Why a human engineer, not an algorithm
Everything around music is racing toward AI. Auto-mastering, auto-mixing, auto-everything. Faster, cheaper, untouched by another human.
We won't put an AI mastering model on this platform. Not because we don't respect what algorithms can do - we do. But the best records come out of a relationship: an engineer and an artist pressing play at the same time, listening to the same moment, having the same conversation about what it could become. People who know what they're talking about, talking.
That's the bet SoundAssist is built on. Life is about people meeting and making each other better, and art is no different. The studio is the floor that conversation needs, so the work can be judged on what it actually is.
First release or fifth album, stuck in pre-production or ready to master - you get a human on the other side of the track. Whatever question you have, whatever stage you're in, send it. We'll meet you there.
Our facility
Your music plays back through ATC SCM50ASL Pro main monitors and dual ATC SCS70 Pro subwoofers - one of the most trusted reference setups in world-class mastering facilities.
The room is acoustically treated and tuned. What we hear is what your master sounds like - not a coloured representation.
Equipment
Monitoring
- ATC SCM50 ASL PRO loudspeakers
- ATC SCS70 dual subwoofers
- Benchmark DAC3 HGC
- PSI Audio AVAA C214 bass traps
- Grimm SQM XLR cabling
- Furutech Alpha power cabling
- Audioquest Diamond USB cabling
- Audioquest power filtering
- 64-core audio workstation with USB filter
Processing
- Knif Soma
- Maselec MLA-4 & MEA-2
- DW-Fearn VT-5
- Sontec MES-432D9D
- TC Electronics System 6000
- Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor
- FabFilter plugins
- Plugin Alliance plugins
- Acoustica Audio plugins
What this means for your music
Mixing and mastering decisions made on bad monitoring travel badly. Our studio and our engineers only work with the most transparent gear we can put in a room - so we can hear your music as it actually is, and help you get it where it deserves to be.
We don't want to change your sound. We want to assist it to its best.
That's why: SoundAssist.