Facility

Our facility occupies approximately 1400 square feet of industrial warehouse space on the near west side of Chicago. Designed by acoustician Bob Alach of Alactronics (Wellesley, MA), it features a 700 square foot control room with stereo and 5.1 surround monitoring capabilities, a sonically transparent video projection system which eliminates the acoustical problems of computer monitors from the listening position, a custom desk designed and built specifically to eliminate acoustical interference, and careful attention to minimizing other acoustical problems, resulting in an extremely accurate and high resolution listening environment. All noisy or large equipment is located in an adjacent room and a comfortable lounge/office area with wireless internet is provided for client enjoyment.

Chicago Mastering Service features equipment and DAW platforms to meet virtually any format requirement or sonic challenge including:

Neumann VMS70 lacquer cutting lathe with SX74 cutting head, SAL74 cutting amps and Zuma variable pitch & depth computer
Ampex ATR-102 1/2" and 1/4" analog tape recorder

Sequoia 11
Sonic Studios soundBlade with NoNOISE II, Sonic EQ, and reNOVAtor
Protools LE 6 and 7
Digital Performer 7
Audio plug-ins and software from PSP, Sonic Studio, Metric Halo, Izotope, Abbey Road, Sonnox, Audiofile Engineering, Prosoniq, and others
Apple G5 dual 2GHz
Gigabyte PC, Intel Core i5, 3.2GHz

Custom-built mastering transfer console (by Shea Ako)
Music Hall and Technics turntables
SLS / Bag End monitor system

Outboard equipment from:
Crane Song
Dolby Laboratories
Empirical Labs
Lavry Engineering
Manley Laboratories
Millennia Media
Neumann
NTP
Pendulum Audio
Sonic Studio
Urei
Z-Sys