Slam Door Studios
Recording / Mixing / Mastering
Slam Door Studios is run by recording artist, engineer and producer Ed Rome. With over 15 years' experience in mixing and mastering Ed has built a reputation for producing high quality results. Many of Ed's recordings are regularly featured on BBC radio and the recent album 'Trigger Warning' by The Chancers which Ed produced, mixed and mastered, won a CZ Grammy/Angel award.
Ed has spent years perfecting Slam Door's listening and live environment to give you the best results possible. Ed has worked on material from genres as wide ranging as choral to metal & reggae to classical. Ed realises that handing material over to a mastering engineer can be difficult for an artist but he is always keen to incorporate artists' tastes as much as is possible within the mastering process.
EP (1-4 tracks) - £38 a track
Mini Album (5-9 tracks) - £35 a track
Album (10-14 tracks) - £32 a track
Add £8 a track per extra medium e.g. Vinyl
We are happy to master a sample for your perusal before you commit.
For songs longer than 7 minutes please contact first
After your free mix appraisal and mastering sample, if you want to proceed with mastering then Slam Door asks for 50% payment upfront and the remaining 50% on completion of the master via paypal to [email protected].
Please Contact us for Mixing rates
A bad mix can destroy perfectly good recordings! We want to get the absolute best out of your recordings and want the mix to represent your material as best as possible so you can get your music noticed amongst the competition. As ever it It is in our interest too to put our name to the best product possible!
We also offer detailed mix appraisals for those who want to mix their own music but may have got to the point where they need some help. Maybe you are constantly remixing, not getting very far and need another pair of ears in a properly acoustically treated room to have a detailed listen and give you some pointers.
Mastering is the final process of music creation before the duplication/replication of the release. Slam Door's accurate monitoring in its fully acoustically treated listening environment enables the application of 15 years of mastering experience. Your mixes are taken and turned into professional standard radio friendly commercial masters.
Mastering can involve working on frequency balance, dynamics, noise/digital error correction, clarity, stereo image and loudness. The mastering process ensures that your music will transfer successfully to various playback systems and will give your audio consistent clarity and volume across an album, mini album or EP.
Bear in mind that mastering is not a magic wand. You cannot assume that problems in recording or mixing can always be solved in the mastering process and why would you want to pay for unnecessary corrective mastering work! If a mix is poor then there is only so much mastering can do for it. To avoid disappointment, record your music to the highest quality you can and get your mixes sounding as you want them to. Mastering is vital but it is the 'final polish' and not the fundamentals of the music's sonic qualities.
For those who want their music mastered here at Slam Door we offer free mix appraisals. We will point out anything that can be tweaked more successfully at the mixing stage as it is pointless mastering mixes that could be easily bettered your end. It is in our interest to put our name to mastering the best final product possible!
We can offer suggestions as to ways to improve the arrangement of your material. From something as simple as a change in chord use to offering full arrangements for your initial idea.
If you need players on your music we can offer all saxophones, guitars, bass, keys, mandolin, harmonica drums, percussion and vocals in many genres...
"Quality Old School Production"
- Neville Staple (The Specials)
"Whenever we record music in the future we will want Ed to be involved, in fact, we will make sure we keep recording just to keep working with Ed!"
- The Twisty Turns
"Not only does Ed have an incredible ear for sound but he also listens to his client and works with you to achieve great results. His knowledge and attention to detail whilst mixing and mastering have helped our projects to become so much more."
- Stuart Bowditch (Courier Sound)
"Ed Rome (Slam Door Studios) is one of the industries best recording, mixing and mastering engineers. His work for our label has always been thorough and his creative input is a vital part of our release process."
- Sticky Joe (Kingston Express)
Once you are happy that your mixes are as good as they can be you can then send your stereo wav files to Slam Door Studios via dropbox to [email protected] for your free mix appraisal and free online mastering sample. If you have any sonic preferences (e.g. regarding levels of processing and loudness) please tell us!
N.B. do not use any effects on the master buss and when rendering/bouncing, do not apply dither and leave 2-4dB head room and do not normalise. For more info see 'mixing tips'
If you have any questions please feel free to fill out our Contact form
Once you are happy that your recordings are as good as they can be you can then send your stems to Slam Door Studios via dropbox to [email protected]
Send us a stem (a WAV or AIFF file containing one instrument) for each song. Make sure all the stems start from the same point and that they do not have ANY effects on them (N.B. do not use any effects on the master buss and when rendering/bouncing).
If you prefer you can send a Logic X session of you work(s)
If you have any sonic preferences please tell us! e.g. "I would like spring reverb on the lead vocals".
If you already have a mix of your track that you are not happy with, send it to us and tell us what you do and do not like about it. Also, where appropriate, send us samples of other artists mixes you like and explain why.
If you have any questions please feel free to fill out our Contact form
