Welcome to David Blackman Hiltongrove Mastering, North Essex's premier audio mastering studio. Tucked away on a farm not far from Stansted Airport, here you'll find a mastering studio dedicated to giving you a great sounding master every time.

Audio Mastering is the final part of the recording chain. It's the process of balancing your tracks with equalisation and dynamics processing, removing any unwanted blemishes from your music, and presenting the project in its best light. Your audio mastering sessions are the last chance to get everything right, and that's why you shouldn't trust the job to just anyone.

A mastering engineer since 1996, David Blackman has worked on thousands of releases in that time. Whether it's a simple editing and compiling job, or a full blown album master involving B-sides, single edits and vinyl parts, you can be sure of the same attention to detail and the highest quality results. Only the best gear will come near your audio in our mastering studio, and the results will be reproduced through industry standard monitors in a highly treated listening environment.

So please take a look around our site, and when you're ready, get in touch and we'll make a record.