Matthew Gray Mastering uses new generation equipment housed in a Chris Morton acoustically-treated facility for a truly accurate representation of your mix.
Featured equipment
Sontec MES-432C
The Sontec MES-432C is a rare and prized analog mastering equalizer.
Developed by Burgess MacNeal and George Massenburg, the Sontec EQ was one of the first parametric EQs created and to date remains highly sought after, particularly for mastering. The most amazing feature of the Sontec EQ is its musicality. Unlike many parametric EQs, which can have as much a negative as a positive effect on your audio, the Sontec is hard to get a bad sound out of. To this day it is heralded as George Massenburg's most musical sounding EQ design.
This is the only Sontec EQ in Queensland and only one of three Sontecs currently in use throughout Australia.
Equipment
Monitoring
- Duntech Marquis C4000 floor standing monitors with crossover mods
- Pass Labs X250 Class A/B power amplifier
- Velodyne DD12 digitally controlled stereo sub-woofers
- Digidesign/PMC RM-1 5.1 surround sound monitors
- Dangerous Music Monitor with latest Chris Muth designed DAC
Digital audio workstations and DSP playback
- Protools HD2 ACCEL and 192 Digital I/O with customised mastering work environment
- Mac Intel Quad Core 3.4GHz running Pro Tools HD & Sonic Pre Master CD
- Pentium IV 3GHz with Lynx L22 192kHz & Plextor burners with Plextools XL CD error checking
- Sony Super Audio CD Player SCD-78780
Analog signal processing and playback
- Sontec MES-432C analog mastering equalizer designed by Burgess Macneal & George Massenburg.
- Buzz Audio REQ-2.2 CLass A Resonance analog mastering equalizer
- API 2500 analog quad VCA bus compressor
- API 5500 analog mastering equalizer
- Original Vintage Neve 1272 line amps with custom mods by Brent Averill
- Thermionic Culture Phoenix valve (vari-mu) analog compressor (mastering edition)
- Dangerous Master analog mastering console with M/S processing
- Dangerous Monitor analog & digital monitoring console
- Studer A807 ¼" 7.5, 15 or 30ips open reel mastering deck aligned & biased for Quantegy GP9, 456 & RMGI 911 analog tape
- Ampex ATR-102 ½" 15 or 30 ips open reel mastering deck fully rebuilt by Mike Spitz with Flux Magnetics heads & ARIA discrete class A electronics. This is the only ATR in Australia with the ARIA electronics package.
Digital signal processing (96kHz 24bit)
- Weiss Gambit Series DS1-MK3 hardware Hi-Res Digital Compressor/De-esser/Limiter
- Cranesong HEDD 192 triode & pentode valve & tape emulation
- Massenburg Design Works Hi-Res Parametric EQ V3 (48bit double precision) TDM
- Sonic Hi-Res EQ TDM
- Sonoris Hi-Res Linear Phase EQ (64bit double precision)
- Sonoris Mastering Equalizer (64bit double precision)
- DMG Audio EQuality
- TriTone Digital ClassicTone PEV
- Focusrite Red d2/d3 EQ & Compression TDM
- Focusrite Liquid Mix HD TDM (analog modelling by Sintefex)
- Flux Epure II Precision EQ TDM
- URS Classic Channel Strip Pro (48bit double precision) TDM
- PSP Master Comp (64bit double precision)
- PSP Xenon Limiter (64bit double precision)
- Dynamic Spectrum Mapper
- Massey L2007 Mastering Limiter TDM
- iZotope Ozone 4 64bit Mastering Suite
- iZotope Alloy 64bit Mixing Suite
- Eiosis E2 De-esser
- McDSP Analog Channel TDM
- Digidesign Smack TDM
- Digidesign Impact TDM
- DUY Wide TDM
- Sound Toys Filterfreak TDM
- Sound Toys Decapitator
- TL Space Convolution Reverb TDM
- TL Master Meter TDM
- TC Electronic VSS3 Source Reverb TDM
- Softube Tube-Tech CL 1B
- Slate Digital Trigger Deluxe Edition
- Slate Digital FG-X
- Sonic NoNoise Restoration Suite TDM
- Antares Auto-Tune Evo
Wiring and routing
- Canare DA202 110 ohm digital audio cabling for interconnects
- Dangerous Master analog routing console with M/S
Converters
- Pacific Microsonics HDCD Model 2 2ch 24-bit 192kHz A/D & D/A converter
- Forssell MADA-2 world class 2ch 24-bit 192kHz A/D & D/A converter
- Lavry Gold AD122-96 MKIII world class 2ch 24-bit 96kHz A/D converter
- Cranesong HEDD 192 with world class 2ch 24-bit/96 kHz A/D & D/A converters
- Dangerous (Chris Muth) Monitor DAC
Software
- Protools HD
- Sonic Studio PMCD
- WaveEditor
- SampleManager
- Barbabatch
- Plextools XL CD Error Checking