We recognize there are legitimate mastering facilities offering services at every level (World Class, Mid Level, & Budget). However, there are also those that are nothing more than Internet scam operations.  Their only purpose is to take your hard earned money and give you very little, or in some cases, nothing in return.

Some aren't necessarily scam operations, but they do operate in a fraudulent manner.  They make you think they're something they're not by posting photos they've stolen from the web sites of legitimate mastering facilities.  We don't publish photos of our studio, and for good reason.  In the last three years, we've have 27 online mastering facilities steal our web content and publish
it as their own.  They ceased using our material only after being threatened with a copyright infringement law suit by our legal department.  We don't take copyright infringement lightly.  We do whatever it takes to protect our intellectual property rights. Online thievery has become so common, that it's now a full time job to monitor the online behavior of those lacking integrity.
To assist us in finding those that have stolen our web content, we use CopyScape to browse the web and detect plagiarism.

We came across an article at Studio Reviews.  The article, Mastering Scams, was written by John Scrip, of Massive Mastering.
The article does a great job of covering this subject in detail.  We feel so strongly about these scam operations, and the way they are ripping off clients and legitimate mastering facilities, that we feel it's in everyone's best interest to read John's article.

Regardless of who you choose to master your project, we hope you will find John's article informative.  Bottom line...If what's being offered by a mastering facility seems to good to be true (price vs. value), perhaps it is.  It's your money.  Invest it wisely.