Coast Mastering

History

Coast Mastering is located in the historic Fantasy Studios building in Berkeley. The studio's stereo and surround rooms features Focal Stella Utopia EM front speakers; analog gear from EAR, George Massenburg Labs, Knif Audio, Maselec, and more; Bricasti conversion; and soundBlade mastering software. Piper Payne works in a stereo room with Focal Scala Utopia speakers, and including analog equipment from EAR, GML, Rupert Neve, Manley and Maselec. Coast Mastering also recently added mastering engineer Jessica Thompson, who specializes in archival and restoration. Thompson also works in Payne's room, which has a Basis turntable with custom VTL phono stage and an ATR tape machine. Coast Mastering is Michael Romanowski (Chief Mastering Engineer), Piper Payne (Mastering Engineer), Jessica Thompson (Mastering Engineer, Archival & Restorationist), Jonathan Rego (Studio Manager).

Specialties

Coast Mastering provides mastering for CD, vinyl and streaming formats as well as hi-res mastering up to 192k and 5.1 surround sound mastering. We are a certified Mastered for iTunes provider. And we can do all-analog tape-to-tape mastering. We also offer audio restoration and archiving, including large and small-scale digitization, restoration, remastering and archival consulting.