Når jeg mikser og mastrer så jobber jeg med mange stilarter, fra pop/rock til metal, til techno og chillout.
Under så finner du lenker til noen flash-player'e på min engelske web, i tillegg til lenker til kunde-webber i en variasjon av musikk-stiler.
Gi meg beskjed om du kikker etter eksempler på musikkstiler som ikke er her - eller - du kan også om du ønsker det, få en ett-minutts gratis test på en av dine egne låter, slik at du kan høre hvordan det vil høres ut med miksing eller mastering fra NFL Produksjoner.

Noen liker det med lite diskant, og noen ønsker et lysere uttrykk, noen liker det høyt og bråkete, og andre liker det dynamisk og åpent.
Send meg filene dine og fortell meg hvordan du liker det, så skal jeg hjelpe deg til å oppnå dine visjoner for musikken din. 

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Diverse stil-arter - kundelenker:
Her er noen lenker til noen kundesider, med musikkspillere, samt noen MySpace lenker.
Dette er et utvalg for å vise frem forskjellige stiler, jeg har forsøkt å få med en eller to i hver stil.

For Bluestown Records 2012

Trond Ytterbø - Morragry (pop-folk)

(arbeid jeg gjorde: miksing & mastering, og noe opptak)

Spotify-lenke:

Trond Ytterbø – Morragry, på Spotify

Woman in Blues (2012)
Blues/gospel

Masse bra anmeldelser i aviser over hele Norge
(arbeid jeg gjorde: opptak, miksing og mastering)

Women In Blues/ Rita Engedalen&Margit Bakken – Broken Soul Blues - på Spotify

For Nordic Records og Haakon Graf; 'License to Chill'
 http://www.nordicrecords.no/forside/artister/haakon-graf/
 

For Crow's Nest Management, Los Angeles, USA, - mastering the album 'The Longest Kiss Goodnight' of Trinidad based indie-rock band 'Jointpop' released on Antstreet Records in Germany:

http://www.myspace.com/jointpop
 

Eliza Newman on Myspace (mastering of album, singles and EP) 2009-2010

Style: Indie/rock
With two radio hits on Iceland from that album

For Bluestown Records, Norway, the production, mixing and mastering of the debut album of Kim Rune Hagen, of Norwegian Idol Famem, 2009.
Link to a player with some previews 
http://www.bluestownrecords.com/KimRuneHagen/

Style: Pop/rock with elements from Soul and Rhythm and Blues
Main page: http://www.bluestownrecords.com/

For Nordic Records and Glenn Main Henriksen; mastered albums:
Style: Synth-pop/Electronica/ 
http://www.nordicrecords.no/forside/artister/glenn-main/ 

Arctic Treasures (2010)
 

Electronic Secret (2009)

'Half Tiger' on their Myspace page (mastered singles and EP) 2007-2008-2009-2010

Style: Indie-rock-elektronika 

— Hey Njal!

Thanks for your amazing services, the results are everything I hoped for!
Just want to say thank you once again for your wonderful contribution..
your hard work, your patience, your honesty,your creativity..I must say it's outstanding!!!
..and I will definitely recommend you to anyone I can.

10+

Much respect

Adrianno, Romania. December 21st. 2009
http://www.myspace.com/adriannob

Style: House/Techno
Work done: mastered singles and EP's

Wormparade on Myspace  (Mastered album two albums, one in 2008 and one in 2010)

Style: Goth-metal
— The guys were very happy with the preview, 
- they said it sounds great everywhere they play the cd.
Wormparade (Spain)
March 2008

Pascal Louis-Rose (mastered singles and EP's) 2009-2010
http://www.myspace.com/pascallouisrose

Progressive house/Trance/Club

Juliet Lyons on Myspace (Mixed and Mastered album) 2008

Style: Chillout/NewAge

 


— Please receive my BIG CONGRATS and so from the rest of the people supporting me.
I will let the world know how good you are, and the quality of your job.

