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MASTERING SUITE
Our San Diego mastering suite is outfitted for critical listening. With full-spectrum acoustic treatment based on the space’s architecture, the suite maintains a favorable frequency and time domain response. Combined with active bass trapping from PSI and industry-leading room correction from Trinnov, we are able to finish records in a listening environment that is pleasant but quite revealing. Our flagship studio houses a set of Ex Machina Quasar Mk II monitors behind a Sterling Modular console.
The suite also hosts a wide selection of analog gear that boasts industry-leading performance and transparency to ensure that mixes and stems are treated with the care that they deserve. With 64 analog outputs and several analog summing mixers on hand, Rose Quart is one of the few in the world capable of offering analog stem mastering for up to 32 stereo stems at such a high standard. Each analog (and digital) connection in the studio is made via Mogami Gold or Platinum. In addition to our carefully crafted analog signal chain, we have a suite of digital options in the form of plug-ins and software programs.
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Knif Soma Passive Tube Mastering Equalizer
Knif Vari Mu II Tube Mastering Compressor
Chandler Curve Bender Mastering Equalizer
Undertone UnFairchild 670M II Tube Mastering Compressor
Rupert Neve Designs 511 Preamplifiers
Rupert Neve Designs 5059 Satellite Analog Summing Mixer
D.W. Fearn VT-2 Stereo Tube Preamplifer
GOLY Porter Grinder Op-Amp Mastering Equalizer
Hendyamps “Tandon” Michelangelo Tube Mastering Equalizer
D.A.V. Broadhurst Gardens No.3 Mastering Equalizer
D.A.V. Broadhurst Gardens No.4 Mastering Limiter
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Steinberg Wavelab Pro 11
Pro Tools HDX
Izotope RX 10 Advanced
Cockos REAPER
Proprietary Breakaway Dynamics AudioDNA
Plugins from DMG, Oeksound, Acustica, Softube, Sonnox, Tokyo Dawn Labs, Fabfilter, Metric Halo… and too many more to name.
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Ex Machina Quasar Mk II 3-Way Main Monitors
Crane Song Avocet IIA Monitor Controller
Audeze LCD-X Planar Magnetic Headphones
Trinnov Room Optimizer
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Lynx Hilo Reference Grade 192kHz AD/DA Mastering Converter
Burl Mothership B80 with 64 channels of DA and 8 channels of AD Conversion
Rupert Neve Designs Master Bus Converter