- 01 INPUT
Raw in.
Ric Hertz.
Record out.
Between your mix and the world sits one pair of ears — thirty years at the faders, work with Mott the Hoople’s Verden Allen and Lacuna Coil’s Marco Barusso. No juniors, no presets. Ric signs every master himself.
20 years of Mixing & Mastering
From £100 / track
Free revisions
Free test master for new clients
- 01 INPUT
Raw in.
Ric Hertz.
Record out.
Between your mix and the world sits one pair of ears — thirty years at the faders, work with Mott the Hoople’s Verden Allen and Lacuna Coil’s Marco Barusso. No juniors, no presets. Ric signs every master himself.
20 years of Mixing & Mastering
From £100 / track
Free revisions
Free test master for new clients
- 02 MONITOR
Hear the difference.
Real masters, gain-matched against the raw mix. Flip the source between BEFORE and AFTER — no loudness trick, just the record.
- 03 THE ROOM
Built for one
thing: accuracy.
A fully decoupled room-in-a-room floating build, treated with Rockwool RWA45 and RW3 rigid slab behind fabric walls, so the low end stays honest from first reflection to the modal region. None of it masters anything on its own — it’s what lets Ric hear the record properly and judge every track against the same truth.
Upload a track to an AI master and you get the average of everything the model was trained on — fine for a demo, wrong for a release. Every curve here is shaped by a person who sits with the song, knows the genre, and can explain every move — turnaround takes as long as the song needs, not minutes.
- 03 THE ROOM
Built for one
thing: accuracy.
A fully decoupled room-in-a-room floating build, treated with Rockwool RWA45 and RW3 rigid slab behind fabric walls, so the low end stays honest from first reflection to the modal region. None of it masters anything on its own — it’s what lets Ric hear the record properly and judge every track against the same truth.
Upload a track to an AI master and you get the average of everything the model was trained on — fine for a demo, wrong for a release. Every curve here is shaped by a person who sits with the song, knows the genre, and can explain every move — turnaround takes as long as the song needs, not minutes.
Monitors
Amphion One18 · RCF Ayra Pro10 sub
Passive nearfields extended by a sub for controlled low-end authority — not louder, truer.
Conversion
Prism Sound Lyra 2
Reference-grade AD/DA on the way in and the way out. What the room hears is what’s on the file.
Correction
Dirac Live · PreSonus PRM1
Frequency and time-domain response corrected at the listening position — measured, not guessed.
Cross-check
IK Multimedia iLoud MTM MKII
An independent second monitoring path. Every call gets a second opinion before it stands.
Translation
HIFIMAN Ananda Nano on Topping amp · Austrian Audio Hi-X65 · AirPods Max & Pro
Checked where your listeners actually are. If it holds up across all of that, it holds up everywhere.
- 04 THE MENU
Four ways in.
Per track · GBP · prices final — no VAT, no subscriptions
- 04 THE MENU
Four ways in.
Per track · GBP · prices final — no VAT, no subscriptions
- 04 THE MENU
Four ways in.
Per track · GBP · prices final — no VAT, no subscriptions
Mastering
Stereo master from your final mix. 24-bit + 16-bit WAV + 320k MP3.
3-5 WORKING DAYS
£100
Mastering
Stereo master from your final mix. 24-bit + 16-bit WAV + 320k MP3.
3-5 WORKING DAYS
£100
Mastering
Stereo master from your final mix. 24-bit + 16-bit WAV + 320k MP3.
3-5 WORKING DAYS
£100
Mixing
Full mix from your stems. Stereo 24-bit WAV + MP3 reference.
7-10 WORKING DAYS
£280
Mixing
Full mix from your stems. Stereo 24-bit WAV + MP3 reference.
7-10 WORKING DAYS
£280
Mixing
Full mix from your stems. Stereo 24-bit WAV + MP3 reference.
7-10 WORKING DAYS
£280
Mix + Master
Both jobs, one engineer, single point of contact. The conversion offer.
10-14 WORKING DAYS
£340
Mix + Master
Both jobs, one engineer, single point of contact. The conversion offer.
10-14 WORKING DAYS
£340
Mix + Master
Both jobs, one engineer, single point of contact. The conversion offer.
10-14 WORKING DAYS
£340
Stem mastering
Master built from stems rather than a single stereo mix.
3-5 WORKING DAYS
£175
Stem mastering
Master built from stems rather than a single stereo mix.
3-5 WORKING DAYS
£175
Stem mastering
Master built from stems rather than a single stereo mix.
3-5 WORKING DAYS
£175
FREE REVISIONS – 10% OFF AT 5+ TRACKS – FREE TEST MASTER – TAILORED TO YOUR REQUIREMENTS
FREE REVISIONS – 10% OFF AT 5+ TRACKS – FREE TEST MASTER – TAILORED TO YOUR REQUIREMENTS
- 05 CHAIN OF CUSTODY
The chain
runs like this.
Everything happens on one private project page – payment, files, progress, revisions, delivery.
- 05 CHAIN OF CUSTODY
The chain
runs like this.
Everything happens on one private project page – payment, files, progress, revisions, delivery.
01
Choose and pay
Pick a service, pay per track, and a private project page opens in the portal. No email threads, no chasing.
02
Upload the mix
Send files through your project page. I review every delivery within 24 hours.
03
I get to work
The clock starts when I accept your files — then I sit with the song in a treated room on real monitors and make every call by hand.
04
Approve and release
Hear the master on your project page, request revisions until it’s right, download release-ready files.
“When it came to the mix, he really brought the song to life, pulling out details and energy we’d overlooked and helping it become the best version of itself. It always felt like a genuine collaboration.”
- JOE DISSON THE DIVIDED - MIX & MASTER
“When it came to the mix, he really brought the song to life, pulling out details and energy we’d overlooked and helping it become the best version of itself. It always felt like a genuine collaboration.”
- JOE DISSON THE DIVIDED - MIX & MASTER
- 06 THE ENGINEER
One name on
every master.
Behind that name is a story worth five minutes — three decades from KJM Music Studios to a room floated off its own foundations, and a mastering system built in-house because nothing off the shelf was good enough. The full tour is one click away.
Est. 1995 · Mott the Hoople · Lacuna Coil · Rature Power
- 06 THE ENGINEER
One name on
every master.
Behind that name is a story worth five minutes — three decades from KJM Music Studios to a room floated off its own foundations, and a mastering system built in-house because nothing off the shelf was good enough. The full tour is one click away.
Est. 1995 · Mott the Hoople · Lacuna Coil · Rature Power
- FROM THE ROOM
A one-of-a-kind mastering system
built around thirty years on the ears.
It isn't sold, licensed or rented — the
only way to hear what it does is to
send a track.
- FROM THE ROOM
A one-of-a-kind mastering system
built around thirty years on the ears.
It isn't sold, licensed or rented — the
only way to hear what it does is to
send a track.
- 07 OUTPUT
Send one track.
Pay nothing.
New clients get the first half of one track mastered free. If the test master doesn’t move you, walk away — no invoice, no hard feelings.
- 07 OUTPUT
Send one track.
Pay nothing.
New clients get the first half of one track mastered free. If the test master doesn’t move you, walk away — no invoice, no hard feelings.