MUSIC|MEDIA|DESIGN… New Home for Mastering by Dave Davis
Comments(0) It’s true! I’ve left the sound design world behind to refocus on music. Job 1 for me now: Mastering CDs and New Media!
I have a few other things I’m working on, including a new kind of record label. But as usual, working on music is my real passion. I’ve worked out a way to have the best of all possible worlds, working in all the best (and my former!) rooms in town.
Most of all I hope this change is painless and transparent to the people I work with, recording artists. For people who’ve worked with me at QCA or Sound Images or UltraInteractive, but aren’t sure what to do now, it’s simple: Go wherever you’re used to going! All 3 companies can now accept projects from all of my past clients, and schedule me for work. Go wherever you’re most comfortable, or used to working. Rates are pretty close either way, but may be a little more or less depending on how your project breaks down. And of course, you can just ping me right here, at MUSIC|MEDIA|DESIGN, my new professional home.
For attended sessions or analog work, we should probably speak directly. First, the number of people, technical needs, even time of day might lean me towards one facility or another. This brings up one of the real benefit of this move for me personally. It’s fun to specs and route the projects that come through here to the room that best fits the job. When you work someplace, part of the job is selling the room. No more. At Sound Images, the Lipinski L707 monitors and Bel Canto amp are fed by a very unique, special interface, based on the SonicStudio 305. A fully-keyed SonicStudio soundBlade system is there, still loaded with a lot of my own custom goodies. QCA has been greatly improved by Ashley Shephard’s tenure there since my departure… I like his Lynx PCI-based interface and plug suite, but I LOVE the Sontec eq that’s permanently in-line. I bring my own interfaces and toys as well, as I’ve really gotten hooked on 80-bit processors and paths. Like many mastering guys, I’m a gear-head at heart!
So that’s it. I’m really looking forward to this new phase of my career. If you’re working on a CD or music DVD release, call me. And if you’re working on digital-only stuff, or other new media music release then definitely call me!