John Scrip has been engineering audio since the mid 1980's, working live and in the studio with artists that run the gamut “from garage bands to Grammy® winners.” After designing and overseeing construction of the acclaimed JEM Music Complex, he stayed on as Chief Engineer and started specializing in mastering. After JEM transferred ownership in the late 1990’s, John decided to further his practice in mastering and start a dedicated, but “budget friendly” service to serve the emerging boom in home and project studios.  MASSIVE Mastering helped pioneer the emergence of “mail-order mastering” and slowly grew to employ a world-class analog and digital signal chain while “trimming the fat” in client-side amenities to keep the business overhead low.  MASSIVE Mastering now has a clientele of artists from several countries throughout North & South America, Europe and Asia.

A voting N.A.R.A.S. (Grammy® organization) member, John’s album credits include a widely varying collection including blues, rock and metal bands such as Manowar, the Radiators, Subsonic and Metal Militia; the flamenco & world music recordings of Amsterdam’s Jacco Muller and Artur Trajko; “pop gospel” sounds of the Sun State Quartet, Vignola and the First Four; adult contemporary recordings from Grammy® nominee and Gold Record winner Dave Rudolf and dozens more covering several styles. 

John’s articles as “The RecTech” have appeared on in print and on web sites since the late 1990’s. He moderates the Mastering forum at the Studio Forums and is a Contributing Editor at StudioReviews.com.