Saff Mastering Equipment

MONITORING

  • PMC IB1 monitors (info)
  • Bryston 4BST power amplifier (info)
  • Sennheiser HD600 headphones (info)

CONVERSION/ROUTING

  • Benchmark Media Systems DAC-1 24-bit/192KHz DAC (info)
  • Lavry Engineering LavryBlue M.AD824 24-bit/96KHz ADC (info)
  • Lavry Engineering LavryBlue M.DA824 24-bit/96KHz DAC (info)
  • RME AES-32 sound card w/ TotalMix digital routing (info)
  • Custom Neutrik/Canare XLR thru-bay

VINYL MASTERING SYSTEM

  • Neumann VMS-80 lathe
  • Neumann SX-74 cutter head
  • Neumann SAL 74b cutting rack
  • Neumann SP79 specialized mastering console

ANALOG PROCESSING

EQUALIZATION
  • Manley Massive Passive stereo tube EQ (info)
  • Millennia Media NSEQ-2 stereo parametric equalizer (with Fred Forssell mastering mods) (info)
  • API 5500 dual-mono equalizer (info)
DYNAMICS
  • Crane Song STC-8/M discrete Class A compressor/peak-limiter (Mastering Edition) (info)
  • Requisite Audio L2M mk. III tube mastering limiter (info)
  • API 2500 stereo bus compressor (info)

DIGITAL PROCESSING

  • Universal Audio UAD-2 DSP card (info)
  • An extensive array of native plugin processing (FabFilter, SoftTube, Acustica, Voxengo, Sonimus, etc.)
  • Steinberg Nuendo editing software (info)

ANALOG AND DIGITAL TRANSPORTS

  • MCI JH-110C analog mastering deck with 1/2" stereo, 1/4" stereo and 1/4" half-track headstacks (completely refurbished by AMP Services)
  • Tascam DA-20 DAT
  • KAB-modified Technics SL-1200 turntable with Creek OBH-18 phono preamp
  • Nakamichi 582 Z cassette deck
  • Plextor PlexWriter Premium CD-RW with PlexTools (C1/C2 error checks on all outgoing production masters)
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