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WHAT'S SO SPECIAL?
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The key to mastering is the right gear in the hands of the right engineer. At Specialized Mastering we have two of the finest engineers in the NorthEast. You can expect nothing but perfection with your project safely in their hands.
DANA WHITE
Dana J. White has been mastering album releases for CD since 1995. He has worked on award winning projects for some of the great local talents as well as recording legends. He also has extensive experience with recording/mixing, broadcast audio, CD manufacturing, mastering for cassette, and CD-ROM. As a degreed audio engineer from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell (BA), Dana has studied music performance and sound recording technology. He is conversant with many aspects of composition, arranging, performance, and recording production in all major genres. Dana has been a member of the Audio Engineering Society since 1993. In 2001 Dana founded Specialized Mastering after working for 9WEST Mastering where he served full time as the principal mastering engineer.
CREDITS:
COLIN SAPP
Colin riginally hails from Flint, Michigan where he ran his own 24-track analog studio for six years. In 1999, he relocated to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music, graduating in 2002. Since then, Colin has performed freelance as a guitarist around Boston and produced, consulted and assisted on several recording projects. He has also worked in music education as the Guitar Coordinator and Advanced Music Theory Instructor for the Boston Arts Academy from 1999-2003. An avid wine connoisseur, Colin is a collector in addition to a wine consultant and he draws on the many artistic parallels between wine and music.
CREDITS:
The Flow, Sebastian Mueller, Trilby Brannon, Midnight, Cara Aley, Lisa Bastoni, Sam Bayer, Carrie Cheron, Julie Dougherty, Mike Doughty, Tom Driscoll, Chuck Hall, Thea Hopkins, Jenifer Jackson, Peter Kastner, Boris McCutcheon, Kate Redgate, The Waifs, Dan Wilson, Possum Logic and many others.
Specialized Mastering uses professional equipment that ideally suits the mastering process. Some gear is state-of-the-art, some is classic. It is chosen based upon its sonic performance, aesthetic, and functional merits. It is all proven gear that gets the right results.
PARTIAL GEAR LISTING
MASTERING -
* Avalon 2055 pure class A mastering EQ
* Millennia TCL-2 Twincom tube/solid-state compressor
modified with Telefunken tube retrofit
* Apogee PSX-100 24 bit/ 96 kHz D/A & A/D converter
* TC Electronic M5000 fully loaded with MD2 and ATAC remote
* Waves L2 Limiter
* Valley Audio Dynamap 730
* dbx Quauntum
* Waves Plug-ins
* SPL Spectralizer
* Algorithmix DeNoiser, Declick/Descratch restoration tools
* Custom MS Shuffler
MONITORING -
* B&W 801 Matrix III reference monitors
* AKG K270 headphones
* Lucid DA9624 digital to analog converter
* Bryston 4B amplification
* Bryston preamp
* Canare wiring
* Isolated electrical service
* Pinguin Pro loudness/VU/spectrum/phase meter
EDITING -
* SADiE Disk Editor with:
* SADiE Mastering Limiter
* SADiE Graphical EQ
* SADiE Hi-Dither 96K noise shape dithering
* Apogee UV-22 dithering
* Steinberg Wavelab 4.0
RECORDERS -
* Ampex ATR-102 1/2" mastering deck
* Otari MTR-10 1/4" Mastering Deck
* Plextor & Yamaha CD-R master recorders
* Exabyte 8500 DDP master recorder
* Panasonic SV3800 DAT recorder
* Sony A-6 DAT recorder
* Sony CD-RW 33 CD recorder
* Parasound CDP 1000 CD player
* Nakamichi DR-2 cassette deck
* Music Hall MMF 2.1 turntable with Goldenring cartridge & Bryston preamp
* LynxOne 24/96 audio I/O
* Z-Systems 8x8 digital audio router
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