In 2000 Western Star Studio augmented it's services by opening a mastering suite. Our suite is regularly used by labels including; Cherry Red, Anagram, Righteous records, Step 1 music, Complete music, Crazy Love, Soul Music.com, Big Break, Double Snazzy, R.P.M. Circle A, Nervous Records, Raucous Records, Fury records, Pink 'n' Black records, Lemon Recordings and many more. We have the very latest mastering technology which enables us to edit, restore and process your tracks, producing the very highest end-product possible. We are also able to burn ISRC codes into your releases.

We have mastered over 2000 commercially released albums to date, including many household names.

A CD release we mastered here for Cherry Red records called Pillows & Prayers won a 2009 MOJO music award!!!!

Highlights of some of our mastering jobs include albums by:

• Holly Johnson
• Sheena Easton
• The Three Degrees (2 albums)
• Captain Sensible (2 albums)
• Janet Jackson
• The Pointer Sisters (2 albums)
• Fun Boy Three
• The Colourfield (2 albums)
• Cutting Crew (2 albums)
• Patsy Cline
• Benny Hill
• Waylon Jennings
• Mick Ronson
• Natalie Cole
• Leo Sayer (2 albums)
• The Buzzcocks
• Classix Nouveaux (2 albums)
• Marc Almond (3 albums)
• Petula Clark
• The Stray Cats
• Nico (2 albums)
• Shakin' Stevens (2 albums)
• Matchbox
• Cabaret Voltaire (2 albums)
• Graham Parker (3 albums)
• Air Supply
• Dandelion records (the singles box set)
• and lots, lots more

 We can master CD's from a wide variety of source material including:

• Vinyl
  we have the very best processing equipment available to minimise pops, crackles, rumbles and scratches
• Quarter inch open-reel masters or cassette
• DAT
• CD
• VHS or DVD
• Mini disc