Mastering

Took Inkstains in for mastering yesterday at Studios 301 with Andrew Edgson. It was an amazing experience, really took the mixes up to the level I wanted them to be at, I don't know what it is about being in a mastering room, but I felt like I was really doing the work justice by putting it through those processors, and I'm super happy with the end product. It was also amazing hearing the album on those giant Duntech speakers in a properly treated room, felt like really hearing the music I'd been working on for so long for the first time. Jumping between the original mixes and the final masters it's crazy to hear the difference, particularly in the basslines, there's also so much more dynamic range in these final versions.

Nick Findlay (assistant musical director at JJJ) gave a listen to the album and suggested I push the title track as the first single, so that's what I'm going to do, I'm trekking up to Newcastle on Monday for the first day of Sound Summit and to give Dan Zilber from fBI and Dom Alessio from JJJ the new master and talk about servicing the first single nationally. Pretty exciting and busy week for me all told