Clients

Chris Hudec has mastered over 800 projects for independent artists.  This is a partial list of clients and quotes from clients.  If you'd like to be listed/linked on this page, please let me know.

These are my most "famous" Mastering Clients:

Bubbles and Cheesecake is the collaboration between the GRAMMY®-winning and Emmy and Tony nominated composer Allee Willis (Bubbles), and Holly Palmer (Cheesecake), a beautiful and soulful singer/artist who has released many CDs as a solo artist and toured with Gnarls Barkley for most of 2006.

Donna Kay won for "Best Producer/Engineer" in the 2006 Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards

Eekwol Winner of the "Best Rap or Hip Hop Album" in the 2005 Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards

Mission Failed as heard in the movie I'll Believe You

Animated Coochie Wonders as heard in the movie Dimples
 

The following are some quotes from our Mastering Clients:

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"A Yo, only 2 weeks after releasing a Demo CD mastered by Chris Hudec, I was signed through Noise Pollution Records. The compliments were continually coming in about the professionalism of the sound. Working with Chris was like a collaboration with the back of my mind. He knew exactly what I was looking for in each and every track. The greatest part of the work Chris did (besides the music itself) was the constant channel of communication that was left open between Chris and myself. He never fell through and took a sort of passion about music that was not even his. This is extremely rare in today's industry. You better believe that Noise Pollution Records/Universal Records will keep coming back to him and I strongly recommend all artists, no matter what level, to do the same. Thanks Chris!"

Tony Silvia: "Although I have many years of making music under my belt, I’ve only been recording for a short time. Not being completely satisfied with what I could do on my home equipment, I decided to take a chance and send some of my better completed recordings out to be professionally mastered. The first company I picked attracted me because of their low prices. I basically threw my money out the window on that transaction, as the "master" they produced was horrible and full of all manner of extraneous noise that wasn’t in the original recordings. Their customer service was abysmal, and I would go days or weeks without having any communication from them whatsoever. At the time of this writing I still have not received a final product from them, and at this point I’ve tired of caring.

I decided I needed a better game plan if I was ever going to get a CD master I’d be happy with. After some research I decided to give Digital Sunspot a chance. I liked the fact that there was obviously a real person working behind the scenes. A simple phone call confirmed that. Chris was very personable and answered all of my questions patiently; he outlined how his Edemo and the remote mastering process worked. In less than 2 days my Edemo was done; I was completely blown away by the improvement he was able to achieve. A song that I had thought sounded OK before he touched it was completely transformed into something I'd be proud to have played on the radio - I was astonished! The positive contrast between his Edemo and the version the "other company" did was even more obvious than the modest improvement the "other company" had been able to achieve. Basically I was sold; I quickly worked out the details of the transaction with Chris so he could get started on my project, which he did almost immediately.

Chris was able to do a job many times better than what the other company had been able to do, and he did it in a fraction of the time. Money well spent, I’d say. I only wish I’d gone to Digital Sunspot first!"

Brent Douglas, Sojourner www.sojourneronline.com "Chris did an incredible job with our Supernova EP! We gave him a recording that was a little less than perfect as far as sound quality goes, but the best we could do in our little town. Chris took this decent-sounding recording and made it absolutely sing! The clarity he brought to the EP while still retaining a nice warmth was nothing short of incredible! The quality of his product would suggest that the price would be far more than he charges, but all of it comes in at lower rates than I found anywhere else for this quality. He takes the time with the free E-demo to explain to you what he can do. More importantly, he explains what you can do in the mixing process to improve your project before sending it to him.  Others offering a free demo would simply return your demo with no explanation whatsoever. Replication prices are also a lot cheaper than I found anywhere else. Make sure you trust your project with Chris at the Digital Sunspot!"

