers can trust us to respect their work, producers and artists know without a doubt, their recordings are in the care of true professionals. We rely on communication, and our work ethic speaks for itself, whether the project was recorded at a world class facility or in a home studio.
Arbor Sound delivers top shelf mixes and masters to major record companies with tight production schedules, as well as indie labels and artists with similarly tight budget constraints. We also work with Film Companies and Gaming Corporations.
Arbor Sound is equipped for 7.1.4 Immersive Mixing and Stem Mastering. We work with an assortment of some of the finest analog and digital gear around, but when it comes to great sounding records, nothing can compete with experience, taste maker ears, and the vibe of a well engineered recording. We possess a true love for Audio and carry a deep ambition to curate performances to sound their absolute best.
Delivery Formats
DIGITAL FILES
• CD quality (16bit/44.1k) files
• Hi-resolution (24bit/96k) files
All files are analyzed and optimized for online delivery and streaming formats.
Apple Digital Masters (formerly Mastered for iTunes)
Arbor Sound is an Apple Digital Masters provider. When creating Apple Digital Masters, the audio is analyzed and optimized here at Arbor Sound directly through Apple’s proprietary encoding tools. Tweaks are often made to your masters to ensure the highest fidelity possible through Apple Music. These high resolution files meet Apple’s requirements for submitting as Apple Digital Masters.
VINYL FILES
Arbor Sound will provide you with high resolution files prepared specifically for the vinyl format. One continuous file per side with time sheet for your cutting engineer. We take care to ensure that even the most hard hittting modern records will translate when Mastering for Vinyl.
Vinyl files are processed at the time of your initial mastering session. Make sure to let us know when booking your session if the project is destined for vinyl in addition to digital.
CD (DDP MASTER)
A Disc Description Protocol (DDP) master is a digital delivery package that provides the same fidelity of a physical disc master. It offers all the features of a physical master disc (CD Text, Embedded ISRC codes…etc) but enables us to upload the master directly to the pressing plant as a single digital package file. No shipping required which saves time and shipping costs. It also removes the possibility of disc errors occurring during the final burn of a physical master disc. DDPs require verification before uploading to the pressing plant which is accomplished utilizing specialized toolsets here at Arbor Sound.
Physical CD Masters are available upon request.