DigitalSoundMagic.com is a professional recording studio, based in Canada
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Digital Sound Magic Studios - Professional Recording, Mastering and Production Studio
Description
Digital Sound Magic Studios is a professional audio recording, mastering and post production studio, operating for over 14 years in Vancouver BC, Canada. (just blocks away from The Bridge Studios and Vancouver Film Studios).
Staffed with experienced engineers and producers, clients from all over the world use Digital Sound Magic for precise, high-quality recording, production, mixing, mastering, composing and unbeatable customer service.
Additional Information
You can relax and get that 'perfect take' at our studio without any pressures or egos. We are here to make you sound your best, allowing you to focus on your performance.
Our mixes are always done at 32bit floating-point accuracy keeping the signal path crystal clear. All mixdowns are completed internally, meaning you will always get first- generation versions of your projects, which translates to a clearer and cleaner sound on TV, radio, CD and film.
We can then master your CD with ISRC codes, proper track indexing and furnish you with a master disc and track list printout. All you have to do send your masterpiece to the CD duplication plant.
The Vibe, The Space, The People Our studio has a warm, creative atmosphere where clients are treated with the utmost respect in a highly collaborative environment. At the helm is Richard Dolmat, who has been described as a producer and engineer of the highest caliber with bang-on direction, technical perfection and passionate commitment. Richard's recordings have received airplay on most top radio stations in Vancouver and placement on the major TV networks (Fox TV, NBC, A&E, CTV, TSN, Bravo!).
Singer/Songwriters Let's collaborate and get your final artistic vision 'onto tape'. All you need is your idea and your song, and we'll work together to get the full production sound into your music. We'll add bass, keys, drums, backing vox. Of course you dictate the style and direction because we're there to work for you.
Session Musicians We can supply a wide range of session musicians for your projects, including: tenor/alto sax, trumpet, flute, cello, violin/fiddle, bass, guitars, background vocals, string arrangements and more. If you are interested in becoming a part of our session musician pool, please send a demo and CV/Resume to the address on our Contact Us page! We listen to each and every demo.
Contact
- Digital Sound Magic
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- Coquitlam BC
- Canada V3B 6Y7
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- +1.6045375616
Client List
Film
- ABC (Donald Trump Biographical Movie: Original Music)
- Acts of Imagination (Sound Design, Music, ADR, Foley recording/editing)
- Ripper: A Letter From Hell (Bruce Payne, A.J. Cook: Original Music)
- Tail Lights Fade (Denise Richards, Jake Busey: Original Music)
- Strata Motion Pictures
- With You (Mixing)
- Earthshine Productions
- Prophecy Entertainment
- Springate-Combs
- Cadence-Voyageur
TV
- CTV
- Fox TV (Malcolm In The Middle x2)
- Fox TV (Reunion x3)
- 20th Century Fox (The Shield)
- A&E Biography (Richard Branson)
- MTV (The Real World)
- TSN
- ABC (Masters of Horror)
- Disney Channel (Life With Derek)
- Bravo!
- Global TV (The Jane Show)
Corporate
- Esso
- Canadian Tire
- Starbucks
- Simoniz
- Q Stores
- Pfizer
- Belair Travel
- Vonage
- Mark's Work Warehouse
- MPI Software
- KOR Manufacturing
- United Nations - World Urban Forum
- Expo 2000
- The Source: by Circuit City
- Government of Canada
- Mastercard
- Habitat For Humanity
- Flora Health Inc.
- Vancouver Coastal Health
- OPM Restaurants
- HIP Visual Media
- Midlyn Communications
- BC Dairy Foundation
- Pizza Pizza
- Joey Tomato's Restaurants
- Bing Han Corp.
