Show me your mastering setup 2011

[deft_bonz]

Very nice looking studio plus some impressive gear

How do you handle to have your gear outside the sweet spot? It looks very unusual for a mastering studio to have their gear "aside"

[Joelistics]

Originally Posted by deft_bonz

Very nice looking studio plus some impressive gear

How do you handle to have your gear outside the sweet spot? It looks very unusual for a mastering studio to have their gear "aside"

Thanks


To have the gear on the side was a decision my colleague Jørgen Knub (legendary danish mastering engineer whom i share the studio with) made before we joined forces. He's an amazing acoustician and decided to build it this way for acoustic reasons. We just have soo much gear (we also mix on occasion) that his first design had too much early reflection madness..

It did take me a while to get used to I'll admit, but luckily the sweet spot is large and the all important global bypass switch is in reach from the sweet spot. Rolling around can be fun but also annoying of course.. On the plus side it does help me not to twiddle with knobs for ages but instead 'listen - imagine the EQ move - do the EQ move - listen'.. That's the way i have been taught and this room helps me follow this workflow..

Not for everyone but I'm quite happy with it

[acorneau]

Originally Posted by teebaum

my masteringplace with new table & new monitoring - much more fun to work now!

Now that's Shagadelic!

[erikdrink]

WOW!

[echoRausch]

I have a similar desk now... done by Holger Brinkmann, right?

[teebaum]

Originally Posted by echoRausch

I have a similar desk now... done by Holger Brinkmann, right?

right ;-)
very nice team play with him. he help me a lot to find a perfect solution for me.

i wish you a lot fun wih your new desk!

[echoRausch]

Yes, Holger is a great guy, absolutely.

Still got lots of work with the new room but the desk is already fine!

[teebaum]

Originally Posted by echoRausch

Yes, Holger is a great guy, absolutely.

Still got lots of work with the new room but the desk is already fine!

what kind of speakers do you use?

[echoRausch]

Sonics Allegria S2. Nice speakers, best monitoring I ever had. For the price I picked them a no brainer. The only negative side is the critical vertical hotspot. I'll have to get used to that... For mixing tasks I still use my old Gennies 1030's with 1092.

[teebaum]

Originally Posted by echoRausch

Sonics Allegria S2. Nice speakers, best monitoring I ever had. For the price I picked them a no brainer. The only negative side is the critical vertical hotspot. I'll have to get used to that... For mixing tasks I still use my old Gennies 1030's with 1092.

i found

allegra s2

and

allegria

witch one?

[echoRausch]

Allegria (with "i"). However the official Sonics website doesn't display S2. They end at S1.5. Don't know why... Allegra's (without "i")are the smaller ones...

They have only information about S2 in other documents:

http://www.sonicsonline.de/download/...e_01032010.pdf

I don't think they already sold much of them, mine are #35.

[Silvertone]

Here is my old set up...

Silvertone Mastering Lab - YouTube

[erikdrink]

Looking nice!

[bee]

Originally Posted by Silvertone

Here is my old set up...

Silvertone Mastering Lab - YouTube

I love the Eclair Evil Twin and Retrospec Juice Box sitting on the meterbridge.

[Ben F]

Link to a 360 degree view of my current set up:

http://www.studios301.com/virtual_to...n_feggans.html

[Cellotron]

Here's a quick shot of my hobbit hole from the cockpit chair I took yesterday ->


Best regards,
Steve Berson

[inlinenl]

Originally Posted by Ben F

Link to a 360 degree view of my current set up:

http://www.studios301.com/virtual_to...n_feggans.html

wow what kind of closet they put you in Ben .....
nice BIG speakers :-)))) enjoy ...

and @ Steve : steady as it goes .... the wise man ...

[livingstone]

nice shot Ben !

Originally Posted by Ben F

Link to a 360 degree view of my current set up:

http://www.studios301.com/virtual_to...n_feggans.html

[Silvertone]

Originally Posted by bee

I love the Eclair Evil Twin and Retrospec Juice Box sitting on the meterbridge.

I'm reviewing the remake of the Juice Box for Tape-Op... what I've learned in shooting it out with all the other boxes (third time I've done these tests btw)... you need both an Evil Twin (or REDDI) and a Juice Box. Transformers change the sound... the Juice Box does not! Midrange is most complete with tubes. Transformers saturate the bottom and can ring at the top audible range giving one the sense of extended top end and bigger bottom. Euphoric at times. Which one works best in the track is subjective at best and can really only be determined by auditioning both boxes prior to tracking.

Bottom line for me... there is no one box that does it all. Never was and never will be... and I don't care if we are talking DI's, mic pre's, EQ's compressors or even instruments.

Kind of makes half the discussions around these parts moot!

Now back to showing off mastering spaces...

[cliomastering]

I have already change the Dbx for a another Focusrite Blue 330.
:: Clio Mastering

[lowland]

Nice, Francisco.

Good to see the Questeds - I know the forerunner of your speakers well.

[erikdrink]

Awesome!

[GoldMember]

looking some studios it's like looking how burgers are made.

[bee]

Originally Posted by Silvertone

I'm reviewing the remake of the Juice Box for Tape-Op... what I've learned in shooting it out with all the other boxes (third time I've done these tests btw)... you need both an Evil Twin (or REDDI) and a Juice Box. Transformers change the sound... the Juice Box does not! Midrange is most complete with tubes. Transformers saturate the bottom and can ring at the top audible range giving one the sense of extended top end and bigger bottom. Euphoric at times. Which one works best in the track is subjective at best and can really only be determined by auditioning both boxes prior to tracking.

Bottom line for me... there is no one box that does it all. Never was and never will be... and I don't care if we are talking DI's, mic pre's, EQ's compressors or even instruments.

Kind of makes half the discussions around these parts moot!

Now back to showing off mastering spaces...

I have both the Evil Twin and Reddi, I love them both and don't plan on getting rid of either... but right now I'm lusting after the Jule Monique. Here's a link for the Monique...Monique Bass Preamp DI EQ

[elpillo]

Here is mine...

[piotr]

Originally Posted by teebaum

my masteringplace with new table & new monitoring - much more fun to work now!

Hey teebaum,

I don't know, the waveform display seems so small.
You might be missing some critical detail there...

;-)

p.

[Nolan Walker]

Originally Posted by Ben F

Link to a 360 degree view of my current set up:

http://www.studios301.com/virtual_to...n_feggans.html

NICE!!!

[teebaum]

Originally Posted by piotr

I don't know, the waveform display seems so small.
You might be missing some critical detail there...
;-)
p.

you're right - i fix the problem - better like this?

[deft_bonz]

Originally Posted by teebaum

you're right - i fix the problem - better like this?

hahaha

what you really need is a 2 x 47" screen setup like this

[erikdrink]

Sweet man!