Saff Mastering is a facility providing mastering for all formats (CD, digital, vinyl, cassette, etc.) and lacquer mastering for vinyl in northwest Chicago. Carl Saff began tracking and mixing records in 1995, but mastering has been the focus of his engineering work since 2000. This studio's goal is to make sure the mixes you've worked hard to perfect receive the best possible presentation for your listeners, and payment is only accepted when the client is completely satisfied with the work.

Be sure to check out the studio's regular "Master of the Week" posts and more on the social media sites linked below:

And you can keep up with the studio's ever-expanding discography on the clients page. Here are some of the most recent additions ( indicates lacquer mastering only):

Darin, Bobby
Commitment (2023 Reissue)
(Direction )

I Hate Myself
Four Songs [2024 Remaster]
(No Idea)

Sleepwalk
Out of Focus
(Summer Darling Tapes)

Modern Life Is War
Tribulation Worksongs
(Deathwish, Inc. )

Forgotten Boys
Click Clack
(Laja / ForMusic)

Soft Kill
Dead Kids Demos
(Social Cercle )

Soft Kill
The Big Hurt: Collected Singles & Rarities
(Social Cercle )

Matmos
Return to Archive
(Smithsonian Folkways )

Human Impact
Gone Dark
(Ipecac)

Carter, Dorothy
Troubador
(Drag City )

Drop Nineteens
Delaware (2024 Remaster)
(Wharf Cat)

VA
From Far It All Seems Small
(KR)

Subtropolis
True Crime on Acid Bridge
(El Gran E)

Murder in the Red Barn
ST
(Dipterid)

Silver Scrolls
Mind Lines
(Three Lobed Recordings)

Bulgarelli
Fat Animals
(Really Rad)

Haruspex Palace
ST
(Geographic North)

Murder in the Red Barn
Songs of Discontinuity
(Dipterid)

Fig Dish
Feels Like the Very First Two Times
(Forge Again)

Faulty Cognitions
Somehow, Here We Are
(Dirt Cult)