In the production of recorded music, mastering serves as both the final opportunity in the creative process and the first technical step in making the finished product. Whether for CD, downloadable files or vinyl, mastering is a chance to have a skilled and experienced engineer listen to your work in an exceptionally accurate and revealing monitoring environment, to refine, preserve or enhance the presentation of your mixes, and to ensure that the highest level of quality is passed along to the final release medium.
Sonopod is the mastering studio of engineer Dave Greenberg, offering mastering to independent musicians, producers and record labels worldwide. At Sonopod, we work with a respect that every song, EP or album we receive has been contributed to and approved by a team of creative people. Our clients rely on us to ensure that all the best in their work is preserved or enhanced, ready to impact the listener at its fullest potential.
As for our equipment, we believe a mastering engineer’s tools start with first-class monitoring and playback, along with processors that are customized or otherwise well-suited to the fine task at hand.
Everything we use here at Sonopod has been selected or modified with great care and scrutiny, affording a wide range of treatments for a wide range of music. Whether transparent corrections or euphonic enhancements, our goal is to deliver your listeners the best possible presentation of your tracks.
Analog Signal Processing:
- Eclair La-La Model 62 vacuum-tube optical limiter Focusrite Blue 230 compressor/limiter Crane Song STC-8 compressor/limiter NTP 179-170 compressor/limiter UREI LA-22 compressor/de-esser Dolby model 740 Spectral Processor SPL Passeq mastering equalizer Millennia NSEQ-F (NSEQ-2 with Forssell and mastering modifications) API 5502 (custom modified)
Digital Audio Workstations and Signal Processing:
- Pro Tools HD6/Accel with DSP by Massenburg, Waves, McDSP, Massey, Sonic and many more Bias Peak Pro and Audiofile Engineering Wave Editor Z-Systems Z-3SRC Sample Rate Converter
Monitoring & Transfer:
- ME-Geithain RL901K monitor loudspeakers Custom-modified AD and DA converters by Crookwood and Panasonic/Ramsa Custom Crookwood monitor, insert and transfer console
With unique skills, a broad musical background, and top-notch equipment, Dave Greenberg collaborates with producers and musicians around the world, major-label artists and unsigned hopefuls, bridging the gap between the technical and the creative, and helping to bring out the best in everyone he works with.
Contact us to discuss your project!