Mastering

Audio mastering for all release formats including digital distribution, streaming and vinyl.

Is your mix ready for mastering?

Let us provide feedback by requesting a pre-mastering evaluation. This is a great way to ensure your mix is ready for mastering.

Is your mix ready for mastering?

Let us provide feedback by requesting a pre-mastering evaluation. This is a great way to ensure your mix is ready for mastering.

Services

Audio Mastering, Digital Transfers, Format Conversions, Audio Restoration, Mixing

Services

Audio Mastering, Digital Transfers, Format Conversions, Audio Restoration, Mixing

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dB Mastering offers a streamlined mastering service taking you from mix to manufacture in little to no time, by getting it right the first time.

Get Started

dB Mastering offers a streamlined mastering service taking you from mix to manufacture in little to no time, by getting it right the first time.

Committed To Excellence

“I master each and every project as if it were my own whether it’s a major production or a first time indie release and I believe this is why the quality has remained constant over the past 30 years”– Kathy Naunton

Vinyl is back!

For us though it never really went anywhere.

We have been mastering music for vinyl since 1992 and have seen the wave of popularity rise and fall and rise again.

At dB Mastering we understand how to optimise your music for vinyl. We can anticipate what will make it easy for the cutting engineers by mastering your music specifically with vinyl in mind thereby avoiding distorted test pressings and wasted time and money while you go back and forth.

Please feel free to contact us to discuss the details of your project.
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“Kathy Naunton from dB Mastering is not only an exquisite person, but has the best mastering ears in Sydney. Having worked with us on our last 3 releases, Kathy has brought new life to already great-sounding recordings, and mastered for us the highest selling Australian jazz release of 2012, the ‘Best Jazz Album’ Aria-nominated album from 2011, and the ‘Best Jazz Album’ ARIA winner from 2013. The beautiful warmth and intricate nuance she brings to her work is matched only by her great depth of innate understanding of what any given recording needs from her expert sonic ‘polishing’. Not to mention how incredibly easy she is to work with. As long as Kathy’s still mastering, we won’t be going anywhere else in a hurry.”
Nick Begbie, The Idea Of North
“No matter how well you play, what great mikes you use, or who records your work – the result will always depend very heavily on how it’s mastered. That’s why I trust my music to dB Mastering, Kathy treats the sound with the same care and attention to detail as the musicians themselves.”
James Morrison (“In Good Company” – James Morrison and Don Burrows – ARIA nominated album 2016)
“Kathy Naunton is always my first port of call when it comes to mastering my releases. Not only does she have an amazing ear with sound, but what I dig about Kathy is that she genuinely loves what she does for a living. That love and attention to detail that she provides is so very important in producing a quality end product. It’s always a pleasure hanging out and working on a project with Kathy.”
Emma Pask (“Cosita Divina” – ARIA nominated album 2016)
“Mastering is a mysterious process, and not one I pretend to understand well, but as a producer who is often entrusted with the precious goods at the end of hundreds of hours of work, it is very reassuring to be in the safe hands of an expert with very good ears and a room full of good equipment. I have had the pleasure of working with Kathy many times on different projects for more than ten years now, and I’ve always been overwhelmed with the quality of the masters she delivers. She has a great way of dealing with people, and a great touch for sweetening your records before they are handed over to the audience.”
Anton Monsted, Executive Music Supervisor “Australia”
“I trust Kathy Naunton’s ear more than anyone else in the industry,
I always get the exact sound that I want plus more, I wouldn’t go anywhere else for mastering. And I love you!”
Sean Carey, Producer (ex Thirsty Merc)
“I never go past the shine and wonderful master-after touches that Kathy puts into all my music deliveries……  whether it be music for production music libraries, scores to television series or features. I always book into dB Mastering for all my final tweaking — and it makes such a difference.  And best of all, Kathy is a pleasure to work with, and I have a solid 15 year history with them to prove it !”
Art Phillips, Composer and President of The Australian Guild of Screen Composers
“Having worked with dB Mastering since it’s inception with the Volition label, I find a high level of skill and expertise that I can rely on – I return and always get the goods.
What I look for and get from Kathy at dB Mastering, is a quality finish for a quality album and over 15 years of consistency counts for a lot in my books.
On a personal level, it also pleases me greatly that the idea of establishing a superior mastering facility in Australia with her late great dB partner, Robert Racic, when the first Volition releases were coming through, is a reality that lives on. Respect!”
Andrew Penhallow, Resolution Music
“While we have swapped and changed studios and producers, Kathy has been our single constant pillar in the recording process.  We have used dB Mastering since the inception of our band and intend to continue doing so. Kathy’s quality of work and professionalism are second to none. The translation of the song from studio to mastered version is always night & day. She enables us to clearly hear everything that is going on in the mix, ultimately giving a warm, fully rounded, radio quality song.”
The Iron Horses