Equipment

Equalization

  • Sontec MES-462 mastering equalizer
  • Avalon 2077 mastering equalizer
  • Focusrite Blue 315 mkII mastering equalizer (modified by Jonte Knif)
  • Sontec MEP-250-C equalizer (modified)

Compression

  • Manley VariMU tube compressor (modified)
  • Crane Song STC-8 compressor
  • Neve Portico II Master Processor (modified)
  • Foote Control Systems PS3-ME (modified)
  • Jünger Accent 2 parallel compressor

Monitoring

  • Acoustics by Jochen Veith & Michel Schreiber, ACM Acoustics, THX Europe
  • 5x Lipinski 707 speakers
  • 2x JL Audio Fathom f112 subwoofers
  • 5x Ritterbusch custom amplification

DAW & Authoring

  • Steinberg Wavelab + AudioCube DDP
  • Steinberg Nuendo 5.1 workstation
  • Sadie DSD 8 with full SACD authoring
  • Minnetonka Discwelder Chrome DVD-Audio
  • Minnetonka Audio MLP encoding
  • Sonoris DDP OEM for online client refs

Conversion & SRC

  • Mytek 8×192 8 channel 192 kHz A/D & D/A
  • XTA level & D/A Conversion
  • Sadie DSD Sample Rate Conversion

Miscellaneous

  • Headphones by Grado Labs, Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic and Sony
  • Mogami & Apogee cables on analog
  • MTI cables on all digital connections
  • Sony 42″ plasma display (sound to picture)
  • 40 Terabyte storage server
  • Client FTP server on 40 GBit/s backbone