Both Fluid’s engineers have had a great deal of experience working with back catalogue and have garnered praise from both the collector’s community and artists themselves for their work on classic material by artists such as The Kinks, Fleetwood Mac, UB40 and Caravan. Tim and Nick were also responsible for remastering a great deal of the celebrated Trojan Records catalogue, a challenging enterprise which frequently involved comparing a range of sources for each song before usually going back to the original Jamaican 7 inch singles to get the most vibrant and natural sound, whenever the original tapes were not available.

Fluid Mastering can work from legacy production formats such as analogue ¼” and ½” tape or even vinyl and cassette. For restoration work such as removing mains hum and buzz, clicks, crackles and dropouts etc. we have an extensive suite of CEDAR™ tools including their top of the range workstation, the CEDAR Cambridge as well as the aforementioned Re-Touch. We also have the facilities and experience to bake tapes in-house should that prove to be necessary as a result of sticky-shed syndrome. If you’re a record company with material in your archive that you’d like to put out but you’re not too sure of the quality, chuck it our way because we can iron out all sorts of audio problems; it’s what we do.

While archive projects can be time-consuming, we understand that budgets vary. We’ve delivered outstanding results on some extremely tight budgets. Preserving musical heritage is a responsibility we take seriously, but we also know how to be pragmatic. Tell us about your project and we’ll tailor the job to suit your needs – giving your archive a real sonic advantage at a price that works for you.