Moreish Studios is a professional music mastering service based in Melbourne but serving around the world. The process is kept simple for the artists and in most cases can be received and delivered online. We use lush analogue chain processing with only the absolute best hand-picked plugins. Produced for any medium, be it digital, vinyl, cassette, CD, Spotify or your preferred streaming services.
Every project taken has open communication and a willingness to talk you through anything you need to know. We aim to remove the black magic veil and make the project sound better than you could have hoped. That’s our mission and we will work with you to obtain it.
We want to make this kind of premium service accessible to the everyday musician. Times are changing and people are funding music themselves nowadays and not only that but producing their own records. We choose to move with the tide. Making sure you feel totally comfortable during the process, happy with your results and sharing our knowledge and experience with you wherever we can is our way. It doesn’t stop there either.
With plenty of experience in the releasing process after the masters are done, we will be more than happy to share any advice we can give and help you prepare the tracks for the release. This includes help with vinyl or cassette layouts and cue sheets, streaming services, and whatever you need. Just ask!
Experienced musicians, engineers, labels or new players to the game. We welcome you all to take the big step.
So don’t sit tight too long and make use of our Free Mastering Sample service to send us a mix.
If you want to talk more about something you’re working on send it over and we’ll give it a listen with any pre-master suggestions to help you make those final choices before getting into the nitty-gritty. Absolutely free of charge and no commitments are required.
If you’ve already been around the track a few times our process is the same as most industry standards:
◉ The highest quality stereo WAV or AIFF (Not MP3) of the bounced mix. Whatever the session was mixed in is prefered. Recommended: 24bit/48kHz OR no lower than 16bit/44.1kHz is prefered.
◉ -3db Headroom is prefered but so long as the track does not peak and hit above 0db we can work with it. A friendly reminder in most DAWs the master fader is a POST-FADER fader unless set otherwise. Any peaks will not be removed by lowering the master fader and this needs to be done via the PRE-MASTER.
◉ Turn off any limiters. Less is more with any master bus processing. Please be mindful of your master bus compressors if used. We understand it can be a part of the mix style but leaving us room to work with to use our ears and dedicated equipment will always be best.
◉ Make sure ‘Normalize’ is turned off on export.
◉ We can provide ISRC codes for an additional fee. Please note: this is also usually done by the streaming/online distributors nowadays automatically.
Mastering can be quite a bit for people to get their heads around, we know. For people more
unfamiliar with the process, or to help keep yourself more informed please take some time
to consult our Pre-Master Guide. It also contains detailed information on file requirements
and explanations for why we ask for what we ask. You might just learn a new trick or two.
