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Introduction. Skull Studioz, is an advanced, full service, professional mastering lab, which is highly specialized in furnishing advanced professional audio mastering to the recording industry clienteles of all genres, where advanced mastering techniques, unique, punchy and clear signal flows, are fully incorporated into all our furnished projects, and delivered at fair rate, in rhyme with your proposed budget. We are beyond the forefront of emerging mastering processes, markets and services, which assists us in incorporating all handled projects, with the current and ever-changing cultures and technologies, where one of our great pride’s lies in our ability to bring advanced innovative sounds in line to professional mastering in the recording industry, where the combination of our advanced technological knowledge base, tools, equipments, innovative mastering techniques, and truly exceptional skill, enables us to effortlessly produce results of only the very highest quality, thereby always astonishing our clientele’s extremely.   Our Digital Mastering services includes the advanced services outlined below, amongst several others; Professional Consultation. As a result of the significant amount of forethought and planning, highly required in mastering, prior to the commencement of the engineer’s work on any given project, we are pleased to offer full consultation, prior to commencing with our Digital Mastering obligations on your behalf, as a result of our ultimate desire to produce only results that perfectly match and surpasses the vision you have for your music, so as to enable you realize results beyond your highest and most unique requirements. Some items typically discussed during consulting include: *Unique Requirements/Desires for finished product (i.e. amount of bass, overall loudness) *References of other artists' tracks/albums to be used as guideline(s) *Possible recommendations of adjustments to your mix-down(s), to ensure a superior final product *Any questions in relation to your required mastering process.   Advanced Professional Equalization. Incorporating professional, proper, and perfect equalization in all projects, is a critical part of professional mastering processes, which is the reason we at Skull Studioz, perfectly sort find and apply the correct spectral balance to your project/mix, so as to perfectly ensure that your music performs and sounds as perfect as possible across a broad range of systems, where we effortlessly accomplish this tedious task via extensive listening and audiophile-quality equalization.. Equalization goals varies very widely, and is greatly dependent on the unique characteristics of each individual track.  For example, although several tracks require “bass lifting’s”, several other tracks require “bass reductions”, where at other instances, "equalization surgeries" are required -- for example, to remove certain disruptive resonances.   Track Sound-Matching. As a result of the difficulty in producing well matched sounds, for the end results of tracks recorded by an artist intended for the same album, where different locales, equipment, instruments, and recording on different days plays parts, as they conspire to create collection of tracks that don't quite fit together as well as possible, we at Skull Studioz, are very proud of our advanced unique professional ability to process your tracks, so that they sound like one coherent project, rather than just a collection of songs.   Perfecting the Stereo-Image Another vital element in ensuring a high-quality, mastered final product, is ensuring that the stereo image of your mix, utilizes the full available stereo range, without causing a disturbing out-of-phase content. For example, some tracks that we master, require inserting wide-bass expansion to produce improved sounds, whereas in the case of other tracks (i.e. with mastering for vinyl), we incorporate mono for the bass contents. In other cases, the stereo image requires shrinking, while, conversely, other tracks require extensive  widening and sometimes even multi-band widening (e.g. different frequency ranges receive different amounts of widening and shrinking). The intricate and complicated details in this process, makes it an environment where the expertise and trained ears of the mastering sound engineer, are critical in ensuring a perfect final product, which is what Skull Studioz professional engineers effortlessly incorporate in all furnished projects.   Advanced Dynamic Enhancement. As a result of Skull Studioz incorporation and utilization of the latest technologies available in the industry, we are able to expertly modify the “punch”, "attack" and "decay" phase of the elements in your mix project, thereby, further improving the overall final sound of your mastered material to perfection, as required. Also, even if the dynamics and attacks of your track have been flattened (as by a limiter or "high tape-compression,") we are often able to bring your music "back to life."   Advanced Harmonic Enhancement and Warmth Improvement “Harmonic and Warmth Enhancement" plays a major and vital role in the observed difference between a mastered and un-mastered track, which is a key part of our mastering process. Skull Studioz, furnishes all our clients with mastered tracks which contains music/sounds that comes truly “alive”, as a result of the dramatic improvement of all project materials, to perfect horizons at this stage, by incorporating new harmonic content(s) to fundamental frequencies.   Boosting the Level Higher. We professionally and effectively maximize the average level of your mix, and perfectly bring out small details -- what we like to call "ear-candy", by professionally fine-tuning the compression perfectly, which is used to maximize the average level of your mix, without squishing attacks or making your mix flat and muddy. In any case, all existing flexibility options are possible -- per our clients' wishes, where we can increase loudness, or simply stay more neutral (to create a more dynamic mastered mix project).   