Supply us with your audio material, mixed down to stereo in one of the formats below.

We prefer to accept the following formats:
     

- Uncompressed Audio  : Wav, Aiff.
- Lossless Audio  : MP4, Flac, WAVpack, Monkey Audio, ALAC, etc.
- Lossy Audio   : MP3, AAC, WMA (> 192 Kbps).

Sending or submit your mixes to Aplus Mastering over the Internet or post, from yours to us and get it back in no time. 
Upload your final mix with our easy to use upload system. 

Goto the 'Shop' and decide what option you need :

- For single audio track mastering, choose Single Track.
- For multiple tracks that need mastered as single tracks, choose Multiple Tracks.
- Finally when you have multiple tracks that need to be sounding as an album, choose Full Album.

Instructions will follow afther you have chosen. 

On your own User Account page, you can sign up for your account. Or go directly to our Shop and chose. Then Upload your songs / tracks with our easy webbased upload system. We will send you back a mastered sample of your song, if you do not pay upfront. When you have paid and accept the our high quality masterings when we are finished with your content, we will send you an email and place all mastered song / tracks on your personal w web account. And you can download the finished product from your own user directory!

Before you send off all your Stereo Mixes to Aplus Mastering Engineers to get Mastered, Check the Mix! 

There are a number of audio mixing and editting tips that will help you prepare your mixes before submitting to Aplus Audio Mastering studio.
It is important to know how to prepare your mix, so you can get the best sound for your songs!
When quality is at stake, be sure to read this page and spend some time to get your mixes right.

 

Audio mastering is a process that stands far from mixing, it is the next stage afther mixing and it is the final stage for sound quality. Actually while mixing we do not attend the loudness much, we mix. What everybody is thinking of 'How to get our mix sound loud'! That is what Aplus Audio Mastering stands for, most likely preferred that your mix will become an adequate to commercial radio, CD or MP3 streaming levels, just to fit in correctly. We do not attend the Loudness War, but we need appropiate levels and professional quality. Also when Mastering a Full Album, Aplus Mastering will make the whole Album Sound as an Album. We name it 'the album sound'. So Aplus Mastering can do single tracks as well as full albums, and create a good quality professional sound for you. But however, mixing is an important stage before Aplus Mastering can be done. So we ask you to attend some time and thought before sending your mixes to Aplus Mastering Engineers.

Check, Check, Double Check!

0. You should do these mix check steps before you plan to hand your project to our Aplus Mastering Engineer.
1. Eliminate any noise or pops that may be in each single track. Apply fades or cuts or mutes to spots containing recorded noise, pops or clicks.  
2. Keep Your Mix Clean And Dynamic. Unless there is a specific sound you need, do not put compressing or processing on the master out of the mixing bus. It is best to keep the master buss free of outboard processing or plugins. Dont add any processing to the overall mix, just to individual channels.There should never be a limiter or loudness maximiser set on the master out mix bus!
3. The loudest part in a mix should peak at no more that -3db on the master bus, leaving headroom. It does not matter How Loud your mix sounds at this time, mixing means mixing.
4. Does your mix Work In Mono? As a final reality check, switch the master buss output to mono and make sure that there is no weakening or thinning out of the sound. In any event, do not forget to switch the bussing back to stereo afther this check.
5. Only when a mix is completed and finished off, and your are happy with the overall mixing sound and quality, then the next fase is Aplus Mastering to do their work. 
6. Normalising a track is not necessarily a good idea.
7. Dont add any fades or crossfades, anywhere. Dont fade beginning or end.
8. Do not dither individual mixes.
9. You can output the mix on a stereo track before sending to Aplus Mastering, save your mix in Stereo. Use a lossless format! Using digital equipment Wav 32Bit Float Stereo is a good output format.
10. Do not try to output your mix to a mp3 file, this can mean loss of information! If you do want to send in MP3 files, be sure they are of quality, prefer a bitrate higher than > 192kbps, 320kbps is quite good. 
11. Export your mix out of your sequencer or audio setup in a correct and quality unharming format;
12. Finally, always back up your original mixed files! If the song is later remastered for any reason for a re-release, a compilation or for use in any other context you will want a mix thats as easy to remaster as possible.
13. Submitting reference tracks or example songs alongside your mix submission that have a similar sound desired is for a good point of view how your music must sound. Giving Aplus Audio Mastering Engineers an idea of your musical vision. This could be a reference to bands who inspire you or have a similar sound that you like.
14. Put all your files of a single mix (the stereo file, reference songs, text documents or pictures or any file that you need to send) in one single directory.
15. Use a packing program like ZIP, RAR, 7z and pack all files in that directory to one single packed file. Name this file correctly, preferably the track number and name of the track.
16. Now you can send your mix files to Aplus Audio Mastering Services!

 

Mastering Stems

Mastering from stems is becoming little by little more common practice. This is where the mix is consolidated into a number of stereo stems subgroups to be submitted individually. Instead of submitting a Stereo output of your mix, you can send the mixing tracks seperately.  For example you might have different tracks for Drums, Bass, Keys, Guitars, Vocal, and Background Vocals. This will give Aplus Mastering more control over the mix and master. If a master from stems is desired, following the same steps listed above is best for each stem. When submitting stems each file track must start at the beginning and must durate though the end, most mixing sequencers will output this way exactly to the sample. Each stem file should be exactly the same length. 

We master all Musical Styles :

- Accoustic
- Amine
- Blues
- Commercials
- Classical Music
- Chrildrens Music
- Holiday, Christmass
- Conferences
- Country Music
- Disco
- Dubstep
- Easy Listening
- Electronic Music
- Fusion
- Folk Music
- Funk
- Gospel, Inspirational
- Hardrock
- Heavy Metal
- House, EDM, Electro, Trance, etc.
- Industrial
- Instrumental
- Karaoke
- Live Performances
- New Wave, New Age
- Rap
- Opera
- Pop Music
- Reggae
- R&B
- Rock
- Singer Songwriter
- Soundtrack
- Soul
- Latin, Spanish
- Trance Music
- TV Themes
- Vocal
- World Music