The most important tools for every mastering engineer are their ears, their experience, and their taste. Those three things place all other tools in their proper context.

When mastering, I love to use both analog and digital gear. Every song is different, and will receive a different combination of the tools at my disposal to achieve the artist’s vision for a song. Here’s a look at the different pieces of gear and plugins that I can choose from.

Conversion

Lynx Hilo Mastering Grade Converters

Burl B2 ADC

Universal Audio Apollo X Series Converters

Acoustic Treatment

GIK Acoustics Corner Bass Traps

GIK Acoustics Absorption Panels

Monitoring

Barefoot Footprint 01 Monitors with Sound Anchor Stands

Sennheiser HD 650s

Slate VSX Headphone System

Beyerdynamic DT880 Pros (Sonarworks Individually Calibrated)

Shure 1840 Headphones

Outboard

Bettermaker Mastering Limiter 2.0

Bettermaker Mastering EQ

Wesaudio NG Bus Comp

SSL Fusion

Hendyamps Michelangelo EQ

Hendyamps Da Vinci Stereo Tube Amplifier

Foote Control Systems EX 1 Stereo Compressor

Heritage Audio Successor Bus Compressor

Rupert Neve Designs 5043 Stereo Compressor

Louder Than Liftoff Chroma Tone Amps

Wesaudio Hyperion EQ

Plugins

Plugin Alliance - all plugins

Universal Audio - all plugins

Kush Audio - all plugins

Waves - too many to list

Slate Digital - all plugins

Oeksound - all plugins

Izotope - Ozone Advanced, RX, Neutron Advanced

Soundtheory - Gullfoss

Acustica Audio - El Rey, Gainstation, Celestial, Taupe

Leapwing - Dynone

….plus more individual plugins from many different manufacturers.