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Afe offers an audio mastering service to bands, labels, individuals, etc. who wish to have their own music professionally mastered for production at very friendly prices.

about mastering
Mastering is the final step in music creation and is highly recommended before having your music pressed on CD/vinyl or duplicated on CD-R.
It ensures that the material is cohesive and that the sound quality is fully optimized.
meet the "master"...
Andrea Marutti, a.k.a. The Afeman, is the one in charge of mastering. He has about fifteen years of experience in creating electronic / experimental music with many projects including the acclaimed Dark Ambient act Amon, Never Known, Lips Vago and more.
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During the last ten years he has published on Afe countless releases of electronic / experimental music created by a lot of international musicians.
Althought his work was left uncredited most of the times for different reasons, he has mastered more than one hundred records including most of Afe releases: Here's a short list for your reference:
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- Aidan Baker: "Dog Fox Gone to Ground"
- Bestia Centauri: "The Antediluvian Earth"
- Camusi: "Camusi"
- De Fabriek: "Quatro-Erogenic-Occupy Theme's Part II"
- Dronæment: "Yr" / "Allein... Unter Menschen" / "Ezoterick Muzick"
- Frog Pocket: "Neck" / "Caric Kils"
- H2S: "Proteus Soundtracks"
- Krell "Electronic Music of Dendera"
- Madame P: "Pneuma" / "Spellbound"
- Maeror Tri: "Peak Experience"
- Mindmap: "Plochy"
- Ninht Desert: "Different Trouble Experience of Twilight" / "Black Session" / "Zone"
- Ovum: "Eld"
- Punck: "Nowhere Campfire Tapes"
- Raffaele Serra: "Theta Experience" / "Europe Endless" / "Le spectre de la rose"
- Sacher-Pelz/ M.B.: "Clerzphase"
- Sam & Valley: "Stupid Love or Smart Laugh"
- Steve Brand: "Awakensong"
- Subinterior: "The Chrysalis Secret"
- Tam Quam Tabula Rasa: "Laborobiginis"
- Telepherique: "Hörspiele"
- Telepherique + Maurizio Bianchi: "Zehn Tage (Touka)" / "The House of Mourning"
- True Colour Of Blood: "The Significance of Secrecy"
- Ur: "Triadic Memories"
/ "t.b.a." / "t.b.a."
- A.A.V.V.: "No Abiding Places" / "Lab12 #1" / "Lab12 #2"
our service
Your music will be mastered using different softwares and techniques depending on the style and condition of the original tracks. Our service includes the following actions: file transfer, bit/sample rate conversion, noise reduction, hum removal, clicks and crackles removal, clipping and distortion removal, dc offset correction, equalization, stereo enhancement, compression and limiting, volume fluidity, general editing (fade-ins/outs, cross-fades, tracks order).
price list
Prices are the following:
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Audio mastering up to 24 minutes (includes all the aforementioned actions, 2 audio masters on CD-R, 1 data master on DVD+R, registered shipping) |
75,00 |
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Audio mastering for every additional minute (up to 78 minutes in total) |
1,50 each |
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Audio transfer from Dat, Minidisc, Vinyl and Cassette up to 24 minutes |
€ 25,00 |
Audio transfer for every additional minute |
€ 0,50 each |
some details
Of course we accept any style of music, your source material can be sent to us in the following ways:
- by post as an audio CD-R;
- by post as a data CD-R / DVD-R / DVD+R (.wav and .aiff files are preferred);
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by e-mail via yousendit or ftp upload.
You may pay online using PayPal (fees will be added to your total) or mail in the payment in the form of cash (at your own risk) or make a money order.
Turnaround time is about 1-3 weeks, please note that payment must be received in full before the delivery of the final master.
Special conditions will be applied for multiple masters and to returning customers.
If you need more details or if you want to request our mastering service please don't hesitate to get in touch with us at:

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