Engineer

Antoine Valton is a mastering engineer working from Centraldubs mastering studio in Bern, Switzerland, as well as from his personal studio, depending on your specific needs and budget.

He focuses on delivering the best possible sound for your music, whether you are an established music label or an independent artist and across all musical genres.

Before mastering, Antoine spent ten years as a live sound engineer and technical advisor in France, gaining valuable experience in the field. He holds a degree in live sound engineering from the European Technological Institute for Music Professions in Le Mans, where he graduated in 2014.

Antoine is a member of the Audio Engineering Society, constantly exploring and advancing his expertise in all areas of sound engineering.

Beyond his professional life, Antoine is a passionate music enthusiast. He enjoys exploring various music styles, collecting vinyl records, DJing, and experimenting with modular synthesizers.

He is also a key organizer of an annual independent music festival in France.

What is Mastering ?

After recording and mixing, mastering is the last stage in music production before music distribution. It is a polishing and quality control of the work that has been done up to this point.

The aim is to obtain the best possible sound for the medium for which it is intended, whether digital via streaming platforms such as Apple Music, Tidal or Spotify, or for a physical medium such as vinyl or CD.

The audio must also be of the best possible quality, whatever the location and the broadcast medium used (home listening system, car radio, club, headphones) in order to engage the listener.

It’s a complex task and an art of compromise, because unlike mixing, which targets particular instruments or groups, here every decision affects the whole signal. Critical listening to the source through a reproduction chain that is as faithful as possible is therefore essential.

During a mastering session, the mastering engineer will pay particular attention to the balance of the frequency spectrum, dynamics and stereophonic image. He or she will make the necessary corrections using carefully chosen, high-precision tools (equalizer, compressor, de-esser, limiter), digital or analog, only if necessary and in the interest of the music. It is also during mastering that the loudness will be set according to the music’s potential and in keeping with the musical genre.

Finally, he will bring cohesion to all the tracks, sequencing (spacing) them, applying the necessary fade-in and fade-out and entering the metadata in the files.