custom built analog equipment and state of the art digital technology
How i work
Enhancing, not repairing
Mastering is about enhancing music. Nowadays it’s often just referred to making music louder, but that’s just a small part of the process. More importantly it should strengthen the artist’s vision in the final product. And this often means not to just make it loud, but carefully selecting analog and digital equipment to make fine adjustments to the sound. It’s about listening in between the instruments and creating a coherence between the songs. Often the changes done in mastering are smaller than expected, but that’s because mastering is not about repairing what has gone wrong in the recording or mixing, but enhancing the things that are already good.
Equipment List
Analog Processing
Mastering Transfer Console (custom built)
EAR 825Q (custom built)
Sontec MES-440G/7 (custom built)
Pultec EQH-2 (Stereo, custom built)
Elysia Xpressor 500
NTP 179-400 Limiter (Stereo, racked)
Teletronix LA-2A (Stereo, custom built)
Trident 80B-500 EQ (Stereo)
Neumann V475-2C analog summing mixer
RFT MV810 Mic-Preamp (Stereo, racked)
Monitoring
ME Geithain RL903K
Tape PRocessing
Telefunken M15 1/4” Master Recorder
Conversion
Antelope Orion 32+
digital processing
UAD, Brainworx, Softube, Fabfilter, Izotope RX, Hofa DDP
Cabling
Mogami