Album Mastering – Full 12-Song Record
Mastering is the final, defining step in bringing an album to life. Our 12-song album mastering service is designed for artists who want their record to sound cohesive, emotionally present, and truly finished. Rather than treating tracks as isolated files, we master your album as a complete work, shaping tone, dynamics, depth, and continuity so the record feels unified from beginning to end.
Using professional mastering tools and high-fidelity listening environments, we refine clarity and warmth, manage dynamics, enhance stereo image, and ensure consistency across every track. The goal is not simply loudness, but presence, impact, musical honesty, and translation across real listening environments.
This service is ideal for records headed to streaming, vinyl or CD production, film licensing consideration, or long-term catalog release.
Included
• Mastering for up to 12 songs
• Cohesive tonal and dynamic alignment across the entire album
• Sequencing and flow considerations
• Streaming-optimized loudness and delivery
• Detailed spectral and clarity refinement
• Professional QC listening
• Final WAV masters delivered
• Optional DDP or CD/Vinyl prep available
Your album deserves to sound like a finished record, not a collection of mixes.
About the Mastering Engineer — Mark Kuykendall
Mark Kuykendall is a composer, producer, recording artist, and mastering engineer with a deeply developed ear for nuance, emotional presence, and sonic integrity. As founder of Unknown Tone Records, Mark spent more than a decade shaping the sound and presentation of over 60 international releases, working with artists across genres and cultures while refining a mastering approach grounded in subtlety, depth, and musical honesty.
His work bridges experimental, cinematic, ambient, orchestral, and song-driven forms, giving him a broad perspective on dynamics, tone, space, and narrative flow within recorded music. Mark approaches mastering not as a purely technical process, but as the final creative act in finishing a record: a place where detail, balance, warmth, and cohesion are brought into alignment so the work can live confidently in the world.
Working from a professionally tuned studio environment, Mark focuses on clarity without harshness, power without losing dynamics, and polish without compromising the character of the artist’s original vision. His goal is simple and disciplined: help records feel alive, timeless, and deeply listenable across every platform and listening space.
Album Mastering — $1,500
Please reach out to us if you would like to customize your mastering package!
Mastering is the final, defining step in bringing an album to life. Our 12-song album mastering service is designed for artists who want their record to sound cohesive, emotionally present, and truly finished. Rather than treating tracks as isolated files, we master your album as a complete work, shaping tone, dynamics, depth, and continuity so the record feels unified from beginning to end.
Using professional mastering tools and high-fidelity listening environments, we refine clarity and warmth, manage dynamics, enhance stereo image, and ensure consistency across every track. The goal is not simply loudness, but presence, impact, musical honesty, and translation across real listening environments.
This service is ideal for records headed to streaming, vinyl or CD production, film licensing consideration, or long-term catalog release.
Included
• Mastering for up to 12 songs
• Cohesive tonal and dynamic alignment across the entire album
• Sequencing and flow considerations
• Streaming-optimized loudness and delivery
• Detailed spectral and clarity refinement
• Professional QC listening
• Final WAV masters delivered
• Optional DDP or CD/Vinyl prep available
Your album deserves to sound like a finished record, not a collection of mixes.
About the Mastering Engineer — Mark Kuykendall
Mark Kuykendall is a composer, producer, recording artist, and mastering engineer with a deeply developed ear for nuance, emotional presence, and sonic integrity. As founder of Unknown Tone Records, Mark spent more than a decade shaping the sound and presentation of over 60 international releases, working with artists across genres and cultures while refining a mastering approach grounded in subtlety, depth, and musical honesty.
His work bridges experimental, cinematic, ambient, orchestral, and song-driven forms, giving him a broad perspective on dynamics, tone, space, and narrative flow within recorded music. Mark approaches mastering not as a purely technical process, but as the final creative act in finishing a record: a place where detail, balance, warmth, and cohesion are brought into alignment so the work can live confidently in the world.
Working from a professionally tuned studio environment, Mark focuses on clarity without harshness, power without losing dynamics, and polish without compromising the character of the artist’s original vision. His goal is simple and disciplined: help records feel alive, timeless, and deeply listenable across every platform and listening space.
Album Mastering — $1,500
Please reach out to us if you would like to customize your mastering package!