MONITORING CHAIN: 

• Primary system:  Bowers & Wilkins (B&W) Nautilus 802 loudspeakers, Pass Labs X-250 power amplifier  
• Secondary system:  Dynaudio Acoustics BM15 loudspeakers, Bryston amplification
• Controller:  Crane Song Avocet monitor control system / monitoring D-A

ANALOG OUTBOARD Includes:

• Manley Variable-Mu (Mastering Edition) compressor / limiter
• Crane Song STC-8M Class A mastering compressor / limiter
• 
  “SS-oweL” Stereo Compressor (Custom unit based on the SSL4044E/G buss compressor with added MCI416 transformer output)
• Crane Song Ibis Discrete Class A parametric equalizer
• API 5500 Dual Equalizer (hybrid 550 B/D/M EQ)

DIGITAL INTERNAL AND OUTBOARD PROCESSING - Highlights:

• DBX Quantum ll (Digital Multi-band Mastering Processor) 
• Universal Audio Digital (UAD) collection:  Fairchild 670, Teletronix LA2A, Urei 1176LN, Precision Mastering Series Limiter, Pultec EQP-1A, Cambridge EQ, Pultec MEQ-5, Precision Mastering Series Equalizer, Precision Multi-Band compressor, Neve 33609C Stereo Compressor, more...  
• Eliosound Air EQ
• AM-Suite (Native to the Samplitude/Sequoia family)
• Izotope’s RX Series audio restoration tools
• K-Stereo processor (by Bob Katz / Algorithmix) 

DIGITAL CONVERSION and ROUTING HARDWARE Includes:

• Crane Song H.E.D.D. 192 - Harmonically Enhanced Digital Device
• Bel Canto e.One Dac3 upsampling DA converter (PCM1792 / CS8421)
• Lavry Engineering (dB Technologies) 4496 Conversion System:

• • M*AD824 2 channel A/D converter
• • M*SYNC Master clock
• • M*DA824 2 channel D/A converter

• Crane Song monitoring D/A
• Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) digital routing
• DBX Quantum II Type IV Conversion System
• Lynx AES 16-channel Digital Interface / Router

SOURCE PLAYBACK / TRANSPORT Includes:

• MCI JH110C open-reel analog deck (with 1/4” and 1/2” head stacks)
• Tascam DV-RA1000 Direct Stream Digital (Sony DSD) system
• Alesis MasterLink ML-9600 High Resolution Master Disk System
• Rega P3 table w/glass platter, RB300 arm and Dynavector 10x4 MC cartridge
• Cambridge Audio Azur Series 640P MM/MC Class ‘A’ phono stage
• Tascam DA-30 MkII DAT deck
• Sony Mini Disc
• Cambridge Audio Azur Series 650BD SACD/HDCD/DVD-A
• Tascam 122 MKIII cassette
• Technics RS-DC10 Digital Compact Cassette

DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATIONS Feature:

• (PC) Modified (2010) Sonica Labs G-340 High Performance Audio System

• • Intel Core i7-920 Quad Core processor - 4.8GT/s QPI
• • Intel X58 Chipset EVGA 3XSLI
• • 6 GB DDR3 1600MHz Patriot Viper RAM

• Terastation Pro 2-Terabyte NAS-RAID
• Samplitude Professional recording / mastering production system
• Steinberg WaveLab Audio Mastering and Editing Suite
• Plextor internal and external drives utilizing PlexTools Professional
• Mac Intel Core 2 Duo

DITHERING OPTIONS Include:

• Lavry Engineering Dithering with Acoustic Bit Correction®
• Apogee UV-22 HR (Hardware and software) Dithering
• POW-r Dithering system
• Crane Song “Analog Dither”
• Crane Song HEDD 192

WELL, THAT’S GREAT.  ANYTHING ELSE?

• Room treatments by GIK Acoustics, Klups, RealTraps ®
• All interconnections are Belden 1800F cable with Neutrik connectors.  Amplifier and speaker connections are Silver Serpent and Cobalt cables respectively. 
• Monster Power® Professional and Blue Circle power conditioning and filtering
• Custom console by Sterling Modular
• The famous “Stereo Stupidifier with Digital Sonic Decrapulator”

MASSIVE Mastering -
World-class analog and digital treatment for your analog and digital projects -
Since 1995

"Massive Mastering is the only mastering facility I use. When you find a place that works that well consistently, you stick with it."

Jason Walsh - Owner, Farview Recording - St. Charles, IL