5.1 Mastering Gear

[Alécio Costa]

Hi,

We talk a lot about 2.0 mastering gear, analog or digital, combination of both but I do not see much covering 5.1 mastering equipment.

SO.. I imagine nobody hardly has 3 OCL2, 3 STC8s, 3 VariMus, 3 Sontecs, etc.

All I have here is the 2.0 basic analog mastering set-up, PT HD Accel and TC MD3, the scalled down version of System 6000´s MD4.

What is left for 5.1, 7.1?
a) System 6000 ? ( any S7000 coming soon ?)
b) Sonic/Sadie HD workstations ?
c) Waves Bundles ?

Thanks

[Alécio Costa]

In 2007 Jay Frigoletto mentioned:

" 6 channel Z-Sys boxes, multiple Weiss units,SSL 6 channel comp and an API rack with 5 or 6 550m EQs. Add to that a t.c. 6000 and you have a killer setup for surround mastering".

[24-96 Mastering]

All you need is a System6000 with the surround mastering, unwrap and Massenburg licences. Oh, by the way, I'm selling just that Want it?

Kidding aside, a sys6000 is pretty much the only "standard" at this time. I used an 8 channel Sintefex convolution box at some point. That was nice for getting some charater for surround. (Then, Sintefex sold to Focusrite and slashed the value of my unit. Grr...).

Other than that, there are a couple of surround plugins (Waves, Nuendo 4) that are reasonably usable (to varying degrees), but nothing like MD5.1 surround dynamics or the MDW surround EQ on the sys6000 really. I'd say surround dynamics are a topic that strangely has not really been addressed by hardware & software makers... Especially with regards to software, this really surprises me.

[24-96 Mastering]

Originally Posted by Alécio Costa

In 2007 Jay Frigoletto mentioned:

" 6 channel Z-Sys boxes, multiple Weiss units,SSL 6 channel comp and an API rack with 5 or 6 550m EQs. Add to that a t.c. 6000 and you have a killer setup for surround mastering".

That would be a nice setup. I don't think anyone here has the surround clientele to pay for all that though. Especially multiple Weiss EQs & Weiss comps will break the bank. And noone will pay triple or double the normal rates for surround mastering.

[Alécio Costa]

When was System 6000 released? circa 2000?
Does it run only under Windows?
Thanks for the reply!

[24-96 Mastering]

Originally Posted by Alécio Costa

When was System 6000 released? circa 2000?
Does it run only under Windows?
Thanks for the reply!

I don't know exactly when it was released... although 2000 sounds about right. But they are developing algorithms for it. I.e. system6000 is the current TC infrastructure, new algorithms and features are updated. MD4 for example, TC's current flagship dynamics processing, is pretty new and runs on the system6000 only (it was a free update too)

I have no idea what operating system the system6000 mainframe is running. The ICON remote control is running on an embedded windows NT. There is remote control software for PC and for MAC that will do exactly what the ICON remote cotrol is doing.
But why would you ask that question? You do know the TC system6000 is hardware, right? It doesn't need any kind of computer to run.

[JusSumguy]

[the following is a link to a third party craigslist ad for a 6000 - full ad edited by mod to avoid spaminess]

TC Electronic System 6000 Reverb with Icon Like New - $6250 (Santa Monica)

LINK

[24-96 Mastering]

Originally Posted by JusSumguy

TC Electronic System 6000 Reverb with Icon Like New - $6250 (Santa Monica)
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with no mastering let alone surround mastering licences... how is this not spam?

Guess I shouldn't have started My apologies.

[JusSumguy]

Originally Posted by 24-96 Mastering

with no mastering let alone surround mastering licences... how is this not spam?

Guess I shouldn't have started My apologies.

I was just posting an ad I saw on Craig's list.


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[jayfrigo]

Originally Posted by 24-96 Mastering

That would be a nice setup. I don't think anyone here has the surround clientele to pay for all that though. Especially multiple Weiss EQs & Weiss comps will break the bank. And noone will pay triple or double the normal rates for surround mastering.

In the original post, I wasn't saying to get all that stuff. It was kind of a roundup of what folks are using or what was available. There are a few other things, like the Neve 5.1 comp, but any combination of things from the above list would certainly work. The t.c. 6000 is the one piece that pretty much everybody doing surround has, and after that, it's to taste whether they want analog, digital, both etc. Don't forget the need for extra conversion if you want a surround analog chain.

[kosmokrator]

M6000 here.

But once in a while the Eventide H8000 does some jobs really good.