Sound Affair Mastering
Precision Mastering for Vinyl, Digital, Streaming & CD
Your Music Deserves the Best Mastering
Ron Leeper of Sound Affair Mastering has been recording, mixing, and mastering for over 40 years. You’ve heard his work, even if you don’t know it. He has had the pleasure of working for some of the top record companies, artists, and studios in the country, as well as bands and artists who are just getting started. His expertise in mastering is informed by his skill and experience as a recording and mixing engineer. This makes him an invaluable partner in mastering your album. He approaches every project with the highest level of creativity, artistry, focus, professionalism and personal service.
Audio Restoration & Preservation
We can transfer and restore all audio from 78 and LP transcription disks, analog tape, and digital tape formats.
Additional services include:
- Acetate disk repair
- Reel-to-real analog tape editing
- Audiotape splice repair and replacement
- Audio cassette cartridge replacement and repair
Audio restoration is the process of improving the sound quality of a recording. We use EQ, phase optimization, clip restoration, channel and level re-balancing, noise removal, and other techniques. Generally, audio restoration is done for CD mastering, forensic purposes, or even personal reasons. The intended use will determine the extent and method of the restoration.
Audio preservation is the transfer of recordings from media that deteriorates over time (usually disks and tape) into a digital format. After transfer, you may also want to consider having the audio restored to improve the sound quality.
Archival and Audio Re-Recording
This is different process from audio restoration. It's the faithful re-recording of audio onto a new medium for the purpose of preserving the audio for the future. Efforts are sometimes made to extend the life of the source medium containing the original audio, but the main purpose is to preserve the audio itself by careful re-recording.
No matter what the recording medium - magnetic tape, optical disc (i.e., audio CD), mechanical disk (i.e., phonograph record) - all recording media deteriorate over time. If the original medium has deteriorated extensively and the audio cannot be adequately restored, then re-recording is a good option to archive the audio.
