Refine the
texture of your sound.

A high-end mastering studio in Cape Town. Very few tools, very small moves — with consequences out of all proportion to their size.

Macro detail of the rotary controls on an analogue mastering processor

A record is made of its silences as much as its sounds.

Don’t make the listener hear the mastering. Make the listener hear more of why the record works. Technical excellence disappears into the thing it is there to serve.

Hybrid Flow

Merging the depth of analog and the surgical precision of digital with the magic of the human physiology.

Atmosphere

A boutique monitoring environment built for critical listening.

Line drawing of a spiral resolving to a single point, echoing the inner ear

Stereo Mastering

The standard for digital and streaming delivery. Tonal balance, dynamic control and loudness judged as one decision.

Stem Mastering

For projects needing deeper control. Groups processed separately to resolve phase, density and balance.

Vinyl Pre-mastering

EQ and dynamics prepared for RIAA curves and the physical limitations of the lathe.

Spatial / Dolby Atmos

Object-based immersive mastering for multi-channel rooms and binaural headphone translation.

We receive masters from across the world through EdibleOnline.

David Maclean

David doesn't master all day. He also helps organisations improve how they make decisions through SCAR Advantage.

The same discipline runs through his mastering. He listens before he touches. He finds the smallest move that helps the thing arrive, then lets it breathe. In mastering, that move is often half a decibel. In an organisation, it is the one decision a company keeps getting stuck on.

Whether it's music or chief executives, the work is judged in the car, and is best when it is undetectable.