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A 24- or 32-bit WAV at the session’s sample rate, nothing on the master bus, peaks around −6 dB. Add the running order and side lengths if you have them.
Per song, from one session: the cut-ready vinyl master and the streaming master. They are different files on purpose.
Each round usually comes back within a day. Still not right after six? Your money back.
A cut-ready WAV per song, or split by side if you send the running order, plus the streaming WAV. Got a spec sheet from the plant? Send it: their spec beats our defaults.
Releasing on streaming only? Online mastering is $50 per song. Ordering the mix too? Vinyl Mastering is a $20 add-on in the Complete Mixing and Mastering order, no second order needed.
Vinyl mastering, or mastering for vinyl, prepares a song to be cut into a lacquer on a lathe. A record is a physical groove that a stylus has to stay inside, so a master that sounds right on Spotify can distort or skip on vinyl. The vinyl master keeps your song inside those physical limits while it still sounds like your record. Hand a plant a loud streaming master instead, and either the cutting engineer quietly undoes your mastering, or the distortion is pressed into every copy.
Wide stereo content below roughly 150 Hz swings the cutter head far enough to break into the neighbouring groove. On a record, centred bass is what keeps the needle in the track.
Sharp energy around 5–8 kHz makes the cutting head work hard enough to distort, and that distortion is pressed into every copy.
The longer a side runs, the tighter the groove spacing and the quieter the cut. Fourteen and twenty-two minutes a side are two different masters of the same songs.
Groove speed falls towards the centre, so high frequencies get harder to track. Which song sits last on a side is a mastering decision.
| Vinyl master | Streaming master | |
|---|---|---|
| Loudness | Set by the groove and your side length, usually lower | Set against your reference; platforms normalise it |
| Low end | Centred below about 150 Hz | Can stay wide |
| Highs | Sibilance tamed so the cut stays clean | Shaped by taste |
| Running order | Decides the level and which song sits on the inside | Doesn’t affect the master |
| Delivered as | WAV per song or per side, for the cutting engineer | WAV for your distributor |
The longer technical background: what is mastering for vinyl.
One engineer masters your song twice from the same session: first for streaming against your reference, then for the lathe. On vinyl, loudness has a physical ceiling, so the loud master has to come down. The craft is giving up level without giving up the weight, the depth and the punch of the drums.
Fourteen and twenty-two minutes a side are two different masters. Send the running order and we set the level for the time you actually have, or tell you what will fit.
Bass centred below about 150 Hz and sharp 5–8 kHz energy tamed, so the cut stays clean on every pressed copy.
Plants differ. If yours gave you a spec sheet, we master to it; if not, we use safe defaults and tell you what they are.
Both masters are made on our studio systems with:
The master goes through our outboard chain:
Outboard chain (Analog Mastering)
Add-ons per song: Stem Mastering $50 · Apple Digital Masters $10 · Mastered for Spotify $10 · Analog Mastering $50. Rush (×2) and the multi-song discount are on the order form.
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Vinyl mastering is $70 per song: the $50 mastering base plus $20 of vinyl preparation, and you get both the vinyl master and the streaming master. Stems are +$50 per song, Rush doubles the price, and each song takes 2% off the whole order.
A streaming master is made for a system with no moving parts. On a record the stylus has to stay in a physical groove, so a loud master with wide bass and sharp highs either gets turned down and reworked by the cutting engineer, or distorts on every copy.
The mix as a 24- or 32-bit WAV at its sample rate, nothing on the master bus, peaks around −6 dB. Add the running order and side lengths if you have them, the plant’s spec sheet if they gave you one, and a reference record.
A cut-ready WAV for each song, or one file per side if you send the running order, plus the streaming master from the same session. Vinyl mastering is an addition to the digital master, not a replacement.
The longer the side, the quieter the cut, because the grooves sit closer together. Send the songs and the running order and we tell you what fits at a good level, or how to split the songs between sides.
No. The lacquer is cut by the cutting engineer at your plant or cutting studio. We deliver the master they cut from, made to their spec if you send it. If the plant or the cutting engineer comes back with notes, the changes for the cut are part of your 6 revision rounds.
2–3 days per song for the first masters, weekends included. With Rush, the first masters come in 1 day per song.
Up to 6 revision rounds on every order. If it’s still not right after six, you get your money back. Full terms are in our terms and refund policy.
Yes. In the Complete Mixing and Mastering order, Vinyl Mastering is a $20 add-on per song, so you don’t need two orders.
6 revision rounds on every order. Still not right after six? Your money back.
Choose songs and see your priceNot sure your mix is ready to cut? Ask in the chat: an engineer will tell you what would need to change before it reaches a plant, free and without an order.
