I've seen this site advertising called http://www.emasters.co.uk thinking about trying has anybody used it? or how good they are?

Is anyone familiar with Massive Mastering - John Scrimp or the The Mastering House, Inc. Tom Volicelli?

thanks

I have been recording music digitally since 1997. I can come with a pretty good finished product. I play rock and also write other pop ballads etc.

I amwriting to sell these songs. I master myself which sounds decent but not like they could sound. Is it worth iot for me to spend a few hundred on mastering?

I was wondering what techniques people might have to opening up a track that has been poorly mixed (everything is dead center)and has no stereo image)during the mastering process. I do have the vocal tracks because i recorded them myself so any techniques for mixing vocals to create a wide stereo image of the vocals would be helpful.

Thank you for your time,
JP

This is my first post, so go easy on me.

First off, I realize now after reading the 1st five pages of the mastering forum that I am nowhere (and won't soon be) near a proper mastering setup and for that matter I am questioning the foundation with which I have built this studio up to be (another thread), but all this is not the point.

How do you usually start off, are you they type that likes to listen to the song a whole bunch of times before you go at it, or are you much wilder and attack the song right away... also what do you think you can do to improve your own tactics?

Besides the albums mentioned on Bob Katz's site (http://www.digido.com) what are some really well done or really BADLY done albums that people are listening to or staying away from for the total content including mastering? I know for example that the Red Hot Chili Peppers album "Californication" is probably the loudest CD ever done.

ok first id like to say I’m not looking for full 100 percent mastering but rather acceptable project mastering to use for demo work/song writing I’m really getting irritated at the inconsistency and overly compressed audio of today id like my levels as hot as they were in the early 90s where the mastering volume "by volume here I mean actually loudness as aposed to apparent loudness" was cut of

I'm recording and co-producing a rock/jazz/latin project- 13 songs in all, under 50 minutes. We are all excited about it as the songs are A-1 and we are getting a real good sound. Currently we are mixing, should be done sometime in late September, early October at the latest

Hello once again,