Gearbox Productions

Vinyl Master Cutting:
1967 Haeco Scully disc cutting lathe with Westrex (Western Electric) 3DIIA cutting head and amps

Equalisation:
Bespoke all-valve mastering EQ and mixing console built for Decca ~1958; Maselec MEA-2 Master Series EQ; Original Lang Pultec EQ; Urei high and low pass filters; Maselec MTC-2 Master Control with high and low-pass filters, stereo width control and elliptical filter

Dynamics:
2x Telefunken U73b compressor / limiter; Maselec MLA-2 Compressor, Maselec MDS-2 De-Esser

Monitoring and Playback:
Speakers: Tannoy 15" Monitor Gold 'Berkeley'; Audio Note AN-E LX/HE; Original Rogers LS3/5A; Audio Note AX-ONE

Amplifiers: Audio Note Tomei stereo power amplifier; Audio Note M6 Phono pre-amplifier; Audio Note Meishu integrated amplifier (300B valves)

Turntables: Audio Note TT-TWO; EMT 948; Rega RP1

Tonearms: Audio Note ARM-TWO; Vintage Ortofon RMG 309 12" tonearm; Jelco TS-550L 12" tonearm

Cartridges: Audio Note IO1; EMT TSD15; EMT TND65 for 78rpm records; Denon DL103; Vintage Ortofon S15-T; Vintage Ortofon SPU mono; Assorted vintage Ortofon mono and stereo MC cartridges

Audio Note CD4.1x CD player; Nakamichi DR-2 cassette deck

Audio Note Sogon and Lexus cabling; Chord Anthem Reference and ChameleonPlus cabling

Tape:
Studer C37: 1965 All-valve 1/4" tape machine with interchangeable stereo and full-face mono head, 7.5 and 15ips

Studer H37: 1969 all-valve 1/2" tape machine with interchangeable 3-track and 4-track head. One of two left in the world, 7.5 and 15ips

Philips Pro 51 EL3501: 1965 1/4", 15 and 30ips

Studer A67: 1/4" interchangeable 1/4-track and 1/2-track; 3.75, 7.5 and 15ips

Digital & Restoration:
Apogee Symphony I/O with Symphony 64 Thunderbridge up to 192kHz; Wavelab, Izotope RX

We specialise in reel-to-reel tape and vinyl mastering with our all-valve signal path, hi-fidelity digital masters (up to 192kHz), tape processing and 'layback' bringing special analogue warmth to your mixes, AAA and Direct-to-Disc recording and production. We have curated the best of vintage and modern equipment for our studio - tape machines for all formats and speeds, rare mastering equalisation dynamic outboard equipment and hi-end Audio Note and vintage monitoring playback systems.