 Lucky Gaucho  , Madrid, Spain, March 25th 2010
http://luckygaucho.net
http://www.ReverbNation.com/LuckyGaucho
(Mixed and mastered single)
Number one on Reverbnation, Madrid, in early June 2010 
(Style: Amerikana, Country) 

Supermarine Spitfire  (mastering of album) 2009

Style: Retro-rock
Nordic Records

Medium Kitchen (mastering of album) 2008

Style: Pop
Nordic Records

A release for the label 'Grammofon':Margit Bakken, on the other side (mastering of album) www.myspace.com/margitbakken - 2009

Style: Blues/Bluegrass

Check out London based pop-punk band 'Kids Love Lies' on Myspace (mastered singles in 2009 and 2010 EP)

Style: Pop-punk-rock

They where the 'daily download' in NME in the summer of 2009:
http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=122&p=5961&more=1&c=1

For Nordic Records og Lars Wagle, 'Keep on Walking'
http://www.nordicrecords.no/forside/utgivelser/keep-on-walking/
 

4 Puzzle Music on Myspace (mastered singles) 2008-2009-2010

Style: Underground minimalistic techno

—  We are very satisfacted...
— you've made a great job!!"
Fabrizio & Dario Selli, Italian dance producers
March 2008

Celeste - Mixing and Mastering EP (three of the songs, including the chart debut - 'Panic Attack') 2009

Style: Rock
Released by Nordic Records
The song Panic Attack entered at Number 13 on the Official Norwegian Sales Chart - Vg-lista Topp 20, for week 21, 2009.

Band page at Nordic Records:

http://www.nordicrecords.no/frontpage/artists/celeste/

I'm also mentioned on Nordic Records partner page:
http://www.nordicrecords.no/frontpage/partners/

Looking for a style not covered here?

This is just some of the songs and albums I have either mastered or mixed & mastered, and used as examples of styles I have worked with.
If you are looking for a style not covered here, you can send me an email with description on what you're after, and I'll see if I can send you a link to an artist/band I have mastered or mixed, in that style.

More music? You can listen to the full length of my second solo album, just follow the link below:

The Nordic Chillout Album, my second solo album - 2007

From this album I have had both national radio-play, and several placements in commercials and TV, with several placements in the Norwegian TV2 'God Morgen Norgen - Ukens Pilkast' as the program where songs from this album were used in every show.


And also, if you want a 'power-nap', I invite you to check out the binaural beats meditation album I made a couple of years ago.

Relaxation album (with binaural beats) for deep relaxation/mediation - 2007

And here's a link to my 'Music for Film & TV' player:

NFL - Music for Film & TV

More customer testimonials:

?At Nordic Records we use NFL Produksjoner for mixing and mastering. Both we and the artists are very happy with the results. Tor Eriksen, Nordic Records, Oslo, Norway, January 12th, 2009

Studios

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My studio is situated at 1.st floor in Building 66, in Hydroparken—a creativity and technology center in Notodden, Telemark, Norway.

My old studio had a fire in 2008, and all my equipment —collected over a period of over 20 years—was totally damaged by the fire and the smoke. When I build my new studio, I decided to go for a full digital solution. So, it is brand new, and completely based on digital technology, and with the help of ProTools and Samplitude, monitors and sub-bass from Adam, plugins from Massey, Trillium Lane, Sonnox Oxford, Izotope and Waves, among others, —and convolution technology like the Focusrite Liquid Mix, I can provide you with mixes that will make your songs shine, and make you smile.

I can't guarantee you a chart-listing or a record-deal, however, one song I Mixed & Mastered (with digital-only technology) in 2009, reached No. 13 on the Official Norwegian Singles Sales Chart, so with the results I deliver, it is possible.

As you know, 'It's not the gear—it's the ear!' 
Still, there might be times where one would want analog processing. Letting the drums hit real 2 inch tape, and processing your vocal through a real Fairchild 660?

