The Studio

A room full of fun analog goodies is only as good as the decisions you make with it. The monitoring and room treatment are the the core of any mastering studio. Ensuring that you can trust what you hear, and make decisions about how best to proceed. We rely on a ATC SCM 110ASL monitors (a lot of letters and a very funny way to spell "the best") and a completely purpose built mastering room with more acoustic design and treatment than you can shake a stick at (please dont shake a stick at it) Plus, its got a window, and who doesn’t love a window.

Speaking of decisions, we've got a host of tasty analog knobs to twiddle as well as some of those new fangled plugy-iny things, to have all the flavours of processing at our fingertips to decide what suits the material best while being able to retain an objective ear for the project. The internet says people like bullet points, so here they are (but we can't help ourselves so everything is a link to more info on a separate page)

• Knif ETIP passive tube mastering EQ (serial "Numero Uno")

• Knif Vari-Mu II Tube mastering compressor (also serial "Numero Uno")

• Knif Eksa Class A Mastering EQ with custom order filters and Jfet gain stage

• Magic Death Eye Stereo Compressor

• Weiss DS-1 MK3 digital mastering Compressor

• Crane Song Avocet IIa Monitor Controller

• Crane Song Solaris Quantum DAC

• Ayre QA-9 Pro ADC

• DCS 902 ADC Converter

• RME ADI-2 DAC FS

• Rosson Audio Design RAD-0 Headphones

• Focal Clear Pro Headphones

• Real Requisite CA-1A ribbon Headphones

• Lots (too many?, yeah probably too many) plugins

Video and Motion by SubSocialStudios , Photos by Leigh Righton and Brock McFarlane, Illustrations by Wilson Ward Kemp