why choose BTDJ?
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Affordable
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Detailed feedback
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Quick turn around
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Supporting up & coming producers
The brand name says it all. Breakthrough DJ audio engineering was setup over 5 years ago to help the up and coming producers get their music ready to play out in a club or to send off to DJ / labels for promos / demo's. As first impressions are the most important, you want to ensure your music sounds perfect soon as your favourite DJ click play. Not only does it need to sound good in headphones or in the car, it needs to pull well on a club sound system. After over 15 years of making music and countless amounts out hours spent around club sound systems as DJ and a Videographer, I believe I have tuned my ears well enough to make sure in the engineering process your music cuts through on big club speakers every time. If it sounds good in club the first time a DJ plays it there is more chance of them playing it again and again.
helping DJ's breakthrough in their career
ARE YOU STRUGGLING
TO GET YOUR
MUSIC SOUNDING
GOOD IN
A CLUB?
DO YOU WANT TO MAKE THE BEST FIRST IMPRESSION WHEN SENDING DEMOS TO RECORD LABELS?
The main goal of mastering is to make the song sound as good as it can - to smooth out any rough edges from the mix process and to get it ready for listening on different systems like headphones, car stereos, and club speakers.
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Some key things a mastering engineer will do:
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Adjust the song's volume and dynamics so it sounds punchy and consistent from start to finish. This usually involves some light compression.
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Tweak the EQ to balance the lows, mids, and highs. This evens out the frequency spectrum.
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Add subtle effects like reverb & saturation to glue the track together into a cohesive unit.
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Prepare the audio file for distribution by checking for errors, adding metadata, normalising levels, etc.
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The mastering engineer is like a final set of expert ears making subtle tweaks and updates to get your song totally release-ready. It takes a radio-quality mix and gives it that last 5-10% of commercial magic and polish. When done right, you won't even notice the mastering...but you'll feel the difference it makes!
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From your DAW (Ableton, Logic, FL etc etc), export your song as a WAV file, making sure you have no processing effects on your master channel, for example, limiters, compressors, saturation or distortion. If you have automation set up from your master, for example a filter or a volume utility, this is fine to keep on. When you export your song please make sure it is hitting no more than -6db on your master volume metre
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FAQ
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Q - Why do i need to export to -6db?
A - This is also know as headroom in the world of mastering, headroom needed as the mastering engineer brings back the remaining 6db in volume with the mastering techniques.
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Q - Why do i need to make sure there is no processing effects on my master channel?
A - Mastering engineers need a blank canvas to work with, the mastering engineer will apply there own limiters, compressors and saturation.
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Q - What do you mean by "Export your song as a WAV file"?
A - Exporting your song is the process of capturing all your channels as one audio file. WAV is the file type, this is an uncompressed version on an MP3 file. Mastering engineers can only work with uncompressed audio files like WAV, AIFF or FLAC.
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