Tamar Mastering-About Us

Tamar Mastering offers Mastering for Music, Film and Internet, and specializes in Forensic Audio, Audio Enhancement and Restoration at our sister site Tamar Forensics LLC. Our fresh, unbiased, and professional approach safeguards the integrity of every song while producing the clearest, loudest and most honest sound possible. Final projects are equalized, balanced and brought to maximum volume levels in order to be competitive with industry standards. Audio Enhancement and Restoration are performed with great care, using restoration and Forensic software via a Digital Workstation. Our goal is to provide our clients with the most meticulous, and timely service possible.

Marisa T. Dery is the Chief Engineer at Tamar Mastering, as well as a consultant in Forensic Audio at ARCCA,(a technology service firm) , and was previously an audio engineer at Harvard University's Audio Preservation Services.

Dery, a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Music Production and Engineering , worked at the Tape Complex - at the time the largest real-time duplication center on the East Coast - for thirteen years, several of them as Chief Engineer. Marisa left the Tape Complex in 2002 and founded Tamar Mastering, in order to create a room where people could feel comfortable and trust that their vision was properly captured.

Marisa has worked at a record label, as chief engineer at an audio/video duplication house and as head of audio in a video post-production house. She has over 30 years experience in the industry, worked with a variety of styles of music, and enhanced many types of recordings for the judicial system.

Links: https://college.berklee.edu/mpe /
https://arcca.com/our-company/

What is Music Mastering?

The term “mastering” often confuses many people. It’s not voodoo or magic (although I can see why people might think that it is) but a skill that takes many years to perfect.

It is the last phase in the creation of a CD. Once the disc is mixed, the mastering engineer must place the songs in a certain order and equalize them (using signal processing) so that they sound as clear as possible. Finally, and most importantly, the mastering engineer must make all the songs on the CD sound like one cohesive unit, sonically equivalent to what is out on the market at the time. This is a difficult task since an album is generally recorded at different times using several studios with varying temperatures. For a more in-depth explanation of mastering, please check out my articles on this site.