Bakery Mastering

Audio mastering & vinyl mastering at the heart of the entertainment capital. Located at the Sony Pictures Lot in Culver City, Los Angeles, California. The Bakery’s mastering philosophy stems from over 45 years of sonic excellence upheld by Doug Sax of the famed Mastering Lab. Our mastering signal flow features a wide array of custom electronics. From the tape machines to our equalizers, compressors, limiters, A/D&D/A converters, monitoring amplifiers, and console. All are purpose-designed and handcrafted for the most optimum audio mastering experience. Despite the evolution of the high resolution download, audio mastering for CD remains an integral part of our production. We offer a DDP format for electronic delivery of listening references. This results in more secure and quicker turnaround times for the client and faster delivery to the CD manufacturer. We supply our DDP player software for your convenience. We also offer secure delivery of WAV masters to our clients. Whichever audio format you prefer, we will deliver as requested. Contact us with more details on your mastering project and we will guide you every step of the way! Affectionately named “RoboLathe,” The Bakery’s vinyl cutting lathe is unlike any other – meeting the sonic demands of modern music production with the vinyl format. Our Neumann VMS 70 lathe with the SX-74 cutterhead is powered by a DSP-based platform (patent-pending) designed by The Bakery’s owner, Eric Boulanger. In addition to sonics never before achieved with vinyl, this system is fully automated ensuring nuances perfected in mastering are saved, and fully repeatable. Previously famed mastering engineer Stan Ricker’s lathe (noted for cutting a large portion of Mobile Fidelity’s catalog), we have maintained #RoboLathe’s half speed cutting capabilities. Combined Vinyl Mastering with the Bakery’s experienced and artistic vinyl mastering engineers, you will receive the very best reproduction of your music