Make your recording sound like your group.
Mixing and mastering for quartets, choruses, and vocal ensembles, with a singer's ear and an engineer's experience.
Discuss Your ProjectYour music deserves to sound like you.
A great mix shouldn't erase the character of your group. It should bring out the things that make your performance special.
Nathan has experience mixing and mastering learning tracks as well as finished commercial recordings. His work includes CARA Award-winning albums by ClassRing and Double Date, along with work for groups including Quorum and Lady A Cappella.
The goal is simple: natural, polished recordings that represent your group at its best.
Bring the tracks together.
Mixing brings the individual tracks together into a cohesive recording.
It involves balancing voices and instruments, shaping tone, creating depth and space, and making sure every part contributes to the finished recording.
Polish the finished mix.
Mastering is the final stage of the production process.
It focuses on the finished mix as a whole, refining its overall tone, dynamics, loudness, and consistency so it translates well across different listening environments.
Not sure what your project needs? That's okay. We'll figure it out together.
We know what singers are listening for.
Vocal music has its own challenges. Balance matters. Intonation matters. Blend matters. And sometimes the most important part of a mix is knowing when not to change something.
Nathan's experience as a performer, arranger, and audio engineer gives him a different perspective on the recording process. The goal isn't to make your group sound like someone else. It's to make your group sound like your group on its best day.
Let's make it sound its best.
Tell us what you're working on and we'll talk through your project, what you need, and how we can help.
Contact Johnston MusicHear the work.
A couple of examples from Nathan's mixing and mastering work.