Tag: Audio mastering

Adam Dempsey celebrates five years this week at Deluxe Mastering… and it coincides with ongoing momentum for vinyl releases being as strong as ever, with at least six projects in as many weeks all destined for vinyl including: Heirs, Plastic Palace Alice, Trappist Afterland, The Velocettes, Raoul McLay, and Pre Unit.

Vinyl LP & EP releases are obviously suiting a dedicated market and for promo purposes.

How to optimize results for your vinyl release and minimize any technical headaches/delays?

Basically for a little extra outlay at a mastering session for CD or digital release you can also leave with full res 24 bit Side A & B files, tweaked as needed (a separate pass), suitable for sending to lacquer cutting – sonically this can be much better than merely sending off a CD or 16 bit files and hoping for the best! See our vinyl page for more info.

Of course we can also give you 24 bit full res CD mastered files – a great insurance for future formats and for current FLAC (lossless) options (Bandcamp, etc).

Meanwhile Jack’s been working on the first of several upcoming podcasts with audio engineer Sam Hannan and producer Steve James – more to come!

We’re proud to support independent radio and Melbourne’s thriving community radio scene, which has long played a vital role in supporting independent music.

Subscribe as an artist or band to Melbourne’s Triple R 102.7 FM during Radiothon and go into the running to win audio mastering with Adam Dempsey for an EP or single…

Following decades of experience in audio mastering, we’re proud to mark five years of operation for the Deluxe Mastering facility here in Brunswick.

It’s been a full gamut of projects: from spoken word to contemporary jazz, hip-hop to country, dance music to classical, folk to rock, and for CD, online and vinyl. We aim to bring many more years of service-focused, no-compromise mastering and we thank our valued clients – the goosebump makers – past, present and future, for having us play a final role in their releases.

– Tony “Jack the Bear’ Mantz, Adam Dempsey, Byron Scullin & Finn Keane.

An integral part of Melbourne’s music scene street press, Beat Magazine staff scored Single of the Week to Dead Parties‘ debut single ‘In Dreams of Decadence’ – engineered by the band’s Etienne Mamo, mixed by Michael Badger (The Demon Parade) and mastered by Adam Dempsey.

“This is easily the best thing we’ve listened to yet. Really, really f**ing nice.” Read more here.

Check out the latest videos from some of our clients: Knights On Standby, Heirs, Human Life, and The Orbweavers

‘Treat Me Bad’ by Knights On Standby, mastered by Jack the Bear:

Promo video for the album ‘Fowl’ from industrial instrumental band Heirs, engineered by Neil Thomason at Headgap Studios, Preston (Melbourne) and mastered by Adam Dempsey for CD and 12 inch vinyl:

‘Wherever We Are’ by Human Life, mastered by Jack the Bear:

‘Japanese Mountains’ by The Orbweavers, Mastered by Adam Dempsey:

On behalf of all of us at Deluxe Mastering, we wish you a happy, healthy and musically prosperous new year. We look forward to serving you again in 2011.

Latest projects:

Tony “Jack the Bear” Mantz has been working on releases for Jungle Traffic, Trond Werner Hansen, Jessica Mauboy, Danny T, Tommy Trash, Mason Rack, Amy Meredith, Red Squad, Kids of 88, Corpus, Charlie Lim and Brothers.

Self-described as “Joni Mitchell meets James Brown in Bob Marley’s pumpkin patch via the Muppets!” Mal Webb and Penelope Swayles of Totally Gourdgeous have finished mixing and mastering their new album with Adam Dempsey.

Also completed with Adam are debut upcoming releases from Brea Acton (expertly engineered by Dave Manton), The Domenic Bello Trio, Pro Rata, The Fallen Gentry, Beth Knights, 2010’s compilation from NMIT produced by Greg Arnold, new album for the Daniel Gassin Sextet (mixed by Myles Mumford), and a single for Heidi Elva as part of an Italian compilation.

Deluxe Mastering also welcomed Finn Keane to the team, who’s been wrapping up releases for The Noks (NZ).

What were your overall favourite releases of 2010…?