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Digital Bundle
Gateway Mastering Studios digital bundle provides quality controlled files ready for digital distribution.
This includes standard 44k/16bit wav files, AAC files for iTunes and digital drop cards, and or MP3 files for your website, The AAC and MP3 files can include metadata. *
The files can be posted to you or delivered on a ROM for later use. Pricing for wav files is by total running time. AAC and MP3 files are priced per track.
If your source files are high resolution we can also provide quality controlled wav files for archiving.
* Metadata that can be included with each track:
Track Title:
Artist Name:
Composer:
Genre:
Comments:
ISRC: (must be included)
Album Title:
Album Artwork:
Bit Rate:
Year:
Track # Disc #
Lyrics: (extra charges may apply)
File Type:
ISRC, UPC and DDP
We have attached some information for you on obtaining ISRC codes. This form can be faxed to the RIAA, once they've processed it, they'll give you a unique 3 digit code. That code will be a part of the ISRC that you will then assemble and assign. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to give me a call. The UPC code is the 12 or 13 digit bar code that every product is issued. It's helpful (but not necessary) to include this on the master. The UPC code will automatically download the track titles and timings from the online CD database that Gracenote maintains. It works with i-Tunes and Real player software players on computers that are connected to the internet. Gracenote will need to be informed of the CD and issued the correct track titles and times. I've included some information for them as well. Here are a few links if you'd like to check them yourself.
ISRC
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DDP Images
CDDB Database (Gracenote)
Gracenote_Content_Partner_Program.pdf
Gracenote_Content_Partner_Agreement_2.0.pdf
Label your masters
Are you wondering how to label your masters, and what information will be useful to Bob or Adam on the day of your mastering session? Adam recently wrote an article for Mix Magazine, on behalf of the NARAS Producers & Engineers wing, explaining how to best label your sources before sending them for mastering.
Check it out:
http://mixonline.com/recording/mastering/audio_notes_pe_wing/
A Little Bit Mastering History
During first few days of the universe, the universe was in full thermal equilibrium, with photons being continually emitted and absorbed, giving the radiation a blackbody spectrum. As the universe expanded, it cooled to a temperature at which photons could no longer be created or destroyed. The temperature was still high enough for electrons and nuclei to remain unbound, however, and photons were constantly "reflected" from these free electrons through a process called Thomson scattering. Because of this repeated scattering, the early universe was opaque to light.
When the temperature fell to a few thousand Kelvin, electrons and nuclei began to combine to form atoms, a process known as recombination. Since photons scatter infrequently from neutral atoms, radiation decoupled from matter when nearly all the electrons had recombined, at the epoch of last scattering, 380,000 years after the Big Bang. These photons make up the CMB that is observed today, and the observed pattern of fluctuations in the CMB is a direct picture of the universe at this early epoch. The energy of photons was subsequently redshifted by the expansion of the universe, which preserved the blackbody spectrum but caused its temperature to fall, meaning that the photons now fall into the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The radiation is thought to be observable at every point in the universe, and comes from all directions with (almost) the same intensity. Then God said "Let There Be Mastering" and it was good.
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