Coast Mastering – a new a mastering facility in Berkeley, California – has been launched by Michael Romanowski, along with mastering engineer Piper Payne and the archival/restoration/mastering expertise of Jessica Thompson. Mastering apprentice Drew Zercoe rounds out the team who will operate custom-built mastering rooms offering both analogue stereo and surround mastering.

Acoustic tuning for the new studios is currently being completed by Bob Hodas, and the facility will feature Focal monitors and Bricasti converters, among other top equipment, throughout the three studios.

‘There is plenty of great music being made throughout the world, and we have many international clients,’ Romanowski says. ‘But the Bay Area is still a central location for an extremely diverse collection of solo artists, bands, and game and filmmakers, and we feel that they all deserve a full-service mastering facility with proper room acoustics and speakers, and the highest quality analogue outboard gear.

‘We are carrying on the legacy of my previous San Francisco studios, Michael Romanowski Mastering and Coast Recorders, and taking it into the future with our new name Coast Mastering, while also bringing the same aspects of audio quality, community, and a love of music into our new facility,’ he adds.

The new Coast Mastering facility is located within the grounds of the renowned Fantasy Studio complex. The area has easy parking, a great restaurant scene, and is easily accessible from San Francisco, Marin and all points in the East Bay.

Grammy-nominated, Romanowski has mastered music in the San Francisco Bay Area since his move from Nashville in 1994. He is a Trustee of the San Francisco chapter of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), and is on the National Producer & Engineers Wing Advisory Council.

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