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):

U.S. Maple
Long Hair in Three Stages [2025 Reissue]
(SKiN GRAFT )

Cheer-Accident
Admission
(SKiN GRAFT )

Sorrows
Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow
(Big Stir)

Faulty Cognitions
They Promised Us Heaven
(Dead Broke)

Hellbender
Con Limon
(Dead Broke)

Toral, Rafael
Traveling Light
(Drag City)

E.T., Alex
Color of Strange
(Curation)

Gnarls Barkley
The Odd Couple [2025 Reissue]
(Downtown / Secretly Distribution )

Sinkhole
Groping for Trout [2025 Remaster]
(Dead Broke)

Dazzling Killmen
Dig Out the Switch [2025 Reissue]
(SKiN GRAFT )

Elder
Liminality / Dream State Return
(Stickman)

Troubled Hubble
Making Beds in a Burning House [20th Anniversary Edition]
(Foreign Leisure )

Sound of Money, The
Two: Rhyme On - An Anagrammatic Exorcism Of The 70s
(BB*ISLAND)

Wilder Maker
The Streets Like Beds Still Warm
(Western Vinyl)

Horsegirl
Julie in Twos
(Matador)

Verity Den
Wet Glass
(Amish)

Town Portal
Grindwork
(Dream Bureau)

RIBS
Junk Dynasty Leaderboard
(Third Uncle)

Pure Blue
Quiet Life
(Pre Recordings)

Sea of Cortez
Age of Anxiety
(Stickfigure)