Of course, any mastering facility is only as good as the engineer, but after that comes the monitoring chain, the room and the gear selection. Some of our gear is stock and some modified.

 

Equipment:

 

We have a fully analogue hardware outboard units. The majority of our work utilised hardware however this entirely depends upon the style of music and task that’s required.

 

Monitoring/Conversion:

 

Conversion:

 

- Antelope Audio Pure2 Mastering-Grade Converters

- Mytek Brooklyn ADC & Dedicated PSU

AES/EBU I/O:

- RME HDSPe AES PCIe cards

 

Monitoring:

 

- Duntech Marquis

- Velodyne DD10

- Various headphones: Audeze, Beyerdynamic, Sony

 

Amps:

 

- Bryston 4B-ST

- Linearaudio.pro cyberAMP Class D Amp

 

Cables:

 

- Grimm Cables & High Quality Neutrik connectors

- Kimber 8TC Cables

- Custom Power Cables

 

Meters:

 

- Totalsystems DBM 3 Peak Meter

- Benchmark SPM-2 Stereo Meters

- DK-Audio MSD-550 Meter

- TC Clarity M

 

Analog EQ:

 

- SPL PQ Mastering EQ

- Manley Stereo Pultec - Custom

 

Analog Compression/Limiting:

 

- HCL Varis Mastering Compressor - variable Mµ

- Manley Vari-Mu Limiter / Compressor

- Elysia Xpressor

- Manley Slam!

 

Computer Workstation:

 

- Custom PC

- Apple Macbook Pro intel Core i7 CPU

- Apple iMac

- 2 x Apple Cinema Display

-  Samsung 50" Display

-  Apple iPad

- Elgato StreamDeck

 

Furniture and Acoustics:

- Custon studio design, build and acoustics

- Custom heavy mastering desk

 

Other:

- Presonus FaderPort Hardware Controller

- iCON QConPro Controller

- Technics SL-1200MK2

- Tone Projects, Masterlab Audio, DMG, iZotope, Nugen Audio, Acustica Audio, Softube, SPL, Pulsar Audio  & many others...

 

Studio:

 

Our custom-built studio has been designed to create a precision working environment, providing us full control over every aspect of your music. Being able to properly monitor your projects in confidence is the key to creating reliable masters & mixes every time.

 

If you need to know any further information then please contact us at studio@connectedmastering.com   or   damian@connectedmastering.com