In Mastering, Experience Counts

At Paul Stubblebine Mastering and DVD our team of engineers have a combined 40 years of mastering experience. We believe that this experience, together with our collection of the very best gear available today, makes us the number one choice for mastering in the Bay Area. We have recently added DVD authoring capability to our range of services and here again we continue to show our commitment to offering the highest quality available to our customers.

The Engineers

Paul Stubblebine
Paul has been a widely respected member of the mastering fraternity on a national level for the last 25 years. He has a vast amount of experience in working with almost every kind of music and format.

Michael Romanowski
Michael is a very experienced engineer who has worked at Rocket Lab and more recently at The Plant in Sausalito.

John Greenham
John is originally from England and has many years of experience in both the music and engineering fields. He has been engineering at Paul Stubblebine Mastering for the last 4 years.

The Gear

Digital Audio Workstation
We use both the Sonic Solutions USP system and the new HDSP system for mastering in hi-res surround.

Equalization and Compression
In the analog realm we mainly use the custom built EAR EQ and limiter / compressors, and the Millenium NSEQ-2 and TCL-2. In the digital world, we use the Weiss EQ1, the TC System 6000, and the Z Systems z-Q6 and z-CL6. Both the TC and Z Systems gear are surround capable.

A/D, D/A, and D/D Conversion
W e have three Pacific Microsonics Model 2’s that handle both the A/D conversion and the fold down from 24 to 16 bit to go to CD.

Analog Tape Machines
We feature 3 ATR machines, including the 1’ machine, with custom built tube electronics and a variety of head configurations to handle both stereo and surround.

What the Clients Say:

"Paul has been mastering my records for over 20 years and has always been a big asset to my projects. His knowledge of High Resolution recording formats, and his expertise as a recording engineer are invaluable. He’s a trusted friend and collegue."
Leslie Ann Jones
Recording Engineer/Producer
Director of Music Recording
And Scoring
Skywalker Sound

DVD Audio

The Format
The exciting world of DVD-A is nowavailable to you here in the Bay Area. Explore the possibilities of high resolution stereo or surround, combined with video
and graphics, that has everyone talking about DVD. Once your project has been mastered, it is sent to our authoring room where the audio, video, and graphics are assembled and authored using the DVD Audio Creator system.

The Gear
At the heart of our system is the Sonic Solutions HDSP system. It is capable of capturing up to 8 channels of 24 bit audio at sample rates as high as 192khz. For signal processing we feature hi-res
compression and EQ from Z systems, compression EQ and reverb from TC electonics, and A/D or D/A conversion from Pacific Microsonics.

DVD Video

The Format
Beautiful MPEG-2 video streams, stunning graphics, interactivity, web/DVD integration, and more. Whether it is music videos, corporate training materials, or even full length feature films, we are up to the task.

The Gear
Once again, Sonic Solutions is at the heart of things, this time the Sonic DVD Creator system. This is a state of the art system featuring one of the best encoders on the market. Variable bit rate encoding ensures optimum picture quality. We handle most of the standard input formats.