Mastering is the last set of ears on your record before the world hears it. If you're looking for a mastering engineer in Melbourne, what matters is transparency, judgement, and delivery you can trust — not a mystery process behind a closed door.
I master for bands, solo artists, and producers who want their music to translate everywhere it plays: streaming, CD, vinyl, and sync.
A good master doesn't reinvent your mix — it resolves it. My approach is corrective and transparent: tonal balance, dynamics, and loudness decisions that make the track hold up across different playback systems without crushing the life out of it.
Most projects that come to me need some combination of the following:
Streaming platforms normalise playback loudness — Spotify to -14 LUFS, Apple Music to -16 — which changes what a smart master looks like. Chasing maximum level buys nothing on normalised platforms; what matters is density and impact that suit the song, with a true-peak ceiling that survives lossy encoding.
I've written a full breakdown of how to master for Spotify and what LUFS actually means, and my free LUFS & Loudness Standards lookup covers the delivery specs for every major platform.
I deliver masters for any format you need — high-resolution files for streaming and digital distribution, CD with DDP files ready for manufacture, and vinyl-specific pre-masters with the EQ and level decisions cutting requires.
If you're not sure what your release needs, that's a normal place to be. Tell me where the music is going and I'll tell you what to order — you won't pay for formats you don't need.
This service is a good fit if you are:
That last point matters. If your mix isn't ready, I'll tell you — mastering a mix that's fighting itself wastes your money, and I'd rather help you fix the real problem.
I'm a producer, mixing and mastering engineer with 20 years across music and film — credits on records by Dead Letter Circus, Twelve Foot Ninja and I Am Giant, and film sound work recognised nationally and internationally. I've also spent a decade teaching audio production, which means I can explain every decision I make on your master in plain language.
I work from Melbourne, in person or remotely with artists anywhere in the world.
Send through your mix — or a link to a rough bounce — and tell me where the release is headed. I'll come back with what it needs and where to go from there.
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