If you for any reason would want to have your songs processed by the 'real thing', I also work from the locally famous and award-winning Notodden studio 'Juke Joint Studio', doing recording, mixing, and processing.
Recordings I've done there, includes recording the 77-year old blues-legend 'Lazy Lester' from Louisiana, the summer of 2010, for his upcoming album.
The studio is in the neighboring building from my own studio, literally 50 meters away, and they have an large amount of famous analog gear, including a Fairchild 660, 2x Teletronics LA2A, Urei 1176 LN, Urei 1178, RCA BA6A, 2x Pultec MEQ5, a Pultec EQP1A, EMT 140 mono, EMT 140 stereo, and lots of more, including the great sounding mixing board, the Auditronics 501 'Son of 36 Grands' with the inscription 'Property of Stax Studio, Memphis' — yes, it looks like it used to be in the Stax Studio back in the old days ...
And a great microphone collection, including a fab sounding RCA 44 bx, two RCA 77 dx, an original Neumann U47, a Neumann U87, and the usual Shures and Sennheisers, and some Røde mics.
And; a very large recording space with 5 meters to the roof! 
Oh—and did I mention the super sounding MCI 2-inch 24-track machine? 
For that tape sound, here we got real tape! 

Contact me with info about your project and what you are looking for, and I will quote you a price.
Visit the studio-pages at  www.jukejointstudio.com

 

You can also look at a video recorded there in May 2010, made by the National Norwegian Broadcast Company, NRK, it's available at their web page.
They made a lengthy radio programme about the studio, and they also made an article about it on their web, and they also made a video from some live blues playing in the studio.

I was the engineer, and you can see me shortly in the beginning of the video, and I'm also quoted on the web page:  http://www.nrk.no/kultur_og_underholdning/1.7174621

Njal Frode Lie posing in Juke Joint Studio January 2009
Photo by Morten Gjerde; http://www.mortengjerde.com/

Prisliste

Mastering

Mastering av en sang: Kr 400 ink mva (kr 320,- eks mva) 
Velg antall i neste trinn, etterat du har blitt redirigert til Paypal.

Miksing

Velg antall i neste trinn, etterat du har blitt redirigert til Paypal.

Miksing av en sang, kr 1500 ink mva (kr 1200,- eks mva)

Dersom du er interessert i hjelp til å gjøre ferdig en sang i radio-kvalitet, eller andre produksjonstjenester, ta kontakt med meg for en uforpliktende prat, og et pristilbud.

Fastpris på album.

Du kan bruke price-quote siden for å få tilbud på miksing av flere sanger i en pakkeløsning, med mastering og oppsett av albumet på slutten.

Do you need some extra production to make your song radio-ready? 
Also other services available. 

Overview in a nut-shell 

1) Upload
2) Pay
3) Receive results

If you want something changed or done differently, you will get revisions until you are totally happy with the results. (not for mixing involving analog eqipment, see above for more info)
 

How many revisions would be normal?
For mastering I have a very close to 100% acceptance rate of the first delivery.
For mixing, I expect to do at least one revision, sometimes there will be a handful.

How many revisions can I get if?
If you would like changes, you'll get revisions until you are totally happy.

Can I get a trial?
Want a trial first?
Sure, no problem, you can get a free one-minute preview of mixing or mastering, if you'd like.
Just upload your song and send me an email and tell me you'd like to have a preview.
I'll come back to you with a date for when it'll be ready, usually I will be able to have the preview ready in just some few days.
A free preview is not available for analog mixing, or for analog processing/digital mixing. 

Payment
Payment via PayPal — the 'Buy Now' button will transfer you to PayPal for safe and secure payment.
You don't need a PayPal account to use PayPal, you can use a credit card if you prefer to, or if you don't have a PayPal account.
If you native currency is different from Euro, Paypal will use the current daily exchange rate converting from the price in Euro.

You can also pay via international direct bank transfers.
Contact me for the bank details.

Need a quote for a mastering or mixing a full album?
Or perhaps you're looking for analog mixing, or at least some analog processing?
You can use the price quote form and get a custom quote for your songs or project.
If you're looking for analog mixing, please specify if you'd like to have some or all tracks go through the 2-inch tape-machine.
Generally speaking, analog mixing will be about twice the price, and with no free previews.

Other questions?
You might want to check out the FAQ for Frequently Asked Questions.

