About Us
The Directory of Mastering Studios ("DMS") is the first Non Profit Community Organization Advocacy for mastering engineers that facilitates connections between artists and producers with mastering services around the world.
The Directory of Mastering Studios is an online platform that provides a comprehensive list of the best mastering studios around the western world. It provides detailed information about each studio, including reviews, contact information and pricing.
By using either our quick search feature, or the advanced search filters; visitors can find the exact type of mastering service they are looking for according to their budgetary needs. These filters are categorized by the studio price range (per track/mix), country, service type (online or attended), and music style specialization. We may continue to add more filters in the future.
Philosophy & Mission Goals
The purpose of DMS is twofold; protect the artist community from deceptive audio websites advertising fake mastering services and guard the reputation of all legitimate mastering engineers and their studios around the world. DMS is also a great resource for recording studio owners wishing to expand marketing objectives for their music services.
Why Join?
Today, DMS enjoys first position in most organic SERP listings generated by search engines. These search results are based on a series of metrics that determine relevance to specific audio search terms. In our case these terms are: "Directory of Mastering Studios", "List of Mastering Studios" and/or a few variations of these keywords thereof, where at the very least, our website is listed within the top search results.
By offering total transparency of the music mastering online market, we are building the best directory of mastering studios in the western world, while at the same time, empowering the general public to find their ideal mastering service.
Mastering engineers and studio owners can list their websites or social media business pages to increase sales leads, and have an option to include an exclusive, low studio rate available for DMS artist members only. The studio would be bound by a non-exclusive agreement and required to fulfill its discount rate until the primary account holder deactivates, or otherwise, removes this option from the studio profile page. This means that this discount rate option can be cancelled at anytime.
The best part of it is that DMS doesn't make money on the jobs you receive (unlike SoundBetter and many other service platforms like Fiverr, UpWork), and survives only from member donations.
That said, any artist member searching and finding a discount rate can contact the mastering service to lock in on that exclusive rate. Using the DMS exclusive rate option, only to fail to provide service at that discount rate (e.g. bait & switch tactic) will immediately cancel participation in this program.
Unlike Yelp or SoundBetter, DMS only compares studio prices that are at the same price level. For example: a search for a service charging between $100~$145/per track will only display results containing studios that charge between $100 and $145/per track. Period. If your studio is within that price range, it will show up in the search results.
As previously stated, we want to empower people to find their ideal mastering service within their mastering budget thus facilitating the connection between end user and mastering engineer. Our advanced search tools have multiple filters that allow visitors to find mastering studios according to their search criteria. All search results come in the form of 'Fliers' (previously business cards) which are linked to beautiful profile studio pages.
DMS is also FREE, depending only on our members' generous donations. All free accounts come with a studio profile and a flier for coming up in search results and can even be upgraded to professional looking studio page for free.
The layouts were designed by professional mastering engineers, not computer geeks, and who can best understand a studio owner's needs. Our page builder interface tool makes it easy for you to provide all the relevant details about your studio business and create a great looking profile page without any programming from you.
You can add to your profile: a bio, social media links, SoundCloud audio tracks, even advertise a block rate special and much, much more!
Most importantly, we are still committed to provide a value as we plan to rank at the top of all search engines through an extensive advertisement program and link exchange programs.
Benefits For All Involved:
- DMS connects visitors with mastering engineers for either personally attended (offline) or remote mastering sessions (online).
- DMS features a rate discount finder tool which enables any user to find the best possible mastering rates and special discount rates by mastering studios on the web.
- Studio owners can list their services at no charge and/or create profile pages which will be viewed by thousands of visitors looking for mastering.