Ambient & darkwave mastering · Hamburg
Your quiet passages stay quiet.
Ambient, drone, darkwave and EBM mastered at the level the music needs. If it should stay quieter, we tell you. 39 € per track.
Dark Ambient · Drone · Darkwave · Coldwave · EBM
Releasing for a label? Rates and compilationsBefore / after, level-matched
Same loudness. Decide by ear.
Before and after play at the same loudness, so you hear what the master changes: the kick, the low end, the space. Loud is fine. Flat is not.
What dynamic music needs from a master
No club loudness by default
Spotify turns loud masters down to around −14 LUFS anyway. A dynamic master loses nothing there and keeps its depth on vinyl, cassette and headphones.
Long tracks
Fourteen-minute drones are welcome. Tell us the length with your request and you know the price before you send any files.
Cassette, vinyl, Bandcamp
Each format gets the version it needs. One master for everything usually means one format sounds wrong.
EBM with punch
Darkwave and EBM need a kick that hits without squashing the synths around it.
Before we master, we listen like a producer.
If something in the mix holds your track back, you hear it from us first. Raw productions stay raw.
Mastered by someone who has played the big stages.
Too much energy, too little room. Lars Peter knows that problem from both sides of the speakers.
- live shows
- 100+
- continents
- 4
- first master
- 2008
On stage as Antagon and as -Z- (alpha & antagon), from Boom in Portugal to tours through the USA, Mexico and India.
Lars has produced psytrance with darkwave and industrial elements since 2004. He knows the difference between a quiet master and a weak one.
Interzone is two people and one studio. Lars Peter masters, André Szigethy produces and runs the webradio. You always talk to the engineer who masters your track.
Pricing
One price per track, whether you send one or twenty. Final prices: invoices are issued without VAT under the German small-business rule (§19 UStG).
Vinyl premaster +15 € / track · DDP image 35 € · Express 24 h +50 % · Changes on the same mix cost nothing
Questions
Will my album sound too quiet on streaming?
No. Streaming services turn everything to a similar level. A quieter master just keeps more of its dynamics when they do.
Do you master for cassette?
Yes. Cassette needs less top end and a little more care with the low end. Tell us the duplication service and we prepare the files for it.
What if my track is 14 minutes long?
Send us the length with your request. You get the price before you send the files.
Send the full track. Tell us the part you worry about.
You get a free test master back, usually within 2–3 days. Then you decide.
Paste a Dropbox, Google Drive or SwissTransfer link and we fetch the file ourselves. Otherwise you get a private upload link by email, valid for 7 days. No account, no payment.