Professional Audio Mastering
I help independent musicians and producers create a warm, unique and recognizable sound
Alessandro Ciuffetti
Audio Mastering Engineer (at Naïve Mastering)
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I Help You Create
a professional sound
I Work To Improve
your recording and mix
I Tell You How To
promote your music online
Services
Mastering
I carefully elaborate the sound of your song making it warm, unique and recognizable.
I use analog technologies of the highest quality, such as:
● Equalizers● Compressors● Saturators● Stereophonic Image Processors● Limiters
I optimize the sound so that your music can be heard well regardless of the type of playback equipment you use.
I work on your track so that it can meet the current recording market quality standards, bringing your sound to a professional level.
Pre-Mastering
1) Critical Evaluation:
Technical Analysis Of Quality
I listen carefully to your song and identify the weak points from a technical point of view and the small flaws or smudges that can be fixed.
In short, I check that there are no mixing errors between the various instruments or defects in the individual tracks that make up the mix.
2) Artistic Evaluation:
Analysis of musical choices in relation to your musical genre.
I carefully analyze the arrangement of your song and evaluate if the sound quality of the instruments you used reaches the quality standards required by your musical genre.
Post-Mastering
1) Get Maximum Visibility
I select and prepare for you a list of sites, platforms, services and applications where you can submit your piece of music.
The list includes:
● the best blogs and music sites
● digital stores,
● platforms that use playlists
● the social channels relevant to those who make music.
I indicate the specific steps and actions to be carried out in order to be present and visible on all these channels.
2) Find Ideal PartnersI identify the record labels that I consider most suitable for your musical genre, where to submit your songs so that they are taken into consideration.
I prepare a list of partners who may have a real interest in promoting your music, designed exclusively for you and your project.
I suggest you useful suppliers and services and I give you specific instructions and steps to prepare and send your master files.
Benefits
1) Warm and Unique Sound
Specifically:
● Improvement of mix tracks levels
● Normalization of frequency spectrum
● Dynamic compression and expansion
● Limiting of track peaks
● Fine-tuning of stereophonic image width
● Effects addition
● Elimination of small defects
● Background noise reduction
I use high-quality and precise equipment such as the SPL IRON valve compressor or the Maselec MEA-2 and Maag EQ4M equalizers, which are capable of filtering sound with extreme precision, enhancing its tone and increasing its three-dimensionality.
2) Best Sound
I take care of the details of your mix, by specifically optimizing:
● the cleanliness of the sound ● the overall quality of your song.
I intervene with precision on your mix variables by improving:
● the clarity of the sound ● its definition.
Furthermore I differentiate and create among the instruments by widening the stereophonic sound with specific eq and spatialization, improving in the end the three-dimensionality of your sound.
I make your sound sound better by utilizing analog compressors which allow to better mix different instruments inside your mix while keeping their original natural expression.
3) Professional Quality
I prepare a master that meets and exceeds recording labels quality standards.
I specifically devote my most attention to:
● Character ● Three-dimensionality● Timbric balance● Clarity● Depth● Warmth● Recognisability
I let you compete in quality with songs that are streamed online daily and get major accolades.
4) Technical Advice
Find out:
● if the components of your mix are well balanced
● which elements needs to be modified or substituted
● if some instrument has problems around a specific frequency range
● possible distortion
● digital artifacts and defects due to errors during the recording stage
5) Visibility
Get maximum visibility within the shortest possible time.
Discover the sites, platforms and the web services where to submit your tracks to achieve greater visibility.
Place your song inside exclusive playlists or on a social channel that satisfies the needs of who - like you - wants to promote his music online.
6) Contacts
Identify your best potential partners and ideal suppliers.
Discover which are the recording labels that could be most interested in your music style and where / how to promote your music.
Prepare and send a top quality song master to your future partners and clients.
Testimonials
About Me
Hi, my name is Alessandro Ciuffetti and I was born in Rimini on January 23, 1979.
Attracted by the intense nightlife of the clubs in the area, the encounter with music was natural and inevitable. In the early 2000s, with my band (Brevia, in which I was the drummer) I played all over Italy, gaining some success.
At that point, the desire to learn more about the world of professional audio prompted me to attend the sound engineer course at Francesco De Benedittis' Naïve Recording Studio, one of the most important recording studios in Italy.
I currently work at Naïve Mastering, the area of the Naïve Recording Studio that deals with audio mastering.