Todd Mariana
Deep Grooves Mastering
P.O. Box 6535
Chicago, IL 60680-6535
We provide professional vinyl mastering services in Chicago. Dubs, Master Lacquers, plastic dubs, mastering and orchestrating pressings as small as 100 copies.
Audio mastering, Dubs and lacquer mastering on a Scully LS76 with SX74 cutter head and a Neumann AM32B with VG66 racks. Manley Backbone/BWS custom mastering console, Mytek and Burl converters synched to Antelope Atomic/Trinity word Clock. ATR 102 1/4 and 1/2 playback. Direct to disc recording as well.
I have been cutting for 39 years. I also mastered records at Artisan Sound Recorders, Kendun Recorders, Location Recording Service and MCA/Whitney Recording Studios on your list. None of these mastering facilities exist any longer. Also cut at Future Disc Systems and AcousTech Mastering, not on the list. Neither of these is still cutting either.
My current facility, which I own and operate is CoHEARent Audio, LLC www.cohearent.com
I have a Neumann VMS-66 with Technics SP-02 motor and Zuma ZMS-1 computer.
Neumann SX74 Cutterhead
Cutting system was built from scratch and is totally discrete, transformerless, pure class-A, w/300WPC amps.
(as is the entire system from tape head to cutterhead)
The rest of our gear, just too much to mention, is on the website.
I specialize in Audiophile remastering for vinyl, CD, SACD and FLAC downloads
This list is still far from complete. Len Horowitz/HRS should be here.... and I don't know if Leandro G. works for one of the listed Brooklyn houses. It's late at night...forgive my sloppiness.
I've been mastering since 1984 but got into cutting only about three years ago and I'm having a blast! I'm loving the sound and the process of making records.
I've been a tech for most of my career and custom build much of my own gear. Getting under the hood has been challenging but is a big part of the fun of running a lathe.
Neumann VMS70 SAL74B SX74
Barry Porter EQ
Sontec EQ
Telefunken EQ
Custom 4 channel disk cutting EQ (Gerbers ready to send off...)
API 2500 compressor
FCS compressor
Requisite compressor
Maselec de-esser
Studer A80 preview deck with Ampex MR-70 electronics
A fleet of analog decks (Studer, Revox, Otari, Ampex, MCI, Teac)
Tel: +49 (0) 81 06/99 79 31 0
Fax: +49 (0) 81 06/99 79 31 1
Mail: kontakt (at) tonschallraum.de
URL: http://www.tonschallraum.de (Currently we are working on a new website in German and English)
Disc Cutting:
- Neumann VMS82 with SAL84 & SX84 DMM-Mastering
Digital Audio:
- Stagetec Nexus, Audio Matrix with 28bit TrueMatch Converters AD/DA, AES/EBU & MADI, DSP functions (Delays, Compressor, EQ, Expander/Gates), Samplingrates 32kHz up to 96kHz
- Magix Samplitude Pro X
We provide the professional transfer of audio to DMM for industrial production of phonograph disks. We don't offer audio mastering, but we work together with some experienced
vinyl mastering studios in Germany.
Here are some pics from the cutting studio:
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Formerly operated as Scratch Free Vinyl Mastering from 1999 -2006
Recently resumed work on restoring the VMS 70
Hoping to be up and running cutting masters again in spring 2013
VMS 70 w/ Neumann pitch
SX 74
SAL 74
Ortofon CPS 741 disc mastering console
Converters and Analog processing TBD
Studio location TBD
looking forward to participating in the forum here,
Hi friends,Ok let me introduce a well known cutting Label in Argentina,my name is Claudio Canova
owner and founder oh Hamilton Records Argentina®. i´ve be cutting records from the past 12 years providing records for many South American Countries,at the present I also cut masters and stampers and I hope in a short time begin to press........ about the cutting stuffs below a short info.
FAIRCHILD 740 (2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ye4D3GwFI4&list=UU5lAakrxvM8Ycv-Ju4GqEww&index=3
VINYLIUM SYSTEM (3 units)
AMPLIFIERS
SYGNUS THOROIDAL PA 1800
VC2000 (3 units)
GRAPHIC ECUALIZERS PEAVY 2 X 31 BANDS/PARAMETRIC ROLAND 8B
PC ANALIZER STEIMBERG PRO
COMPRESSORS DRAWMER-DBX 161/162
CD PLAYERS TASCAM-STANTON
TURTABLES REK-O KUT TRANSCRIPTION TURNTABLE16"
MONITORS FENDER STUDIO PRO
MASTER UNIT SKP 1800 W
here is current equipment:
Neumann VMS70 with CBS DiscComputer
SX74/SX68
SAL74
SP79 console
Ortofon STL 732 HF-limiters
Custom Pultec style EQ's
API 2500 bus comp.
Genelec / NS-10 monitoring
Studer A80, with preview & playback heads for analog cuts
UA D/A converters
Hello everyone. I own Sound Affair Mastering in Santa Ana CA.
The studio is equipped with a 600 series automatic Scully lathe with Haeco SC 2 cutter head with Haeco SD-240 cutting electronics and a Haeco LX-1 elliptical equalizer. Other equipment includes the complete Focusrite Blue mastering system, Eventide Eclipse DDL for automatic feed lathe control, SPL De-esser and 9530 tube vitalizer, Fairchild 602 high frequency limiter, Manley Massive Passive EQ, ADR E 500 selective band processor, Waves L2 Ultramaximizer and a Ampex ATR 102 (1/2" & 1/4" head blocks) with Dolby 363 SR/A noise reduction. Bi-amped Tannoy system 15 DMT-II monitors with a Tannoy XO 5000 time align crossover and UREI power amps.