SDB Mastering

SDB Mastering is a full-service mastering studio, providing attended mastering sessions and online mastering services. SDB Mastering is the mastering division of Estúdios Sá Da Bandeira, one of Portugal's largest independent recording facilities. In total, we have 3 separate studios spread across two storeys - covering over 300m2 - all built upon a late XIX century building. We have free wifi, kitchen and lounge - plus all the coffee you can handle - so if you're attending we'll make sure you'll be comfortable during your session. Our room was built from ground up to serve as a mastering studio. It's fully treated and decoupled - built in a room within a room type of configuration - all to ensure a quiet and accurate monitoring environment. Along with a top of the line monitoring system by Focal and acoustically neutral furniture by Sterling Modular, our room provides a revealing listening experience, key to what a mastering studio should all be about. Regarding our tools, SDB Mastering is outfitted with a mix of custom analogue gear built by our staff, high-end equipment from known manufacturers and various digital tools from brands such as Prism Sound, elysia, TDR, DMG Audio, Sonoris, u-he, Voxengo, NuGen Audio, FabFilter and iZotope. We can work with both analogue and digital sources, including 1/4" tape, DSD sources up to 5.8MHz, PCM audio files up to 192kHz or even other older formats such as ADAT and DAT tapes. All engineering work at our mastering room is done by Miguel Pinheiro Marques, who was the owner and mastering engineer at Bender Mastering Studio before partnering with Estúdios Sá Da Bandeira and joining SDB Mastering. Besides his work as a mastering engineer, Miguel is also the author of "Sistemas e Técnicas de Produção Áudio", a pro audio book written in Portuguese. He also collaborates as an author for pro audio magazines such as "AudioXpress" and previously "Produção Áudio", doing mostly gear reviews.