BreakPoint Mastering

Love getting mail like this. 🙃. Thanks for the kind words and letting me put my touch on the vinyl release. 🙏🏻

Tay Sean can do no wrong

I’ve now had a week with this piece in my studio and I have to say I’m so impressed by it. .audio makes QUALITY gear. I used to have a Dangerous Liaison in my studio as my mastering console to patch in and out different pieces in my rack. It worked out and was helpful but I never really liked it for multiple reasons (not gonna dive into that here since the focus is on this piece).

I got rid of the Liaison and I moved to point to point with my gear for a few years. But I always missed the convenience of plugging in and out different pieces and rearranging on a console with the ease of a simple button push. I kept looking at the Dutch Audio pieces. Curiosity got me. And I’m so glad it did.

This thing is incredible. It is 100% neutral in the chain. Absolutely can’t tell that it’s there, I did blind A/B tests. And it can swap inserts back and forth, Inserts in front of chain can be moved all the way to the end, it has parallel inserts with very solid blend control, mid side processing and width control, Gain k***s for pre and post inserts to drive in and out, and so much more. It is straight quality. Switches and k***s are some of the best in my rack. The ease and sound of my work has leveled up immensely from this piece alone and I’m so much more comfortable with it in front of me. Huge thanks to Jeffrey de Gans at .audio for being so helpful and working with me to do some custom bits on this piece. Incredibly smart and the nicest in the business. Happy customer here. Oh and he shipped it with a bag of stroopwafels which made everyone happy here. 🧇 🤤

Saying goodbye to the Foote Control P4S ME compressor today. It’s the first of a couple things to be moving on as the year closes. It’s heading to a studio in NYC. It served me well and was on hundreds of releases. Big rock’n’roll sound from it. The auto release was really handy and it had a way of making the low mids on certain tracks really punch through the mix. I’ll miss it but I started to use it less and less this last couple years, utilizing compression with cleaner pieces and leaving the color to my tube eqs more. Always trying to fine tune the process and learn every day.

Something special will be replacing it though. I’m really excited to update this rig and I think the results will be worth it.