Online digital distribution with no setup-cost and no yearly cost!
Through my co-operation with an online distribution company, I can offer my mixing, mastering, and production customers digital distribution to iTunes, Spotify, Amazon mp3, eMusic 7digital, Rhapsody, Junodownload, Lala, Nokia Music Store, last.fm, CDON.COM, DanceFuel, and many more.

Norwegian customers
Since NFL Produksjoner is a Norwegian company, customers living in Norway will have to pay the Norwegian VAT, MVA, and thus must use this page for ordering and paying/ Norske kunder; bestill her

Other Payments
Go to the other-payments page for sending me money for an agreed upon amount, for your project.

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This is an article I wrote for Recording.org in February 2010

The link to the article over at Recording.org is this

And here's the article:

What is mastering? And do you need it?


These two questions tend to arise again in music-forums on the internet.
They are answered again and again, in slightly different ways, and here's my take on it:

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Mastering is about a couple of thing;

1. Adjustment of an individual song, of the stereo-mix, altering, and possibly enhancing the sound and the perceived volume loudness
2. Adjustment of the sound of several songs making them fit together
3. Making the song or songs ready for distribution by trimming the songs, making fades and entering the track-indexes, ISRC, cd-text and such things
4. Quality control

More about #1
There are two main paths of thinking regarding this; one is to mix to the best of ones abilities, and expect a sound enhancing stage—mastering—to make sure the sound is good enough and nothing is forgotten or overseen, sound-wise.

The other path is to mix the song in a way where one tries to make the mix sound exactly as one wants it, at the perceived volume loudness as one wants.

In mastering, such a track would make a 'direct transfer', that is, without processing, just the trimming and the indexes and such.
Some mixers like the idea of having a secondary sound-enhancing stage, and some like to aim for mixing it with the final sound in mind.

Well, maybe I should just use a SM57...?


More about #2
When making an EP, album, or collection of tracks, one has to make them fit together.
Even if one is trying to mix in such a way as to make the mix the final sound of the tracks, differences in mixing from one day to the other will often make it a little different, maybe a little bit difference in the bass or in the treble area, and so, when putting them together, one will have to adjust them a little to make sure the transition from one track to the other goes fluently and the tracks having a similar sound.

Digital only here...

Mostly analog here...


More about #3
Trimming the start point, leaving the necessary blank lead-in (giving cd-players some spin-up and start-up time) and making the fade-outs, and a suitable pause between tracks. Entering ISRC information.
Also, if one wants cd-text; entering the information, and finally, making the deliverance format; cd- ready wav-formats, a wav/cue image for home burning, or a DDP-image for transfer to a cd-making factory.

More about #4
Making sure there are nothing wrong with the final processed result.

Delicate treble from Adam ribbon tweeters


So do you need mastering?
Well, if you are doing just one song and you're not planning on making a physical cd-single out of it, there are really no technical need for mastering; you could just mix the song exactly as you wanted it, and — if mixing down to 24-bit—dither it down to the standard 16-bit, 44.1kHz format afterwards.
If you're good at mixing, this would be it, nothing more to do.

So why then is it so common to think that mastering is something necessary, something one needs to do after a mix?
Well, if the mix sounds perfect, there's nothing to do with it, just leaving it alone.
Still, often it is possible to enhance a song sonically in the mastering stage, sometimes just a nuance, sometimes a very large enhancement.

When tuning bass, you gotta hear it first, so get out those subs!





More about mastering and sound enhancing...

Tools of the trade
The tools of the trade are equalizers, compressors, limiters, and distortion of some kind.

As to compressors and distortion devices; You can think of them as different spices, just like in the kitchen.
Is the Hi-hats salt enough?
Enough garlic here?
What about a little dash of chili for that guitar?
And most people doing mastering have some 'secret trick' they would like to keep for themselves...
Talking about food again, that would be something like using cinnamon on beef or chicken, tastes fabulously, and still most people don't know about it, and no; it doesn't taste like cinnamon, really, it transforms into something new.
Every compressors leave a 'spice' mark on the material, changing something else than just the dynamics, they're adding a 'flavor' to the sound.


