Greg Ondo will be back at the Studio on May 18th for another Club Cubase event. Please RSVP to studio@michaelromanowski.com if you want to have any questions answers about Steinberg products usage, and to hear Greg’s great in-depth knowledge of the systems.
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Michael Romanowski Masters “Laurel Zucker” Project for Producer Leslie Ann Jones
Award-winning Artist’s New “Journeys” Album of Flute Concertos Mastered in San Francisco
San Francisco, CA – December 1, 2011 – Mastering Engineer Michael Romanowski recently completed the CD master for award-winning artist Laurel Zucker’s new “Journeys” release. The album of Zucker’s original flute concertos was produced by Laurel Zucker and long-time Bay Area recording engineer and producer Leslie Ann Jones and recorded at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, CA. Ms. Jones brought the project to Romanowski’s San Francisco mastering studio and listened back on the studio’s Focal Grand Utopia speakers making final adjustments for the master of Zucker’s flute performances. Ms. Jones is currently mastering several projects with Romanowski at his SF studio.
“Michael always manages to sprinkle just the right amount of fairy dust on my mixes,” says Ms. Jones. “His mastering suite is a great place to make critical decisions when necessary.”
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This got picked up by Mixonline. Thanks Mix!
Mastering Engineer Michael Romanowski Adds “Requisite Audio” Limiter to his San Francisco Studio
San Francisco, CA – October 19, 2011 – Mastering Engineer Michael Romanowski recently installed the Requisite Audio L2M Mk III M/S Version dual channel mastering limiter in his San Francisco mastering studio. The L2M Mk III is an optical limiter based on classic designs of the early 1960s featuring point-to-point hand-wiring, as they were, but includes many technical improvements aimed at offering the mastering engineer specialized capabilities such as make-up gain settings to +17dB in 1dB stepped increments, control of vacuum tube harmonics, frequency-based limiter response and more. Romanowski has a thriving audio mastering business in the heart of San Francisco, serving the diverse local music community as well as national and international clients.
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We are proud to announce that Michael has just become the new President of the San Francisco NARAS Chapter. Michael was recently elected by the board of governors to the office of Vice President. The previous President, Michael Winger, has accepted the job of Executive Director of the chapter. Michael stepped up to the new role. In addition, Michael will remain chair of the Producers and engineers wing of the chapter. Engineer veteran Judy Kirschner will join the P&E wing as co-chair.
Gren Ondo will be coming back to the Bay Area to show some new Steinberg software and hardware. Please get in touch with me at studio@michaelromanowski.com to let me know if you are coming. The event will be held again at the studio at 1340 Mission Street, San Francisco CA 94104
These events are getting larger and larger. Space is somewhat limited, so a head count is much appreciated.
Last time we met, Greg was not able to come, so we had a 3 hour session talking about mastering. A full house full of great questions. We may touch on that a bit this time, but only as a follow up. We will do the mastering discussion again at a later date.
Check out the great article by Michael Gallant for Universal Audio describing the Ampex ATR 102.
UA came to the studio and modeled our ATR 102 that had been modified for 1″ record and playback. I think they did an excellent job reproducing the character of this machine. Thanks to all UA for all of their hard work to capture a very important and seminal sound in the record making process.
Posted by Michael Gallant on September 19, 2011 10:39:31 AM PT
The Ampex ATR-102 Professional Tape Recorder.
For more than three decades, the Ampex® ATR-102 two-channel tape recorder has imparted the final cohesive sound to countless recordings with its distinctive low-end punch and ability to provide unique saturation and color. Even circa 2011, where a huge number of recordings are tracked and mixed completely within the digital realm with no analog processing whatsoever, many an audio engineer still want to pass an album’s final mixdown through the ATR-102 to give it that final mastering “glue.”
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икониApril 25 2011
Club Cubase San Francisco is pleased to announce their next meeting to be held on Monday April 25th at Michael Romanowski Mastering. This month Greg Ondo from Steinberg North America will be showcasing the new features of Cubase 6 including new drum editing tools, VST Amp Rack, Comping, VST Note Expression, HALion Sonic SE and much more. Don’t miss this speciall opportunity to see this exciting new Cubase version in action. Please RSVP to Michael Romanowski at Studio@Michaelomanowski.com
Congratulations Rob on the great review on your latest release “One Cloud” !! Especially noteworthy as the review came from the guy who invented the instrument. Emmett Chapman.
Sometimes one cloud is all you need.
It follows you around, something to proudly point to wherever you go. And if your live gig doesn’t turn out as planned, you’ve got this silver lined CD to stand in for you. (I must say though, I’m pretty sure Rob Martino can play almost all of this CD live any time he wants to.)
And yes, it’s a treasure, and I have no doubt, also a milestone for Rob.
It’s all solo Stick and The Stick sure sounds good! There are almost no effects in the foreground Stick sound. The “orchestra” of textures, voicings and expressions are all from his hands. The entertainment value alone is high, as it’s fascinating to hear what one artist can extract from a single musical instrument live in a recording studio – strumming effects, harp like arpeggios, a broad dynamic range, always a dialogue between the hands, and of course those familiar passing tone embellishments from his bass 4ths tuning.
My biggest surprise was in the variety of rhythmic grooves he creates throughout the album. In his two extended songs, “Circle” and “Enigma”, the rhythmic element becomes even more intense as he stretches out. This more relaxed yet more dynamic mode of play might foretell a future direction in his musical art!
And yes, I hear the “vintage” sound of Michael Romanowski’s special mastering process. It’s somehow an American electric guitar sound with a metallic ring from bass and melody sides. Rob doesn’t even bother to change timbers from song to song. It’s always his same unique sound of well recorded but largely unprocessed Stick strings through dual in-phase Villex PASV-4 pickups. I believe such faithful sonic consistency is the mark of a true stylist, putting ones best foot forward at all times, in plain shoes. Continue reading “Rob Martino “One Cloud” review” »
