Real Ears, Real Gear, Real Experience

The art of mastering is about objective, highly trained listening—bringing fresh ears, deep technical knowledge, and decades of experience to your project. A great mastering engineer enhances clarity, impact, and emotion while preparing your final master for every platform, from streaming to physical release.

Founded in 2001 by Tom Volpicelli, a veteran engineer with over 30 years of professional recording, mixing, and mastering experience, The Mastering House has become a trusted partner for artists around the world. Tom’s credits include work with independent artists and legendary names such as Jerry Lee Lewis, The Who, Eric Clapton, and David Bowie for nationally syndicated the radio program The King Biscuit Flower Hour.

For more than two decades, The Mastering House has helped hundreds of artists unlock the full potential of their music—bringing out the detail, depth, and energy that makes a record unforgettable.

Mastering is the final creative and technical step before your music meets the world. It’s where the overall sound is refined, balanced, and elevated. If you’re ready to take your project to the next level, we’re here to help you make it shine.

PROCESS

Personal attention and service to each individual artist and project is what makes our studio stand out among the rest.

Tell us about your individual style of music and approach, how the project was recorded, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the mix. With this perspective we critically listen to the recording and compare your music to any references you may feel appropriate. After listening to the complete project, we will apply a customized chain of audio processing to enhance the overall frequency balance and dynamics of the album bringing out the parts of the mix that contribute most to the song and style of music. This is a cyclical process; working together with the artist to create the intended goal.

SERVICES

  • Equalization for better clarity and consistency
  • Making volume levels competitive and consistent across the entire album
  • Editing of content
  • Provide proper spacing and fades for tracks
  • Noise removal
  • Sequencing of the songs or audio material
  • Processing to help ensure that your audio will translate well between different playback systems
  • Mastering for iTunes
  • Stem Mastering
  • MP3 tagging
  • Vinyl premastering
  • DDP assembly
  • Audio Restoration
Room Acoustics Jim Maher of Sound House Design and Sterling Modular
Monitoring Dunlavy SC-IV
Quested SB10 subs (pair)
Bryston 4B³ Amplifier
Dangerous Monitor ST-SR Monitor Controller
Analog Processing SPL Hermes Mastering Router
Custom Built Barry Porter “Net EQ”
D.W. Fearn VT-4 Tube EQ (2)
D.W. Fearn VT-7 Tube Compressor
RJR Baxandall Mastering EQ
Crane Song Ibis EQ
Chandler LTD-2 Compressor (with mastering modificatons)
Alta Moda Unicomp
Fredenstein F660 Valve Limiting Amplifier (2)
Digital Processing Weiss DS1
Weiss EQ1
Digital Converters
and Playback		 Lynx Aurora (n)
Merging Technologies HAPI
Sony PCM-R500 DAT
Analog Playback Otari MTR-12 1/2″ tape machine
Otari MX5050 1/4″
Software and Plug-ins Magix Sequoia
iZotope RX
Oeksound
DMG Audio
Leapwing Audio
FabFilter
and many others