Studio

Joe Caithness Mastering is a purpose built stand alone mastering facility based in Nottingham, East Midlands, UK.

The room is equipped for hybrid audio processing with full acoustical design internally.

Audio can be processed fully analogue, digital or anything in between.

All equipment is hand picked and many pieces are designed to spec and custom built or modified.

Although gear really isn’t everything it can be of interest and helps get a picture in your mind of the studio

Monitoring by Focal

Digital to Analogue Conversion by TC ELECTRONIC and RME 

Analogue to Digital Conversion by PRISM and RME

Analogue Compression by Ted Fletcher

Analogue Equalization by Mark Watson and SPL

Digital Compression by DMG Audio, Izotope, Leapwing and more

Digital Limiting by DMG Audio, Izotope, Tokyo Dawn Labs and more

Digital Equalization by DMG Audio, Plugin Alliance, Tokyo Dawn Labs and more

Reel to Reel Playback : Tascam BR20 (maintained to factory spec)

Reference and Transfer decks by Pro-Ject and Goldring Lenco

Playback cartridges by Ortofon and Shure

Phono Pre-amplification by HI-Q custom

Cassette playback by Tascam 

MP3 Encoding by Sonnox and HOFA

Sample Rate Conversion (SRC) by Izotope

DDP Creation by HOFA

Audio Restoration by Izotope

Metering by TC Electronic

DDP Creation and Meta Data handling by HOFA

Acoustic Treatment by GIK