Super Audio Mastering Competitors

CEDAR Audio researches algorithms for speech enhancement and audio restoration, and implements these in a range of hardware and software products. Customers include film and TV studios, post production studios, broadcasters, mastering facilities, plus sound archives and libraries. The company is also active in the areas of surveillance and audio forensics, and work with police forces, security agencies, counter-terrorism forces, and accident investigation bureaux worldwide.

Masterdisk, founded in 1973 and owned and operated by expert engineer Scott Hull since 2008, is “one of the most enduring mastering facilities in the world” (Mix magazine). The NYC studio has mastered many of the world’s most famous records, and continues to master for major labels, indie labels and independent artists. Masterdisk masters for vinyl as well as digital: they have one of only a few existing Neumann VMS-80 lacquer cutting lathes on-site, and the expert engineers to use it to the best of its formidable capabilities.

A full-service mastering studio on the famous Hollywood Center Stage Studios lot - a location steeped in over 80 years of entertainment industry history. Owner, Gavin Lurssen, is a four-time Grammy-winning mastering engineer. Numerous records worked on by the Lurssen Mastering team have been nominated for Grammys and Oscars over the years and several have won these prestigious awards.