Our facility occupies approximately 1,400 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 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.
Chicago Mastering Service features equipment and DAW platforms to meet virtually any format requirement or sonic challenge including:
Recorders
- Ampex ATR-102 1/2″ and 1/4″ analog tape recorder
- Sony PCM-R500 DAT recorder
- Nakamichi CR-7 cassette tape recorder (modified)
Software and Hardware
- WaveLab Pro 12
- Apple M1 Max Mac Studio
Software and Hardware
- Tokyo Dawn
- DMG Audio
- PSP
- Sonic Studio
- Metric Halo
- Izotope
- Abbey Road
- Sonnox
- Prosoniq
- Weiss
- Fabfilter
- Oeksound
- Schwabe Digital
- and others
Outboard equipment from
- Crane Song
- Dangerous Music
- Dolby Laboratories
- Empirical Labs
- Forssell Technologies Inc
- Lynx Studio Technology
- RME
- Neumann
- Pendulum Audio
- Thermionic Culture Ltd
