digital & analog audio mastering
Austin / Cedar Park · Texas · USA
For those who have recorded and mixed to analog tape, and who are looking to avoid absolutely any digital conversions or
processing for their vinyl record releases, we can offer 100% analog mastering. We can playback your ¼” or ½” 2-track tapes on our
Sony/MCI JH110M mastering deck, process using our excellent analog equalizers, compressor/limiters, enhancers and de-essers, and
then add or attenuate gain as needed with our Manley Backbone transfer console, which also allows us to add fades. This is
captured back on analog ¼” 2-track 15ips tape reels, and then edited, spaced and sequenced as needed to one reel per album side,
via razor blade, splicing and leader tape. These reels can be then be transferred directly to lacquer or DMM vinyl record masters, at
the select cutting studios still capable of sending to the cutter head directly from tape.
Please note that the time, materials and care necessary to do this process is extensive, so requires additional charges quoted on a
per job basis.
You can hear the results of this process for yourself
on Bernie Worrell’s “Standards” LP from 2011 -
which was recorded to 2” 24-track, mixed to ½”
30ips 2-track, and then pre-mastered and
sequenced to two ¼” 15-ips 2-track reels at Total
Sonic Media. These tapes were then directly
transferred to lacquer master by Paul Gold at Salt
Mastering. We think the results of this effort were
well rewarded with truly huge 3d sound on the LP.
Steven Berson during the 100% analog mastering for Bernie Worrell’s “Standards” LP, 2011