Free Test Master
The best way we can show you how good our Mastering service is would be to master a track for you free of charge, so you can hear our level of quality over your own material, without spending any money.
We are the first Custom Mastering service who will master a COMPLETE track for you 100% free of charge, unlike others who do a snippet of one of your tracks to try to get you to go back and buy the complete mastered track; we probably are still the only ones who do this.
In order to focus only on those of you who are seriously shopping around for a mastering service, we have the following criteria that you must meet to qualify for a Free Test Master:
- This free mastering offer is exclusive only to Rap/Hip-Hop/R&B Artists.
- Original Songs only - that means no remixes, no instrumentals, no verses over industry beats (you rapping over Mobb Deep's Quiet Storm instrumental, for example). We are here to serve artists and labels who put out original material, who are seriously looking to master a project.
- Clean Mixdowns ready for mastering, please - don't send mixes that are already "mastered", expecting us to fix problems caused by you pushing up the levels and sucking the life out of your mix.
- No MP3s - for best results, submit your highest-quality mixdown in .wav or .aiff files (24-bit/96kHz for example).
- If your track has an obvious MP3-ish quality to it, it will be ignored (saving an .mp3 to .wav doesn't fool us in 99.9% of the time).
- Fill out all of the fields in the form at the bottom of this page.
There are two ways you can submit your song for a Free Test Master:
Online Delivery
Most email services have a limit as to the size of a file you can send in an attachment, so use a free file delivery service such as yousendit, sendspace or megaupload. We prefer that you "shrink" the file down and recommend you use Monkey's Audio (www.monkeysaudio.com) to compress the file before sending it, because it is a lossless compression program unlike other .zip or .rar programs (also free, by the way). Make sure that the name of the file matches what you enter in the form below.
Mail Delivery
We prefer you send your track through the web because it cuts down on material & packaging costs as well as time, but if you have to send it through the mail, we ask that you include $10 with your track to cover media, packaging and postage costs. If you decide to have us master your project in the future, we will give you a $10 credit. You still need to fill out the form below. You may send your track to the following address:
Redsecta Mastering
Attn: Test Master
P.O. Box 86443
Los Angeles, CA 90086
Unsolicited Test Masters without the $10 materials/packaging/postage fee and no contact information other than a return address will be discarded.
*Due to the amount of work we have on our plate at any given time, the Free Test Master offer can be suspended during busy periods, we will let you know when to expect your free master when you submit your request.
Redsecta Mixing & Mastering is a freelance Mixing and Mastering service who caters only to hip hop clientele.* While you may be accustomed to seeing Mastering services who try to earn your business by giving you a long gear list and showing you pictures of a room filled with expensive furniture and lava lamps, we try to earn your business by showing you what we can do with your music, for free. Gear list? We'll keep it short: Neve, Universal Audio, Digidesign, Cranesong Converters, an engineer who's been working with rap projects since '91 & a treated room, but most importantly, and what should matter to you if you take advantage of the free test master offer: Play your free mastered track next to anything you have that is a pro-quality, commercial release, and listen to what your ears tell you.
*(once in a while, we'll do an R&B project here and there, for clients who want that low end they like from hip hop releases, so if you have an R&B project, hit us up, we don't hate everything other than hip hop, we stick with rap projects mostly because it's what we know, and we'll know right away what needs to be done with it).
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