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Jim Ruberto

Services

Recording, mixing, mastering, and post-production. From my Denver studio and on location throughout the Mountain West. I've spent decades doing this work, and I meet every project on its own terms, with the same attention whatever its scale.

Immersive Mastering

The new frontiers of spatial audio are here, and I believe acoustic music, chamber music, New Music, and contemporary classical deserve to be part of them.

I master for Dolby Atmos in a calibrated 7.2.4 monitoring environment, and I'm tracking the emerging open formats coming up behind it.

Whether you're delivering to streaming platforms, preparing for theatrical distribution, exploring spatial audio for the first time, or composing a piece where space is part of the music from the start, I'd love to talk about your project.

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Immersive Catalog Reissues

Give a back catalog a second commercial life — bringing recordings you've already made to new listeners, on the platforms that increasingly reward spatial audio. Whether the original sessions are intact or scattered across formats and years, there's usually a path into Dolby Atmos.

If you're a label thinking about your catalog in spatial audio, let's talk about what's possible.

Immersive Recording

If your music lives in a room, immersive recording captures that room. I record ensembles, soloists, and live performances directly to immersive formats on location, so the spatial character of a great hall or an intimate space becomes part of the recording rather than something flattened on the way to stereo.

My immersive capture is rooted in Morten Lindberg's 2L-Prism: a three-dimensional array that maps one microphone straight to one speaker, forming the Atmos bed. The ideal is to let the array do the work, and capture the room as it actually sounded. Done well, you don't hear the technique. You hear the room.

I bring the full chain to a session: 24 channels, on-location immersive capture, and experience working alongside film and documentary crews. And because I also mix and master in immersive, I can carry a project from the session all the way to the finished spatial master, with nothing lost in the handoff.

Stereo Mastering

Mastering has changed. The toolsets have evolved profoundly, and delivery requirements have become more complex; sometimes it feels like they change every week. We'll release your project following the current standards for each delivery medium. And it's going to sound great. In my calibrated listening environment, I'll put the finishing touches on your project with world-class equipment and the kind of deep experience that only comes from doing this for a long time.

Mixing

It's what I do. Pick your genre. I focus on and often spend the most time cleaning up source tracks, especially today, when a lot of great music gets made at home. From simple DIY recordings to high track count professional sessions, I'll meet your project where it is, highlight the special in it, and bring it to its best destination.

Studio & Location Recording

Some projects are perfect for my studio. I also freelance out of studios across the Mountain West, and I'm well equipped for location recording: 24 channels and experience collaborating with film crews.

If the room is part of the music, I know how to listen to it.

Audio Restoration & De-noising

Subtle, careful cleanup of recordings that have a problem. Mouth clicks and breath noise in a vocal take. Coughs, squeaks, and chair creaks in live recordings. Interview and location footage cleanup. Noise floor reduction.

RX is my instrument, and the work shows in what you don't hear: no artifacts, no smearing, no gap where the problem was. The fixes that look impossible are usually just a question of patience and the right spectral edit.