About
Wladi Turkewitsch, the happy owner of KMS, has quite a peculiar hobby. He actually has a few but the one that mostly drags his passion is… mastering.
He achieved 30 glorious years as Broadcast Sound Engineer @ RSI (radio & TV of the Italian Switzerland), working on mobile units as production studios and has basically seen (and heard) just about anything. Sports, from soccer to the winter Olympics; talk-shows, live concerts (Mingardi, Ruggeri, even Premiata Forneria Marconi), comedies and theatre (Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo, Beppe Grillo, Enzo Jacchetti), live music festivals (featuring artists as Steps Ahead, Mike Stern, Yellowjackets and Jethro Tull, to name a few)… He even has a Grammy, earned with the production of Joe Zawinul and his Syndicate.
And now, in his spare time, he runs his mastering studio, with a view on the lake, in Contra.
Engineer
Wladi began his interest in sound as a keyboard player in local groups, using samplers, synthesizers and recording and mixing live bands. In the early 80`s he was involved as sound engineer in a private service company named Polivideo, doing tv production for various national and international networks, includind Mediaset, RAI, ABC, NBC and CBS Sports. Beginning 1996 a new start, again as sound engineer at the Swiss broadcast corporation SSR/RSI in Lugano. Involved in ENG/EFP crews, on OB vans and Studio productions. Acquiring engineering skills and expertise with production of drama, talk shows, sports, festivals and musicals with prominent artists.
Studio
The room was designed by Thomas Jouanjean for Northward Acoustics with an extended frequency response from 25Hz to 20kHz.
Consulting:
Proaudio Consulting / Francesca Bianco
Construction:
Acusticarte / Samuel Costa Bendicho, Valerio Stecca, Mario, Angelo, Giovanni
Architecture: Simone Turkewitsch
Services
Attended mastering: 120.-SFr / hour
(max. 2 people in the studio)
Digital editing: 120.- SFr / hour
Restoration: 120.- SFr / hour
- Analogue ¼” tape
- Vinyl
- Cassette
- Transfer to digital
- Mastered for iTunes MFiT
Ideally record and mix your project at 96 kHz and when you are ready for mastering,
let us know if you want an MFiT master.
Gear
- ATC 100SL Custom
- CROOKWOOD M1 Mastering Console
- BRYSTON BHA-1 Headphone amp
- SENNHEISER HD 650
- AUDEZE LCD-X
- KNIF SOMA
- KNIF EKSA
- KNIF VARI MU II
- BARRY PORTER NET EQ
- NIGHTPRO EQ 3D
- API 5500
- SPL IRON
- FOOTE P3S
- HANDY AMPS MICHELANGELO
- FOOTE CLIP SAT
- PENDULUM PL-2
- NEUMANN W491A
- WEISS DAC1 MK2
- WEISS AFI1
- FORSSELL MADA 2
- Merging HAPI
- WEISS EQ 1
- WEISS DS-1
- T.C.ELECTRONICS M6000
- WAVES L2
- WAVELAB 9 PRO
- SONIC STUDIO SOUND BLADE HD
- HARRISON MIXBUS 32C
- STUDER A80
- STUDER CD A727
- SONY DAT PCM 7050
- KORG MR 2000S 1Bit DSD
- DMG AUDIO
- FAB FILTER
- NUGEN
- PLUGIN ALLIANCE
- SIR AUDIO TOOLS
- UAD
- WAVES
Mastering info
File Format
Stereo WAV or AIFF is preferred. No MP3s
Resolution
24 bits/s
Sample Rate
44.1 kHz or higher
Use the sample rate of your original session, no gain to up-sample to 96kHz if you’ve recorded at a lower rate. Do not normalize
Plug-ins on the Master Bus
If you are using plug-ins on the master bus provide options with and without it. Limiting or clipping the master bus should always be avoided
Fades
Do not fade out the file yourself
Start and End
Leave some air at the begining and end of the track
Reference
Reference tracks for the session are welcome. If you are attending the session, we would like to have the files before the session.
Level
Don't brickwall your track please. Don't slam the levels.
Upload
Once you have completed the checkout process you will be given instructions on how to transfer your track files to us.
