Washburn Mastering: The best digital audio mastering for the indie label, providing artists and producers the gateway to commercial release. Major label sound quality at indie label prices
Colossal Mastering's owners and founders are Dan Stout and Barbara Nashold. Dan serves as Chief Mastering Engineer while Barb fulfills Colossal's CEO and managerial duties. Colossal's team works hard to ensure that your expectations for a top-quality mastering experience are met...and, we hope, surpassed.
Dan Stout is a ten-year veteran of the recording industry with experience in multiple facets of the recording process. He's also a musician with a diverse musical background, both playing and listening. Prior to co-founding Colossal Mastering in 1997, Stout was a staff engineer at Chicago Recording Company and Universal Recording before that. It was at CRC that Dan began to focus on his engineering field of choice, mastering. His ever-expanding mastering clientele led him to the decision to create a world-class mastering company in Chicago. Colossal has since attracted clients from across the U.S. and beyond in every genre, as well as serving Chicago's booming recording community.
Ambient Digital offers extremely high quality, high resolution audio mastering services featuring the best of today's high end digital and analog equipment (Weiss, GML, Manley) - all at an affordable price.
John Vestman Mastering:
CD mastering is the amazing final step your music takes before it is manufactured. It takes exceptional talent behind the console to bring out all the potential of your mixes, and with over thirty years of musical and engineering experience, John Vestman and his engineering staff give you the edge that makes your CD sound its best.
• Our philosophy: Pay close attention to detail and give personal service
• You get sonic quality better or equal to facilities costing twice the price or more
• We specialize in the most advanced mastering format available today: Separation Mastering.
CD mastering (digital premastering), expert sound from over thirty years of engineering and musical experience. With top-of-the-line equipment and great attention to detail, a remarkable difference is made to the sound you get on your CD.