Mastering & final delivery

When mastering helps

After mixing, songs often lack a shared glue: each track sounds fine alone but levels and bass weight drift side by side. Mastering evens that without remaking the mix. Typical use: singles before upload, EPs with one colour, live recordings from band recording, and music beds that must sit under speech from podcast post-production.

If the mix still has obvious problems (harsh sibilance, masked vocals, unruly subs), fix the mix first — mastering cannot reliably rescue that.

Our mastering room

Since 2019 we have run 3 rooms on Siebensterngasse; the mastering desk is acoustically separate from the tracking control room. Full-range monitors, controlled decay and regular reference material keep judgments honest.

You may attend the proof listen — U3 Neubaugasse station, Siebensterngasse exit — about three minutes on foot to Siebensterngasse 19. Bus line 13A stops at Neubaugasse / Burggasse (around five minutes on foot).. Many clients work fully remote; we deliver via secure links and reply within 2 business days on email.

Loudness and platforms

Streaming services normalize differently. We master to LUFS and true-peak targets that fit your genre — pop and hip-hop can be louder than jazz if you want that. Master formats & streaming delivery lists common export profiles.

• Integrated LUFS and max true peak noted per project
• No forced brickwall mastering without your OK
• Vinyl-oriented masters with HF rolloff and bass mono prep on request

Album sequence and metadata

EP and album packages include pauses, fades and opener impact. Crossfades are possible when you ask for them; we often prefer clean edits when energy differs between songs.

You enter ISRC, UPC and credits at the distributor; we name files to your pattern (e.g. 01_Title_Master.wav). Rights notes: disclaimer.

Revisions and boundaries

2 rounds cover mastering tweaks: air, sibilance, sequence, moderate loudness changes. If the mix bus was already limited or the mix must be redone, we pause and point to mixing — that avoids paying twice.

Extra versions (radio edit, instrumental, clean lyrics) are not automatic; we quote them upfront or bill the hourly model.

Formats and fees

Default delivery: 24-bit WAV at 44.1 or 48 kHz depending on channel. 96 kHz hi-res on request. MP3 or AAC only as listening copies, not as the master.

Net single reference: €73.33. 30% deposit, balance before final master release.

With mix and post

Many projects stay in-house: record, mixing, mastering — one continuity of references. External mixers send mixdowns too; we ask about bus processing to avoid double compression.

Podcast music or intros from post are mastered separately when they release as standalone tracks. Spoken episodes themselves are edited in podcast post-production, not in the mastering fee.

Booking and privacy

Start via contact with track count, genre and deadline. We confirm the fixed fee in writing. Mugwetkyro GmbH processes audio only for the project; details in the privacy policy.

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QC before release

Before the final export we listen on headphones and main monitors, compare against genre references and verify filenames and sample rate. That catches upload mistakes at the aggregator or when sending files to pressing.

If you target multiple media (streaming plus download shop plus vinyl), say so in the brief — we can prepare variant-specific exports without diluting the creative mastering choices.

Included

• Mastering on neutral monitors in Vienna
• Spectrum and level check before processing
• 2 revision rounds on the master
• 24-bit WAV export for release
• Noted target LUFS and true peak
• 24-month archive
• Replies within 2 business days