Mastering is an essential process all music that is due to be finalised must go through in order to meet the standards of release. Mastering in the hands of a professional engineer will achieve a wider, more detailed and controlled sound. Mastering ensures playback of your songs is correct across all devices.

Standard mastering is turned around within 5 working days and priority mastering is turned around within 1 working day. If you require your song back by a certain date, please let us know when sending your files and we will make sure your songs are back to you mastered before your deadline.

Payments must be made before work on your song begins. This ensures our engineers, take the necessary time and care required to return you the very best master. We do not believe in performing a sub par mastering service and this would be exactly what you would get from a service that doesn’t require payment for their services.

If work has not yet begun on your song, you can simply get in touch with us and replace the file.

If work has already begun on your song and you need to replace the mix for a new one. Two outcomes will occur.

If the mix is technically the same song and same mix but there is a change resulting in the song needing to be re-run. There is a charge of £10 to cover the time the engineer must take to re-run your song. This can be ordered by purchasing a master re-run from the drop down menu on the mastering page.

If the mix is completely different or a different song altogether, a new order for mastering will need to be placed. The reason for this is because mastering will need to be begun from scratch and the previous master scrapped.

Before sending your song always make sure that the mix is correct and the file you are sending is the correct file.

Mastering is one of if not the most important part of the engineering process of a song. Mastering can make or break a song. Too many artists fall at the final hurdle with poor quality mastering. A professional engineer will ensure your music plays back correctly across all devices. The skills and knowledge required to do so is an art.

DJ mix mastering is the mastering of a DJ mix or set that consist of multiple different songs at a range of different volumes. This service is ideal for DJ's who want their DJ sets to stand out from the crowd, with a polished and controlled DJ mix that is continuously audible.

Your mix can be uploaded safely and securely via our upload form here. Bypass any compression / limiting you may have on your master bus before printing your mix ready for mastering.

File Type : Wav / Flac / Aiff
Bitrate : 16–24–32 bit / 44,100khz - 96khz
Headroom : -3db / -6db

It is not ideal but yes we can work with a limited or clipping mix. The approach to mastering a limited mix is similar but requires a very precise approach in order to ensure the song is not over compressed or distorted.

If an mp3 is the highest quality file you have and you are unable to obtain a wav file, we can work with this. If a mp3 file is sent to us we will alwats request that you send the high quality wav. But if this is the only file you can obtain then we are able to work with an mp3 in a way that will still achieve great results.

Master (24bit 44,100kHz wav)
CD Master (16bit 44,100kHz wav)
MP3 (320kbs mp3)
Streaming Master (24bit 44,100kHz wav)
Instrumental (if supplied by client)
Acappella (if supplied by client)
Vinyl Master (ordered additionally)

Instrumentals and acapellas are included in the price for all mastering packages. This is of course optional but does require you sending the full mix, instrumental and acapella to us for mastering. All files must be sent together and mastered at the same time for this service to be included in the price. Mastering of the instrumental or acapella outside of the initial mastering of the full song will be charged as a master re-run priced at £10.

Yes, as standard with every master we will print a streaming version of your master which is optimised for playback on streaming platforms such as Spotify, Youtube, iTunes, Tidal etc. Streaming masters are included with all mastering packages.

Yes, if you require a version of your song that is optimised to be printed to vinyl, you can order vinyl mastering. Vinyl mastering also includes both 16 and 24 Bit 44,100kHz wav masters, as well as a 320kbs mp3 which are all optimised for digital release and not vinyl release.

Yes, if you would like to credit Audio Animals for the mastering of your music you can do so. Please credit Audio Animals Ltd and Nick Burchall as the mastering engineer. This is not required but is greatly appreciated.