Bob Katz – studio tour 1 – rack gear
In this video, mastering master Bob Katz gives us a tour of the rack processors in his mastering room at Digital Domain.
Here is a list of the gear we look at:
- Maselec ML4 – Multiband analogue compressor
- video monitor of the audio monitoring
- Avocet remote – monitor controller
- TC system 6000 remote – fully loaded
- “Bettermaker” – digitally controlled analogue EQ
- Dangerous Music – Dangerous Bax EQ
- API 2500 – for rock attitude!
- ANAMOD – ATS1 – tape simulator
- IJ research K1 – mastering transfer console – for routing/patching
- Pendulum ES8 – analogue vari-MU tube compressor with transformers
- “Bob’s Blender” – for parallel compression and blending
- Maselec MEA-2 – 4 band analogue parametric EQ
Owen: “I was going to ask you later if there are any pieces of analogue gear which do things that you still can’t achieve with plug ins and I think the tour answers that question. Obviously you still get something from them (analogue processors) that you’re not going to get from plug-ins, right?”
Bob: “That’s correct!”