Studio B Mastering

02/23/2022

no words.

R.I.P. Chris

01/16/2021

It's been way too many years since I've done weekly updates on mastering sessions going on here! I'm going to try to start them back up but I can't promise I'll have time every week.

This week I mastered albums for Totally Slow (Greensboro, NC/Refresh Records), The Probables (Jamestown, NY) and The Seafloor Cinema (Sacramento, CA). I also put the finishing touches on full lengths for Southern Culture on the Skids
(Chapel Hill, NC) as well as Michael Orlando.

There were also EPs for PHNTMS (Philadelphia, PA) and Distractions (Columbia, SC).

In between all of these projects there were singles for Status Lost (Raleigh, NC), Fil Thorpe (Los Angeles, CA) and Elijah Oyelade (Nigeria) as well as vinyl parts for BIG Something (Burlington, NC) and 8 Ball Aitken (Australia).

And then of course in addition to the audio work I also make time for accounting and building maintenance. Oh, and somehow I still manage to run 40+ miles a week. I think you can see why I don't have time to post very often!

I hope everyone's year is off to a decent start, let's hang in there and maybe we'll be able to have some live shows again by Fall.

Keep Calm and Rock On

Dave Harris
Founder, Studio B Mastering

11/24/2020

WooHoo! Congratulations, very well deserved!

It is such an honor to be recognized by the Recording Academy with a Grammy Nomination alongside such a talented slate of our peers! So much gratitude.

Yep Roc Records Come Hear North Carolina

06/23/2020

One of my favorite projects that I had the privilege of working on lately. Made by some of my favorite people. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your magic. Trust me, this one is going to age very well. ❤️

06/19/2020

Honestly, I’m not 100% certain that I know what mastering is, but somehow here I am making some kind of living at it. Thanks for the kind words, it’s always a blast working on your records!

Today we're giving it up for Dave Harris at Studio B Mastering for the fantastic job he did mastering Itchy Soul. "What is mastering?" you say? Great question. Nobody knows, even musicians and mastering engineers don't know. Just kidding... it's the final step in making an album. After the mix is finished, it gets bounced to a stereo file. Then the mastering engineer does his/her magic to help balance sonic elements of the mix (such as volume, dynamics, compression, and EQ) and ensure that playback will sound good over a variety of speakers... consider that this music needs to sound great on crappy phone speakers, earbuds, high end headphones, huge speaker systems with subwoofers, etc.

We worked with Dave for the first time on Live in Asheville and we loved what he did, so he was an easy choice for this record. Dave helped give the individual instruments and parts their own space to live in, and somehow simultaneously made the whole thing sound more cohesive and squished together in the best possible way. It's exactly what we wanted. We loved the master as soon as we got it back from him and we highly recommend him to other bands.

www.studiobmastering.com

All week long we're contributing 100% of album sales from our to Equal Justice Initiative, so you can head to www.thegetrightband.com/shop to hear Dave's awesome mastering job and support a very important cause.

06/02/2020