Metropolis Mastering – Supporting Music Professionals

Metropolis Mastering & Music Gateway have teamed up to provide opportunities to support new music and creative professionals.

This partnership has been formed in a bid to encourage the music industry to fairly pay the production community. Music Gateway members can access free mastering on one of their tracks when they successfully create a ‘Hire a Producer’ project on the Music Gateway system. The benefit being that artists get more choice and guidance to work with the best possible producers for their project and will also receive the highest quality audio, having had their track mastered from the best engineers in the business.

“Metropolis are pleased to be supporting artists with their new creative projects. We hope that through this collaboration with Music Gateway, more artists can benefit from professional mastering & production work.”
Dan Baldwin Mastering Manager at Metropolis Mastering

Both Metropolis and Music Gateway are part investing in the opportunity to ensure that the engineers behind the scenes are also paid fairly as well as the producers. The budgets have been advised by the Music Producers Guild (MPG) who are also supporting the campaign.

“I’m pleased to see an initiative to support fair pay for production work, it’s something we strongly believe in at The MPG. Providing a better way for artists to find & hire professionals is a definite step in the right direction so I’m glad to see Music Gateway and Metropolis Studios join forces to make this happen.”
Mick Glossop Executive Director of The Music Producers Guild

The campaign sees Metropolis Studios strengthening its stance on offering opportunities to the worldwide music community and creating a more level working environment. This partnership should see artists and bands further their careers and create better quality content for themselves and consumers to enjoy.

“We’re always working on helping and improving our members opportunities and pathways. It’s invaluable having companies like Metropolis to offer these opportunities in a way that is productive for them, us and producers. We’re serious about creating a level playing field for people in the industry and if our members are too, they’ll take on board the message.”
Jonathan Bond Brand & Product Manager at Music Gateway

Music Gateway

Music Gateway is a B2B platform, specifically designed to allow creative and music industry professionals to connect and work together in a global capacity. Developed by industry professionals from all sectors, we help break down barriers that hinder career development by empowering individuals and companies alike. Our unique software helps streamline the way people connect and progress whether this is through hiring music professionals, collaborating or using it as an A&R vehicle to find new talent.

Metropolis Mastering

Metropolis Studios, the largest independently-operated recording complex in the world, has a glorious internationally acclaimed award-winning 26 year heritage. A high profile facility from its opening year in 1989, when Queen’s Innuendo was the first album to be recorded at the studio. A listers have, and continue to do so, recorded, mixed and mastered their legendary material at the complex, including Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Madonna, U2 and Michael Jackson. Some of the most recent renowned global successes including Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black and Adele’s 25 have been created at Metropolis.

With 19 studios, including 2 live rooms, writing room and screening room, it is the world’s only recording complex that includes recording, mixing, mastering, video production, label services and publishing under one roof.

If you have any questions or are looking to get involved, please head to the Music Gateway portal.