Binary Feedback - Digital Audio

26/11/2024

Very happy to have been involved doing the mastering on this class international hip-hop project. Proper 90s style production, great team, and a diverse selection of beats and rhymes - including a sweet romantic jam like this.

Taken from the album "HIGHRIZE JAMZ" on Empty Hand Records. OUT NOW everywhere.Vinyl available exclusively at www.emptyhandrecords.bandcamp.comWordsworth has...

04/10/2024

Highly recommended jungle 4 tracker from FFF. My personal faves are the B side tracks, intense darkside rave bangers. Test-press totally went *off* at the recent Headfuk party :)

16/08/2024

Never underestimate the power of the humble delay in mixing / production. Not 'echoing with feedback' send and return, just literally shifting a track in time very small amounts can make a lot of difference.
In this case, the fundamental thud layer of a kick was shifted away from the dryer attack portion, it sounded like an EQ - but without any EQ. All of a sudden the attack and the sustain portions of the kick were distinct from one another and yet felt more like a cohesive whole. The depth of the fundamental was revealed and sounded huge. I could have added a 5dB low shelf to that thump, taking up loads of headroom - and it still wouldn't have done what this simple delay has done.
Same with shifting basslines relative to kicks, shifting hats and snares to slightly influence feel of groove and finding a better pocket for each sound to live. Things can feel more lively and natural when peaks are not all sitting directly on top of each other. Also, 'background' elements can sound slightly deeper in the picture when offset fractions.
(... actually I was a little excited when I took the example photo 😃 - I only really moved the thud 8ms in this mix. )

13/08/2024

😎 - really appreciate this lovely comment from FFF - Triple Times F. Always a pleasure.

07/08/2024

awww, shucks 💜

01/08/2024

Great to see this solid release hitting the DJ Mag staff picks this month, top work YM023! Would like to think that our **chunky AF** mastering helped it along the way :)

29/07/2024

Really proud to have worked on mastering this amazing album for The state51 Conspiracy and Senyawa. Really beautiful presentation as well, as usual for State 51 projects. Thanks so much for the copy! It's gorgeous.

25/06/2024

Thanks so much to Cifks Group for sending through this elegant looking cassette package. Really cool and deep blend of electronics and post-rock / ambient.
All the best with the release!

13/06/2024

31/05/2024

This project was an absolute joy. Emika wanted a vivid, dreamlike, holographic sound quality - which made me think carefully about my whole mastering approach. I selected tools specifically for that kind of presentation. I'm really pleased with how it turned out - can't wait to hear the final pressing of the LP.

My new album HAZE. Enjoy listening. Out now on all platforms.

01/03/2024

Really happy to have been involved mastering this amazing and unique project. Powerful and spiritual experimental noise band from Indonesia.

announce new album, Vajranala - out on 03.05.24 via state51 Records

Vajranala is an exercise in understanding the root of the power (knowledge) discussed in their 2021 release Alkisah. When it comes to ‘power’, says Senyawa vocalist Rully Shabara, “people will normally think of someone political, but I don’t think that’s the case. The origin of power goes deeper than that.” It’s the shamans, he says, who were the first possessors of power: “If you’re in a village, if you’re considered to have the knowledge to connect people with the realm of the gods, then you will have power before the leader. It’s very fundamental to explore this.”

Single and video for ‘Vajranala’ playing on all services now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgStWh8VPVs

20/02/2024

Thrilled to have worked with da Googie (solo project of Deb Googe; of My Bloody Valentine / Thurston Moore) and Too Many Things (Marion Andrau and Jem Doulton) on this wonderful split 12" release. And subsequently with da Googie again for their Valentines Day* special 'Kiss Me You Fool'. 🩷💙
(*yes, I know I'm not prompt with my post! a kiss is not just 'for Christmas' ya-kno'...)