About
Years of Professional
Experience
Steve Brown is a Syracuse, NY based audio engineer who has been engineering and playing music for most of his life. From bunkering down in the studio for years to now professionally mixing and mastering, Steve has always been passionate about music and audio. As a multi instrumentalist and vocalist, Steve brings vast musical experience to every project.
Notable projects include: Future - GRAMMY's (off of Drake's Views) - Assistant Engineer Stove God Cooks - Reasonable Drought - Recording, Mixing National Geographic - Voiceover Recording Sig Roy - Summer's Over EP - Mixing, Mastering The Good Years - Homesick - Recording, Mixing Gary Carpentier - Lucid - Recording, Production, Mixing Estée Lauder - Voiceover Recording "The Society" Season One (Netflix Original) - ADR "The Binge" - Hulu Original Movie - Vocal Recording Sakhari - “Who Cares” - Recording, Mixing, Mastering
Testimonials
“I’ve worked in a lot of different studios, Steve is the best engineer I’ve ever worked with. He is quick, professional, and everything always sounds great” — Gary Ryan Blair
“Previously, getting a song I mixed or produced mastered felt like a big game of tug-of-war between the clients, mastering engineer, and I. Steve masters my mixes in a way that leaves everyone completely happy, on time and on budget.” — Shane Patterson (Producer, Engineer)
“Steve is extremely professional and the masters always turn out great. Price is amazing too and he always takes feedback well to get projects done efficiently and fast” — Cait Devin
“Whenever my music is in Steve’s hands, I know I’m going to love the results. He listens to my ideas, but also offers new ones and does a great job of pushing me out of my comfort zone as an artist.“ — Alex Goettel (The Byways)
Mixing
What is mixing?
Mixing is the process of taking the individual elements of your song and putting them together in a way that is pleasing to the ear. Recording is a very important part of the music production process, but a commercial ready song needs a quality mix and master to sound competitive with all the other great music coming out every day. In the mixing process, things like equalization, compression, reverb, delay, and other effects will be added to each separate piece that makes up the song.
What is included with mixing?
Mixes from Brown Mix & Master include whatever it takes to get your song as best as it can possibly be. This includes all necessary audio editing, like tuning, timing edits, breath removal, etc. Every song is different and will therefore have different needs to become a great finished product. We pride ourselves on an unlimited revision process to ensure that you are happy with how it sounds every time.
Mastering
What is mastering?
Once mixing is complete, Mastering is the art of adding processing to your final mix as a whole, giving it that final polish, and ensures that it is ready for release. Specific things that might happen during mastering include but are not limited to: improving tone, dialing in ideal loudness, metadata, and track spacing.
The goal during mastering is to ensure a balanced sound, a controlled dynamic range, and a commercial level of loudness. It’s also vital to establish consistency across each track on a project of 2 or more songs.