Professional Transparent Limiting Skull Studioz utilizes professional and very innovative advanced methods, to retain clarity while still maintaining perceived loudness; this process, which we have termed "Transparent Limiting," delivers tracks with the same perceived loudness as other mastering firms, but with very pleasing, musical limiting that minimizes artefacts and helps to prevent ear fatigue.   Applying the best Dithering Because we must convert your project down to 16-bit or 24-bit, we apply what is termed "dithering" at the end of the mastering process. The need for dithering arises because, at low signal levels, there is still a measurable amount of distortion caused by the quantization error becoming correlated to the signal level. To eliminate this problem, we add random noise to the least significant part of each digital word. This cancels the correlation between the signal level and the quantization error, allowing the digital system to encode amplitudes that are smaller than the least significant part. Although admittedly a technical process, the result certainly isn't -- dither is absolutely required for good digital audio recording and processing.   Professional Denoising Our most advanced, professional, high-end and newest restoration tools, are used to remove any noise and artefacts that your project material might contain, regardless of their origin or characteristic. Some common noise sources include: Tape Recordings Microphones Chains of poorly-constructed analog equipment  Vinyls Guitar Amps Spurious room noises   Professional Declicking / Decrackling For project mixes originating from Vinyl, which requires re-mastering, or which contains clicks or crackles for any other reason, we will perfectly make them disappear professionally, without leaving any artefacts, nor destroying any musical content.   Professional Dehumming For project mixes containing 50/60Hz humming and its harmonics (100/120 Hz, 200/240 Hz, etc), caused by power supplies, guitars, amps, or just bad cable connections, this would be perfectly removed professionally. One major cause of humming derives from the fact that audio wiring is very susceptible to "ground loops." which can occur, for example, when two pieces of audio equipment are plugged into different power outlets that have a difference in their respective "ground potentials." The result is that if a signal flows from one piece to the other via an unbalanced connection, this potential difference causes a spurious current, in turn creating an audible "hum" at the AC frequency (50 or 60 Hz) and its harmonics (100/120 Hz, 200/240 Hz, etc).   High Resolution Professional Processing All processing incorporated into any project mix handled by us, is done at 64bit Floating Point, 176kHz, and is transferred over the best D/A A/D converters. "What is floating point?" Floating point is simply referred to a way of digitally representing, real numbers (typically as a "mantissa" multiplied by a base 2 "exponent"). In the IEEE 754 floating point standard, 64-bit floating point numbers consist of one sign bit (e.g. + or -), 11 exponent bits, and 52  bits for the mantissa. As for "sampling rate," the technical definition is that it "defines the number of samples per second taken from a continuous (e.g. analog) signal to make a discrete (e.g. digital) signal." All other things being equal, as the sampling rate increases, the digital 'approximation' of the analog signal improves.  This is one reason music from a CD (44,1kHz) would normally sound better than music over a telephone (8kHz), even if the same audio equipment was used to listen to the audio.   Editing Skull Studioz furnishes all our clients with advanced professional editing of all their mix projects, as they require. For example, if you require, we will digitally fade the beginning and end of your tracks, or rearrange whole parts of them, enabling the possibility to, for example, swap the first and second chorus components on a track, or realize several other editing requirements at your request.   Providing CD Image / Shipping In addition to receiving your mastered music back as single files, we can also supply you with an image of your Master CD, ready to burn with your favorite CD recording application (for example, programs such as Nero Burning ROM on PCs, or Toast Platinum on Macs). Of course, shipping of your Master CD is also possible via standard mail or FedEx Courier.   Including PQ Sheet For every CD image, or snail mail delivered Master CD, you will get a PQ Sheet containing all of the information that the CD manufacturing plant will need for replicating your CD, or for when they transfer to Exabyte. Some may wonder as to the origin of PQ Sheets. In brief, they are a result of the so-called "Red Book" standard, which defines all aspects of the Compact Disc Digital Audio system. As part of this standard, information other than the bitstreams making up the actual audio/music is digitally encoded onto a CD.  This data includes track numbers, times, names, and ISRCs (ISRC = International Standard Recording Code). This is all incorporated into a CD's PQ Sheet.   Preparing for Internet Distribution For our clients with intentions to distribute their music via the internet, we can additionally provide you with high quality MP3’s of your project. Because we prepare and encode each song with individual settings, you are ensured the very highest quality that is possible within the format. If you are interested in aggressively marketing your music via the internet or any offline medium, using the most advanced and professional means possible that would guarantee you of success beyond the 100.10% peak, then visit Skull E-Adz (www.skulleadz.com) immediately, and your requirement would be realized within JUST FEW WEEKS, beyond your wildest unique imagination possible!!

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