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Crystal Mastering

About Me


Whether your recording on a million dollar SSL console, or creating killer beats on your MPC, our mastering engineers can offer a fresh perspective on your music and bring it to it's fullest, sonic potential.
Welcome to Crystal Mastering, home to Melbourne's most experienced mastering team.

At Crystal Mastering, we pride ourselves on offering a mastering service that is of international standards. Our commitment to quality, consistency and personal service has secured a large and loyal following of artists and recording engineers from all styles of music production. We master for major labels as well as the growing legion of home recording artists. Our engineers strive to make each and every album they work on sound as good as possible. Regardless of where it was recorded, or how much money was spent on the production, each session is under taken with a dedication to achieve only the best possible sounding master.
With experience dating to cassette & vinyl mastering in the 1980s, our engineers have mastered thousands of recordings, with many claiming successful release all over the world, as well as Gold & multi-Platinum ARIA recognition. Following nearly two decades of work with the finest artists, our engineers can bring a wealth of mastering experience to your music, that is unrivaled in Melbourne.
As well as this experience, Crystal Mastering also offers you the best mastering equipment available. Glorious, analogue mastering equipment, coupled with precision, digital outboard gear. This is further complemented by comfortable, professionally designed, acoustic mastering suites, ideal for critical listening.
Enjoy the slide-shows on the left which show a small selection of albums we've mastered from various artists, as well as some studio pics. Also, please visit some of Crystal's happy campers below;

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/29/2006
Band Website: crystalmastering.com.au
Band Members: Joseph Carra : Mastering engineer John Ruberto : Mastering engineer David Nelson : Mastering engineer
Influences:

Below: "Size of the Soul" -Muph & Plutonic. Mastered at Crystal Mastering

Below: The Potbelleez. "Don't Hold Back". Mastered at Crystal Mastering

Below: Electric Mary, "One in a milion": Mastered at Crystal Mastering

Sounds Like: Crystal Mastering has been credited with work for the following artists;

28 Days, 67 Special, 750 Rebels, 1200 Techniques, ABC Music, Abandon All Hope, After the Fall, Airway Lanes, Alarum, Alberts Music, Alchemist, Alex Burns, All India Radio, Andy Sorrenson, Antiskeptic, Art of Fighting, Asleep in the Park, B2 (Russia), Beasts of Bourbon, Behind Crimson Eyes, Belle Roscoe, BiasB, Bison, Black Market Music, Bliss N Eso, Blue Line Medic, Bodyjar, Brad Strut, Brain Dead Lovers, Brian Fraser, Captain G (Japan), Christine Anu, Collards, Greens & Gravy, Conway Savage (The Bad Seeds), Cordrazine, Cordelle, Crackpot, Craig Obey, Crazy Bald Heads, Crossroads Christian Fellowship, Daddy Cool, Dallas Crane, Dandelion Wine, Dave Steel, David Franj, Dawn Raid (New Zealand), Days End, Describe Eliza, De Jah Groove, DJ Bonez, DJ Krusty, DJ Peril, DJ Ransom, Day Of Contempt, Doug De Vries, Down To Size, Dreadnaught, Eddy Current, Eddie Would Go, Electric Mary, Electro Funk Lovers, Elite Fleet, Embodiment, Epicure, Even, Falloe, Fast Crew (New Zealand), Fez Perez, Flow Dynamics, Frankenbok, Freestate, From The Inside, Firebox Music (Germany), Gameover, Ganga Giri, Geoff Achison, Good and Evil, Music (Japan), Groove Terminator, Ground Components, Heads of State, Hercules In New York, Hook and Sling, Horsell Common, I Killed the Prom Queen, Icecream Hands, Israel Jack Howard (Hunters & Collectors), Jeff Sheppard, Johnny Chester, Jon Stevens (Noise Works), Joth Hunt, Jungle Fever, Just Say Go, Justice and Chaos, J-Wess, Kate Alexa, Kate Burke & Ruth Hazelton, Kate Ceberano, Kind of Pluto, Kyle, La Voce Della Luna, Labjacd, Lano & Woodley, Late for Breakfast, Lisa Miller, Lucey Thorne, Mach Pelican, Mad Dolly, Madison Avenue, Magic Dirt, Marching orders, Mark Seymour, MF Grimm, Mel-C, Mere, Theory, Mindfield, Mindsnare, Mr Timothy, Muph & Plutonic, Mushroom Giants, Music Deli- ABC, Nick Charles, Nocturnal, No Apologies, NuFirm, Offcuts, Oneironaut, Oscarlimar, Paris Avenue, Paul Colman, Peagazus, Peter Cupples, Rachael Kane, Responder, Reverend Funk, Rhibosome, Ricki-Lee, Rocket Science, Rogue Traders, Rudely Interupted, Samsara, Savage (NZ), Sebasrockets, Seconds to Fall, Sgt. Slick, Shihad, Shock Records, Shotpointblank, Slick 46, Snout, Sons of Korah, Sophie Koh, Spit Syndicate, The Spazzies, Special Patrol, Star Assassin, Sub Audible Hum, Superheist, Tamarindo Records (France), Taxi Ride, Tenth Dan, Tex Perkins, Timothy Slater, The Androids, The Anyones, The Bedroom Philosopher, The Casanovas, The Cat Empire, The Drapht, The Drugs, The Dumb Earth, The Fauves, The Hired Guns, The Meanies, The Pictures, The Potbelleez, The Record Boys, The Surrogate, The Waifs, The Wellingtons, This is War, Tiffany Eckhardt, Tiltmeter, Tim Rogers (You Am I), Tina Cousins, Trial and Error, Tripod, Twin Cartel, Vandalism, Vicious Vinyl, Vika & Linda, Virgin Black, Ross Wilson (Daddy Cool, Mondo Rock), WeaponX, Won Voice Ministries, Worth Dying For, Youth Alive, Zomba Records Australia, Zoophyte
Type of Label: None

My Blog

On the Crystal Couch...

On the Crystal Couch... Warming the Crystal couches over the last month;'The Bedroom Philosopher', 'Gameboy Gamegirl','The Wellingtons', 'Hercules In New York', 'Hook'N'Sling', 'The Sapzzies', Eddy...
Posted by Crystal Mastering on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:28:00 PST

Gear Update...

Gear Update: API 5500 classic analogue eq lands at Crystal. This legendary unit was developed in the 1960s and the re-issue is an exact copy with additional mastering controls.
Posted by Crystal Mastering on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:02:00 PST

Shihad on the Crystal Couch...

On the Crystal Couch... Warming the Crystal couches over the last month;'Vandalism', 'Nick Charles', 'James McCann', 'Battle for Solice','Mad Dolly', 'Jimi Lundy', 'No Love lost', 'Lost in Line','Au...
Posted by Crystal Mastering on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:46:00 PST

Our mastering engineers

John Ruberto, was Melbourne's first, full time mastering engineer, and has been mastering since the mid '80s. John started his career at Newmarket studios, in what was then, Melbourne's only mastering...
Posted by Crystal Mastering on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:52:00 PST