Eloise Montalvo has been involved in the Austin music scene since 2021, playing shows, running sound, recording, mixing, mastering, and more. She is currently accepting work for mastering which can be discussed via email at eloise@emote.ch or via Instagram DM @eloise.rgb.

Mastering Engineer Credits

Sample Work

[MP3 48kHz 320kbps, both normalized to -12LUFS for the sake of comparison]

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In this sample, you can notice a stark difference between the Before and After, primarily in terms of muddiness. The original source was minimally mixed on a cassette portastudio and the artist requested that some extra EQing be done to improve the audibility. A more standard master can be heard in the Bad Luck Penny EP above, however I don’t have an A/B sample available at this time.

Process & Hardware

My usual process includes some light saturation and compression, followed by a limiter and clipper. I adjust each of these stages according to the genre and artist notes. My hardware includes a pair of Kali Audio LP-UNFs and when mastering for tape, a TEAC A-550RX. Otherwise I work solely in-box and make sanity checks with QSC K12.2s and a couple of smaller low-quality speakers.