Kevin Lively Mastering offers audio mastering of the highest standard. Offering unsurpassed quality and integrity by utilizing both analog and digital tool sets with an ear of an experienced mastering specialist.
Kevin began his career as a recording engineer in Atlanta, Georgia, while working with top producers and songwriters, such as Daryl Simmons, Brendan O’Brien, Babyface, and Jermaine Dupri. Throughout his career he garnered Gold and Platinum certifications from the RIAA, with artists such as Rage Against the Machine, Elton John, Aretha Franklin, Usher, and Pink, among others. After relocating to Oklahoma City, he continued engineering and production, and started Kevin Lively Mastering. Today Kevin provides unsurpassed quality and integrity in audio mastering for varieties of recording artists, both well known and others more esoteric. Serving as a member of the Producers and Engineering Wing of the Grammy Academy (NARAS) and also a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), Kevin continues to give back to future generations as an educator at the Academy of Contemporary Music with the University of Central Oklahoma (ACM@UCO).
Our equipment can provide transparent processing or add character and color to a mix offering an enormous gain in quality to your productions. With hi-end analog equipment your master will have more punch, sound full with stronger impact and thickness. Have smoother treble and a wider spatial dimension with more depth that will be missing from typical digital “plug-in” only mastering. Our diverse collection of high quality analog and digital tools combined with years of experience enable us to provide you the upmost sonic integrity that your project deserves.
Steinberg WaveLab 8 Mastering Suite
Sonoris DDP Creator Pro
AVID ProTools 10/11
Apple Logic Pro
ADAM Reference Monitors
KRK V12 Sub
Sennheiser Headphones
Lynx Hilo Mastering Reference AD/DA Converter
Millennia TCL-2
API 2500
Rupert Neve Designs Master Buss Processor
MANLEY Massive Passive
Avalon 747
DMG EQuilibrium
Voxengo CurveEQ
Brainworx bx_digital V2
Brainworx Dynamic EQ
FabFilter Pro-Q
Sonnox Restoration Suite
iZotope RX3 Restoration Tools
Voxengo Elephant
PSP Xeon Limiter
Flux Pure Limiter II
FabFilter Pro-L
UAD Precision Multiband
FabFilter Pro-MB
Vertigo VSC-2
SSL G Series Bus Compressor
Sonnox SuprEsser
FabFilter Pro-DS
Sonnox Oxford Inflator
Sonnox TransMod
UAD Ampex ATR-102
UAD Studer A800
Slate Digital VCC
UAD Precision K-Stereo
iZotope Ozone 5 Advanced
Audiofile Engineering Sample Editor
Sonnox Codec Toolbox
Sony PCM-R300
Tascam 122 mkII
Hitachi HT-320 w/Grado stylus
Cambridge Audio LP Preamp
Plextor Master R Disc drive
Studer A820 1/4" (on request)
Professional mastering is a crucial step in the process of a professional music release and offers an enormous quality gain for a production. As a result, a mix will increase in impact, sound more powerful, and translate more balanced. An engineer, specializing in high-end audio mastering, will subtly bring out pleasing details in a mix and resolve inconsistencies in the production that might otherwise be missed.
We specialize in mastering services of music productions for commercial releases of label projects as well as independent artists. Whether your project is being released on vinyl, CD or direct digital download we provide the finest equipment and expertise to achieve your project’s needs.
Mastering services are also available for film scores and television soundtracks. If you need an album release of your music from your film or video production or need sonic enhancement of your audio we have the high-end tools to enhance any recorded audio and make it sound more rich and tonally balanced.
Our services include album layout & formatting, sonic balancing and dynamics control, PMCD hard disc preparation, DDP fileset or HD Master file creation, authoring ISRC codes, UPC encoding and CD Text also available. We have an assortment of high quality audio restoration tools for noise reduction and filtering or removing unwanted artifacts and errors.
