Tag: Online mastering

Coverage of the ongoing Loudness Wars and its potential for peacetime makes it into our national paper The Australian, featuring comment from Deluxe Mastering’s Adam Dempsey.

Read on: “Studios turning rock’n’roll into raucous noise pollution” by Andrew Harris.

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.

We’ve been been flat out and loving it, with Tony “Jack the Bear” Mantz mastering new releases for Matt Van Schie, Matt Sonic, UK producers Nick Warren (Way Out West), Jam Xpress, Hedflux and James Harcourt, as well as new projects for Art vs Science, Chad Mason (Wagons) and new remixes for Jessica Mauboy and Justice Crew. Filming has also been done for a new iPhone app for Mark Opitz.

Releases mastered by Adam Dempsey include Crooked Saint (Tim Wheatley, ex-Rushcutter, mixed by Michael Badger of The Demon Parade), new singles for Luminouz, Kate Vigo (mixed by Jan Skubiszewski), The Fearless Vampire Killers (recorded by Michael Badger at Soundpark studios and mixed by Lars Stalfors in LA), albums for Adam Simmons‘ jazz trio Origami (mixed by Myles Mumford), an album of “voodoo swamp-funk” for Adam Rudegeair, the debut album for James Parry (Tas), and a new full band album for Tracy McNeil (of Fireside Bellows with Jordie Lane) “Fire From Burning”, mixed by Roger Bergodaz.

You can also hear Adam as part of a 3RRR radio documentary on loudness, produced and presented by Ross Richardson. Check out the podcast from the Max Headroom program here.

Releases completed by Finn Keane include Little John (for a video clip), Roller One (7 inch) , The Whitegoods, and Jaguar Spring.

While we launched the new website, including an online mastering service and this very blog to help spread the word of artists’ releases (thanks for visiting!), Tony “Jack the Bear” Mantz has been working on releases and re-mixes for Groove Armada, Dead Letter Circus, Itch-E & Scratch-E, Charles Jenkins & The Zhivagos, Dead City Ruins, Tommy Trash & Tom Piper, The Greatest Nothing (NZ), Kid Kenobi, Ashton Shuffle, US producer Burufunk, President Roots, She’s The Driver, the debut for Fuzz Phantoms (new side project Kiss Chasey’s frontman Darren Cordeux), US artist Donis, and a new tyDi remix for US producer BT.

Adam Dempsey’s recent projects include New York composer Doug Gibson, Georgia Fields’ latest single, new releases from Silo String Quartet, Yeo Choong (out thru Other Tongues), The Death Rattles, and Melbourne Guitar Quartet, while vinyl lives on with 7-inch singles for Oliver Mann, The Dukes of Deliciousness and The Sand Pebbles.

Been a crazy time here of late mastering CDs, online and vinyl releases for these artists and we thank them very much for choosing to work with me…..Itch-E & Scratch-E, The Immigrant EP (Jono Fernandez re-mix and dub being especially tasty), tyDi, Kid Kenobi’s remix for Groove Armada, Kite Club, Dead City Ruins, Charles Jenkins & The Zhivagos, Fuzz Phantoms….a new side project for Darren Cordeux’s Kiss Chasey, She’s The Driver and Blind Munkee.