Low-end Theory mastering gear?

[TRA]

I'm sure there are many threads involving this, but is it possible to put together a decent mastering chain on a small budget? ($1k or less per piece of gear)

Here are some pieces of lower priced gear that I've seen in mastering rooms...feel free to provide your input and make any comments or additions.

Monitors - B&W 600 series
Converters - Lucid
Compression - ART Pro VLA, G-SSL
EQ - Toft AFC-2

[MASSIVE Master]

You can put together a chain of whatever you want. You're the one that needs to be happy with it (along with whoever you're working for - even if it's just yourself). It depends on what you're trying to realistically accomplish.

[Alécio Costa]

With U$1000 the best you can buy is:
a) PSP Neon HR + Xenon + VW
b) Waves MAsters Bundle
c) TC MD3.

[MAzevedo]

If I needed to put a mastering room together on the cheap, I would do all the processing in the box and spend all my money on monitoring and acoustic treatment. Software processing keeps getting closer to hardware, but there is nothing that will let you be as effective a mastering engineer as monitoring that let's you hear what is actually happening in a recording.

[DSD_Mastering]

Originally Posted by MAzevedo

If I needed to put a mastering room together on the cheap, I would do all the processing in the box and spend all my money on monitoring and acoustic treatment.

+1
Room treatment is the best bang for the buck! Then work on your monitoring chain... speakers/amps/converters....

Regards,
Bruce