After almost ten years at audio recording mainstay The Bakery, Mastering Engineer Peter Hewitt-Dutton looks back with pride at a history of gorgeous mastering work and gazes forward with anticipation thanks to his faith in NUGEN Audio’s Monofilter when it comes to cutting vinyls.
“For vinyl, you have to control the depth of the groove very carefully,” Hewitt-Dutton explained in a press release. “If it goes too deep, it can destroy the equipment. If it goes too shallow, you create a groove that doesn’t play. The main culprit for creating problems in that area is stereo bass; Monofilter is designed specifically to deal with that. It provides a ton of control on how much we’re monitoring the bass and where.”
The native Londoner has worked with numerous big names during his tenure at The Bakery, including Rufus Wainwright, Ringo Starr and Billie Eilish. With his expertise, the precision required for vinyl cutting has led Hewitt-Dutton and the rest of The Bakery to standardize their toolkits with the Monofilter to continue their reliability among their renowned clientele.
“Every other similar solution we’ve used in the past is kind of stepped and we have to just refer to our settings, whereas the NUGEN version offers much more control over what we’re doing,” Hewitt-Dutton said in the press release. “Monofilter allows us to pick the exact point we need to mono the bass in order to get the depth we want.”
