Mixing and mastering is two distinct methods of getting your music ready for burning to audio compact disc, DVD or for radio readiness.

Recording and Mixing
Typical recording applications like sequencers are essentially that of recorders dealing with individual or mixed audio material (like a drumkit for example), and mixing also as part of the mixdown stage (before your multi-track project gets compressed into one audio file and 'bounced' to hard disk)

The two goes hand in hand and very special attention is given to the type signal being fed into the recorder and being mixed with other audio signals. Therefore we aim to provide you with the highest possible sampling frequency and rate of any given audio signal.

All bounced audio tracks of a project has to seamlessly blend into the overall mix to give clarity, consistency, loudness, balance in the frequency spectrum, panoramic width with a sonic imprint leaving you, the listener with a sense of completeness and fullness.

The mix has to be dimensional with depth, width and volume all equally balanced to give you a non-flat listening experience

Different projects require different approaches to mixing. Here are a few examples:

• Radio advertisements
• Television advertisements
• Dance music productions
• Album productions

Additional mixing may be done by a second engineer, if required.

Mastering
The last stage before the audio track or tracks are burned to a CD-ROM. This is usually done by an external audio engineer who specialises in mastering for bigger projects like commercial releases and alike.

It involves getting the track ready and applying final effects and filters for making the track ready for radio, or for an entire album production.

For typical commercial applications like multimedia, DVD Productions and even music production is done inhouse by the engineer working on the project is adequate, but depends on the application or project.

Single tracks may be mastered, or in the case of an album production all tracks are mastered to give an overall flow from one track to another.

In the case of Boabab's Code 14, an additional mixing and mastering engineer was contracted to provuide with a professional final touch of the final project