Zenith Mastering

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Welcome to Zenith Mastering, where we craft exceptional masters
tailored for CD, Physical or digital release.

Our main objectives

Providing you with a great sounding product that stand up to todays standards and specifications

Servicing our clients in a professional manner as quickly as possible

Delivering a finely tuned well balanced master while trying to retain all major characteristics of you artist, producer or engineer

Email us to get started: zenithmastering@gmail.com

Zenith Mastering founder Jason Cambridge is no stranger to the music industry. He has built himself a career as a worldwide recording artist and record producer as well as having an international DJ career since his first release hit the streets in 1991.

Since then he has been carving a career for himself as an independent artist releasing 7 solo albums as well as 2 collaboration albums and hundreds of singles on his own record labels and many other highly respected record labels.

Jason has undertaken extensive work in music library production across many different formats working for companies such as Sonoton and Extreme Music landing his productions on major TV shows such as Top Gear, Ross Kemp On Gangs, Hardcore Pawn, Wheeler Dealers and featuring on commercials for major corporations such as Nestle.

In 2021 Jason began his journey to build his own mastering and production studio which incorporated the best of Analogue, Digital and Hybrid equipment. Fast forward to 2023 and the journey is now complete and we are happy to present to you Zenith Mastering.

Our Kit List

Dynamics

WesAudio NG Bus Compressor
Bettermaker Mastering Limiter
Elysia Nvelope Mastering Edition
SPL 4 Transient Designer
WesAudio Mimas Compressor (Pair)
WesAudio Rhea Vari-Mu Tube Compressor
WesAudio Dione Bus Compressor

Saturation

Thermionic Culture Vulture CV20A
Analog Design Blackbox HG-2

Equalisation

Prism Sound Maselec MEA-2 Equalizer
Maag MA4 Mastering Equalizer
Bettermaker Mastering Equalizer
WesAudio Prometheus Equalizer
WesAudio Hyperion Equalizer

Processing

SPL Gemini Mastering M/S Processor
McDSP APB-8 Analogue Processing box

Conversion

Antelope Orion 32 Gen 4
Dangerous Music AD+
Antelope Audio Zeo DAC
Trinnov Nova

Monitoring

Dangerous Music D-Box+
ATC SCM45A Pro Monitors
ATC SCS70 Pro Subwoofer
Tantrum Audio Angry Box Reference Speaker
Iso Acoustics ISA-SIS/360XIB Argosy 360Xi Speaker Stands
Audeze LCD-X Headphones

Acoustics

GIK Acoustics

There are some things that you can do prior to delivering your premasters to us that may help you to achieve a better sounding master:

Low-end notes

Be aware of excess low frequencies and rumble in your mixes. A spectrum analyser is your best friend and can help to point out any problem causing frequencies that are not audible to the human ear. A great free Spectrum Analyser to consider is Voxengo Span. This also has a Correlation Meter so it can also help you solve any phase related issues in your mixes.

Managing sibilance

Please be aware of sibilant frequencies on vocals with T’s and S’s . Untreated these may cause issues between your vocals and hi hats but can be tamed within your mix session with some basic De-Esser plugins such as Techivation T-De-Esser. If you would prefer a more advanced plugin we recommend Soothe or Weiss De-Esser.

Waveform analytics

Try to avoid any extreme spikes and clicks within your mix. It is always good to analyse your premaster in an audio editor program and look out for any spikes standing out within the waveform. Again these are things that you may not be able to hear within your mix but you will see them in the waveform. Try to figure out what is causing them and fix within your mix session if possible. This will buy you increased headroom 🙂 A great free waveform editor to use is Audacity.

Accepted formats

WAV / AIFF Audio Files (16 or 24 Bit / 44.1or 48 Khz Sample Rate)

Digital Audio Tape (DAT)

Compact Disc

Cassette

Compression & Limiting

We love compression and limiting but when you provide us with your premaster if it has compression and limiting included on your mixbus then please provide us with a version without any compression or limiting too. Alternatively please consider applying compression and limiting to your individual group busses instead. This will assist in preserving the dynamics on your premaster.

Loudness

We aim to get your master as loud as possible while preserving transients and dynamics. Feel free to let us know what your level preference in when you supply your premaster. Some genres require their masters to be pushed and overcooked while others like to retain the integrity and characteristics of their original premaster and go for a more balanced natural sound. Remember that mastering the final process for your premaster and the better your premaster sounds the better we will be able to make your master sound.

Fades & Silence

Include a few seconds of silence at the beginning and end of your track. If you prefer, you can fade out the end, or we can handle it for you just inform us of your preference and provide instructions on the desired fade length.

Mastering & Production Price List

Stereo Master
£40 per track
Stem Mixing (up to 12 stems)
£100 per track
Stem Mixing (up to 24 stems)
£150 per track
Dat Restoration
£30 per track
Production / Mixdown
£50 per hour

Email us to get started: zenithmastering@gmail.com

We are happy to supply 3 revisions to your masters at no extra cost. We understand that this is a personal and artistic thing and our main objective is to keep our clients happy and want to come back again.

Reference tracks are welcome!

When delivering a premaster to us ideally we would require 4 to 6db of headroom if possible meaning your premaster should have a peak level of between -6 to -4db. This is easily achievable with good gain staging.

If you are not familiar with this practice then here is a great video that will explain and also offer free templates for your DAW.

Clients

Nathan Haines (NZ) – Newcleus (USA) – DJ Koncept (NZ) – Orlando Voorn (USA) – DJ Terraform (UK) – Mackadena (NL) – Lawze & Demos (UK) – Albert Wesker (NZ) – Alex Pipes (NZ) – DJ Marky (BRA) – Makoto (JP) – King Kapisi (NZ) – Teremoana Rapley (NZ) – Keith Mac (UK) – Big Bud (UK) – Jurgen Bouman (NL) – Al T Mclaren (USA) – BYNX (USA) – The Autobots (UK) – Gucci Bass (USA) – Leon Price (UK) – State Of The Nation (UK) – JFB (UK) – Q-Bert (USA) – Break (UK) – MC Excellent (NL) – DJ Benzocaine (USA) – DJ Domination (USA) – King & Early (UK) – State Of The Nation (UK) – Matt Early (UK) – Lee Jeffries (UK) – Surplus (UK) – Byron The Aquarius (USA) – Sparra (UK) – Shaybo (UK) – Report Of Animals (UK) – The Saint (CH) – Filthy Philp (AUS) – Steve Lawler (UK) – Istoria (BE) – Bushdoctor Promotions (UK) – Spikey Tee (UK) – Legendury Beatz (UK) – Electronic Youth (UK) – Offplan (UK) – Eavesdrop (NZ) – Crackazat (UK) – Risky (NZ) – DJ Dymond (UK) – Jim Rider (UK) – Third Nature (NZ) – Dip Vertigo (USA) – Sonic Wax (UK) – Forreal (UK) – Studio South (NZ) – Professor Mono (IRL) – Rodney P (UK) – Black Eyes (UK) Owen E (IRL) Imaginary Disc (UK) Will Miles (USA) Jungle Drummer (UK) Inguerzon (CL) Bondy (UK) Louis Y2K (PR) Tinie Tempah (UK)