Tony "Jack the Bear" Mantz
Owner and founder of Jack the Bear's Deluxe Mastering.
Mastering has taken up the majority of his career since starting work in the music business in 1981. He's had a stint at recording and mixing, and a concurrent career in radio on Toronto's CFNY as an announcer, as well as Melbourne's Triple M, but thankfully found mastering as his calling.
Tony's been lucky enough to have travelled extensively around the world, meeting and learning from some of the best in the business, and was trained in the art of vinyl mastering by Rick Essig at Frankford Wayne Mastering Labs, NYC. This was the same studio that that produced the likes of Tom Coyne and Herb Powers.
Tony (Jack to most people) started freelance mastering work in 1990. In 1999 shop was set up at Melbourne's Sing Sing Studios, and after establishing himself as one of the country's most sought after engineers, he made the break in early 2006 to build his dream facility.
With an audio background of 24 years and in his 15th year of mastering professionally, Adam Dempsey brings a wealth of mastering experience on all music genres to Deluxe Mastering - a world-class mastering service in the heart of Melbourne's burgeoning muso-friendly Brunswick.
Formerly Senior Mastering Engineer at Australia’s first independent mastering facility, Adam’s background combines a mutual cross-over with Jack in rock/pop, with experience in everything from jazz to hip hop, folk and blues (including ARIA Award, Bell Award and Mo Award winning & nominated releases) as well as a keenness for high definition audio and an ear for detail.
Adam’s passion for music and sound began at an early age with a 1/4” reel tape recorder, later progressing to cassette tape editing on a “boombox” with its 5 band graphic equaliser. In 1985 he delved into public radio as a volunteer announcer and trainer, being one of the founders of what is now Yarra Valley FM. This also led him to mobile disco DJ work, 8 track recording, a stint in film sound as a boom operator, engineering studies at Melbourne’s renowned Sing Sing and Metropolis studios, live sound mixing, and as a drummer for 14 years in several gigging bands around Melbourne.
Also below is a listing of Adams various clients & world class artists such as Joe Chindamo, Sime Nugent, White Lion, Neil Murray (Warumpi Band), Way Out West, Lamplight, Nina Ferro, Adam Simmons, Fiona Burnett, Coloured Stone, Coco's Lunch (including U.S. Folk Song of the Year), Kate Vigo, drumming legend Allan Browne, Michelle Nicole, Katie Noonan, Broderick Smith, Nick Charles, Marie Wilson (live album), Dan Hall (Taxiride), renowned bluesmen Lloyd Spiegel and CW Stoneking, Plastic Palace Alice, The Vasco Era, My Disco (7” EP), The Dili Allstars’ “Liberdade”, The Grand Silent System, Walt Disney Records, comedians Lano & Woodley and Eddie Perfect, six years of the ABC Heywire series for Triple J and regional radio, and countless others.
Adam is proud to remain a RRR and 3PBS subscriber discounter, supporting independent radio and music.
He can be contacted at adam@deluxemastering.com or on +61 (0) 407 520 442.
Further details can be found at Adam’s MySpace page:
www.myspace.com/adamdempsey
You can find a gallery of his Album Covers here.
ADAM'S CREDITS INCLUDE:
Byron Scullin
Byron's career began with a formal musical training at Melbourne University after which he found work as a freelance audio engineer. During his early freelance years Byron worked over a diverse field of projects, from mixing bands in pubs, clubs and at festivals to working on commercial musicals and corporate events. Byron has also worked on community radio projects, television outside broadcasts, and for many independent and commercial theatre and dance productions.
In 1998 Byron began to focus further on audio post-production and commenced his mastering training under Franc Tetaz at Moose Mastering in Richmond. Byron's time at Moose found him becoming acquainted with the techniques for mastering across a broad range of music styles and genres. Byron also assisted in post-production work on a number of album, film and DVD projects completed at Moose. While at Moose Byron also began to write and produce music for theatre and dance productions. Byron has completed many original scores and sound designs for film, television, theatre, dance and installation.
As a mastering engineer, Byron brings all of this musical and technical experience to his work in assisting other artists to get the best possible result from their own projects. While there is a highly technical element to mastering, Byron's approach to any mastering project is fundamentally musical. Tackling each project's unique requirements from this musical basis allows artists to better understand how their music is treated in this final stage of production.
Byron is comfortable with the requirements for mastering many different types of music - from mainstream styles like rock, pop, dance and hip-hop through to acoustic music such as jazz, orchestral, chamber ensemble and folk. New music is also one of Byron's special areas of interest - experimental instrumental and electronic music, from noise music to free improvisation, Byron is sympathetic to the needs of those artists pushing boundaries of what is possible for recorded music. DVD, 5.1 and Hi-Def work is also an area where Byron can make the most of the potential these extended formats offer.
Further details can be found at Byron's home-page www.byronscullin.com or MySpace - www.myspace.com/bjscullin