The most important things? Good ears, great room, and experience.

The room is the most important thing, besides the ears, and that is often said.
Still, why is the room so important?

The point is, speakers vary by some few decibel from one type of speaker to another.
An untreated room, on the other hand, can vary much more, with dips and peaks at up to 10-20 decibel in some areas.
So; if you're mixing in a room with a resonance peaking at 200Hz, you would probably cut off lots and lots in that area, leaving your mix to thin, when played in other rooms and equipment.

Most playback equipment are optimized to play back current sounding music, and if played back in a room that is not sounding too good, the sound might have some peaks and valleys, still, all music played back in that room with that equipment would have the same valleys and peaks, where as a song mixed in a not-so-good room, compensating for dips or valleys in the frequency response of the mixing room, if this playback room also is un-balanced, any combined unbalanced adjustments together with the unbalanced room, will make that song sound not good in that room.

So, if your room is good, and you trust your ears: as a mixer, why not aim for making your mixes sound like you would like them to sound, without depending on some 'black art' or kind of magic aka the mastering stage?
Still, even if you aim for this, it will be very unusual if you will be able to mix all songs for an album over several days and get them to sound as an album when played after each other.
However, in the adjustment phase, it might be the songs will need just some tiny adjustments in the bass and treble area to fit together, so that you don't need any 'spice' to enhance the sound.


Other thoughts...

The ears
Having cleaned your ears lately?
People talk on and on about speakers, and how they sound, when the elephant in the room is the ears, both the cleanliness of them, and the shape.
Try for yourself; listen to some music and cup your hands behind your ears, you will notice the sound changes dramatically.

And cleaning, how do you clean your ears?
Using cotton-ear buds?
That will actually press the ear-wax tighter into your ears...
The best thing to use for cleaning?
Hydrogen peroxide (3%).
You can buy it in a regular store; Note; remember to not buy anything else than the 3 % solution, as anything stronger would not be safe.
Oh, and don't do this if you have any holes in the eardrums.
For use; either pour the liquid into one ear at a time, get some help from a friend, or use a syringe.
Or, even more easy; soak a cotton ear bud with the liquid, and put it into your ear.
Repeat for the other side.
You will hear some sparkling sound as the ear are getting cleared, and after a while, the sparkles will drop in intensity.
Dip again, and put the buds into the ears, and repeat.
Then, afterwards, you will notice a much clearer hearing, with fresher treble.
Easy and effective!
And almost free.


Hydrogen Peroxide; Best tool for cleaning the ears, remember to get the 3% solution


Temporary Threshold Shift
One more thing about the hearing: many people like the idea of listening on several levels, perhaps soft for awhile, and then very loud for some seconds.
This is a practice that doesn't take into account how the ear operates, and the Temporary Threshold Shift.
After being exposed to loud noises/sounds, it will take quite some time before the ears are back to the normal level of linearity of the hearing.
Sometimes just some few hours, but it can last up to a day or so, depending on the level and time exposed to the sound/noise.
In extreme cases with very loud noise/music, it has been tests where it left dips up to 13dB in the 4kHz area, for 24 hours.
Imagine mixing and adjusting sound with that ear that day...
'Temporary threshold shift' is the name for it.
Google it.

Think about this; imagine you work in a dark room with some delicate things.
Then suddenly you go out in a very sunny field for some seconds, and then you go back down to work.
As you know, it will take more than some few moments before your eyes will be able to see clearly there again.

Same thing for the ears, so if you are going to work, keep the volume down, and don't do the 'play loud for some seconds' thing; sound wise a very bad idea...

Summary of tips for mixing
So when mixing; make sure your room sounds good, read some articles on how to sound-enhance and balance your room, and improve the acoustic.
Make sure to carefully place your speakers and your sub-bass, as the placement has also very much to say for the sound.
Don't listen to the mix loud, not even for just 5 seconds, you will not be able to hear good and balanced afterwards.
Get a habit of cleaning your ears in a non-intrusive and effective way, I recommend using Hydrogen peroxide.


Keep the good music flowing!