- Canadian Memorial Church
- Everlasting Communication
- Nova 21 Group (Japan)
- Ft. St. James National Historic Site
- Concordia Career College
- Janet Helm Presents
- Within Wellness
- West Coast Cheer
- Kitsilano High School
- S. Delta High School
- Phoenix Flames All Stars
- Providence Maitreya Buddha Missionary Temple
- Valley All Stars
- Delta Controls
- King James High School
- Pistol Chant Productions
Recording/Mastering (Bands etc)
- Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra
- EMI Records
- Mercury Records
- PLAYiNDIES.com
- John Bottomley
- Au4
- Carolyna Loveless
- Wild Whirled Music
- The Opera Project
- Get A Mentor.com
- Recording Connection
- House Of Praise Studios
- Dan Mirchandani
- The Heat
- DJ Snoopy
- Locos Bravos (Winner: Best Instrumental Album)
- 'This'
- DJ Speechless
- Two Shirleys
- Dorothy Godlinski
- Ghost Brothers
- Noah Nine
- Devinder Dillon
- Simon Budd
- Fabiana Katz
- Virtuous
- Pleasure Principle
- Cara Brown
- Go Ishii
- Colin Browne
- Todd Kargl
- David Bentall
- Leonardo Lombardo
- Arto Tienaho
- Yvonne Campeau
- Purdy Mouth Band
- Living Illusion
- Kevin Mitchell
- Dustin Kavanagh
- CEO
- Dream Park
- Zany Zack
- Audrey Abraham
- Rachel Albang
- Adam Falk
- K-Mack
- Jim Brown
- Joel Davidson
- Julie Tan
- Boom Dayupay
- Ted Malone
- Jordan Patterson
- Clara Shandler
- Grace Wan
- Karl Fousek
- Iris
- Lala Hung
- Robert Mull
- Katie Montgomery
- Anthill
- Leonardo Lombardo
- Phil Taylor
- Marc Stonestreet
- Patricia Chung
- Robert Geyer
- Eric Hempsall
- Rhayne
Mastering
Mastering is the last stage of production, right before the master CD is sent to get duplicated and distributed. It is extremely important to your product and can dramatically improve the quality and consistency of your recordings.
Since many musicians have home studios, it is more important than ever to get your final CD mastered properly. For indies trying to stand out in a world of big recording budgets, this level of mastering art can make a huge impact.
Some of the processing done at the mastering stage include:
* Equalization and harmonic balancing for consistant sound throughout your entire album. * Adjusting micro/macro-dynamics (volume changes) of your songs for consistency and loudness. * Checking inter-channel phase and polarity for mono compatability. * Final CD layout with proper song spaces, segues, fades and crossfades snapped to CD frame boundaries. * Sample and bit rate conversion with dither to Red Book CD Standard. * and a few tricks up our sleeve
What you get at the end:
* Proper final master CD burning with relevant paperwork (PQ Lists, BLER print-out etc.) * Full QC (quality control) on all final masters (C1/C2/CU/BLER error checks). * Individually silkscreened master CD with your name and contact info. * A studio that takes it's time (may take 1, 2 or more days; until you're happy) * A kickin' album!
Use our Mastering Order Form page to send us your information.
It's amazing how a good mastering job can bring out the width, depth and dimension of a song. You'll hear sounds that used to be buried in the mix, the vocals will shine through, the reverb and effects will be heard, and the whole CD will be more enjoyable over a varying range of playback systems.
We can accept audio CD, data CD (wav, aiff), DAT, 16-bit ADAT, DA-88, Mini-Disc, cassette tape, vinyl, USB/Firewire hard-drives.
Here is what you should do when sending us your music:
* Use our Mastering Order Form page to send us all your information. * Include all ISRC codes along with your songs, we need these before we burn the final master disc. * DO NOT add any processing to your main mix bus (ie: compression etc). Keep it natural and clean. * Do not clip your files, keep your peaks somewhere around -3dB and you'll be safe. It's nearly impossible to remove distortion. * Leave space before and after your music (ie: 2-3 sec at head and tail of each song) * If you have, include the UPC number of the disc. * Make sure ALL your song names are in full. No abbreviations please! We need full names to add as CD-TEXT (which some CD players use to show your band name and song name) * Give us a track list of the order you would like your songs to appear on the final CD. * Include your CD album title * Include your FULL contact information (Band Name, Album Name, Contact Person, address, tel, fax, web, email etc). We use this information to print onto your duplication master disc. * Send along a few of your favorite songs as reference. Rip a couple of songs from your favorite CD and add these in with your original files. This can do wonders in helping the mastering engineer understand the 'sound' you are striving for. It's always easier to 'hear' an example than it is for you to explain it!
If possible, we prefer to receive 44.1 kHz (24bit) data files on CD-ROM (24bit wav or aiff). This gives us the best source material to work with.
Errors
Each and every audio CD in the world has errors on it. That's just the nature of the game. But each and every audio CD player has built-in error correction. The CD player fixes these errors on the disc before you can hear them, giving you perfectly clean audio playback. According to the Red Book Audio CD Standard, an audio CD is allowed up to 220 errors per second! Well, we like to think we have better quality control than that. We like to keep our error rate to no more than 30 per second. But we quite often average around 5 per second. Here is a graph of a recent master we completed that averages only 0.9 errors per second!