Greg Mailloux  I want to thank you for the excellent work that you have done on the two projects that I sent to you for mastering.  I had a similar project mastered in Toronto three years ago by a highly renowned mastering engineer, who mastered CDs by the likes of Bryan Adams, Kim Mitchell, Triumph, U2, and Lorena McKenitt. When I compare your work with his on my CDs, I found the tone quality of your master to be truer, the volume levels to be the same or better, and the price to be less than one-third of his. In addition, I found your attention to small details to be far greater than his -- he was not the least bit interested in me or my product. You, on the other hand, have given suggestions and recommendations from the very beginning. I certainly appreciate the thoughtfulness that went into both projects.

nR Element What I always can't get over (the mastering) is there is some kind of beautiful paradox in the way you make them sound... all the sounds blend together perfectly, yet at the same time, every sound and instrument has more of an identity and it clearer and more individual than before!  Chris Hudec has quite an ear! =)

Sim_01 "Well, I've listened to the disk for a few days now and I think it's awesome! The more I listen to it, the more I love it. It sounds FABULOUS! Thank you for all your work and diligence and for making my tunes sound professional." 

The following are some of our mastering clients listed by genre:

Corporate Clients/Recording Studios

Rust Records (Record label with distribution by Universal Records)
General Motors Corporation
StarChoice BTV (satellite broadcast TV)
Mungler Winslowe

Acoustic/Jazz

Back Street Band
Terami Hirsch All Girl Band
Terami Hirsch To The Bone
The Saxophone Studio
Johnny Summers
Laurel Ward

Pop/Rock/Alternative/Contemporary

3 Second Memory
4KF
Anointing (Melvin Douglas)
ARAVIA
Mauricio Bertin
Boho Zen
Casey Brandt AKA Furious Billy
David Calhoun
Cherry Monroe (Universal Records recording artist)
Clueless
The Crud
Crystal Brandt
Jim Cooper
Julie Eisler
Essence
Explicit Truth
Eyes of You
FatJonesSon
David Finch - Abnormal Sunday
Firstinlastout
George Joseph Gordon - Everybody's Welcome
George Joseph Gordon - Ever Since
Heterodyne
Lawrence Howell
Mission Failed as heard in the movie First Time Caller
Bret Johnson
Scratching Post
Stephen Kambeitz
Steve Katchorick
Kerosene
Mark Kitchens
Kimberly Kirkwood
Roy Kyle
Alton Lathrup
Jason Lyles
Majority D
Erin Mathis
Jeff Marks
Curtis Marsh
Frank Mastroianna
Michael Mishaw (Recorded/Performed with Don Henley, Stevie Wonder, Sir Elton John, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion and many others)
Momentum
Justin Nels
Dr. Neptune
Jeff Orr/Modern Reflections Music Group
Outsight
Pawnshop Caddies
Peek
Tony Perry
Rockfarm
Michelle Romeiro
Randy Sacks
Saltwater Vampires
Shapeshift
Kevin Shawcross/Cathartic
John Simmons
Dave Swain
Phil Townley (Live Mixing for: Reba McIntire, Chubby Checker, B.B. King, Sawyer Brown, Red Hot Chili Peppers and others)
Toyo Records Compilations 1 & 2
Melvin Turner
Vitamin E
Xadex
David Zoe

Country/Folk/Gospel/Other

Back Street Band
Bruno Bianco
Turneille Burrows
Peter Burtt
Kevin Cloud
Bill Crawford & The New Modernaires
Winston Dawkins
El Teatro Campesino Soundtrack of: La Virgen del Tepeyac
Erevan
Janice Geerdes
Ramzi Haddad Ambient, New Age Music For The Sensuous Souls.
Jay Hitt
Epiphora
Juliet LaFerier
Frank Liddy
Craig Madden - "Aural Safari"
Rafi Munim
Andy Northrup Origins (unreleased)
Andy Northrup Slow Burn Avenue
Andy Northrup Cardboard Logic
Bill Travis
Voices of Hope
Melva Williams

Rap/Hip Hop/R&B

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Foras Aje
Steve Andreopoulos
Certified Playas
Justin Collins
Tyrone Cross
Dakota
DNA
DSP
Finam
G.I. Rangers
Shane Hall
Alvin Johnson Jr.
King
KI w/DSP & K.C.
Midwest Wolverines
Nubian Eclipse
Osyrus
Daniel Purdie
Artwann Pore'
ShiMarcc
Still Smashin'
TKS
Undiscoverd Grammar
Steven Walker
Calvin Wilson
Mike Ziemann

Electonic/Techno/Trance/Dance

Atomic - Adrian Dittmar
Dark Project
Limbonius
Colin Munroe
nR Element 
Oxygen Breathing Apparatus
Sim_01
St. Louis From Space
Tom Vaughn