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Mastering Playback Systems

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sui-city:
To all you mastering engineers.

I was wondering what sorts of playback systems are most commonly used in mastering studios.

Do all of you have Alsihad systems? 2-trk Tape?

And how do you like to receive the tracks that you are going to master? What format do you ask your clients to give you?

bblackwood:
Most mastering studios will offer 1/4" and 1/2" analog playback as well as playback of digital files. ProTools isn't very common, but the audio files use din PT are SDII or WAV, so they can be played back easily enough.

sui-city:
Thanks again Brad.

What format do you receive things in? Do your clients give you 1/4" or 1/2" tapes? Or do you load it onto tape yourself?

bblackwood:
sui-city wrote on Sat, 24 April 2004 18:01
What format do you receive things in?

Digital files, analog tape.

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Do your clients give you 1/4" or 1/2" tapes?

Yep, and it seems to be picking up a little, though still only accounts for maybe 10-15% of all projects.

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Or do you load it onto tape yourself?

No, my machine is truly a 'mastering machine' - it's one built by Studer with two repro heads for cutting vinyl (preview head and playback head) and no record functions whatsoever. If they want tape, they send it on tape...

mcsnare:
I had a project recently where we used the studio's ATR 102 1/2" to "warm up" some digital files. It worked great on some tunes, not as well on others.....
Dave

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