The sound you’ve been hearing in your head — brought to life.
Galup Mastering is a world-class private mastering facility built around a rare, custom analog chain and a philosophy that great sound speaks for itself. Every project gets the full weight of that chain — and a lifetime of careful listening.
Mark Galup has spent a career in pursuit of one thing: sound that moves people.
As an award-winning engineer, producer, and sound designer, Mark has worked across music, media, and major label projects with artists and clients including Steve Earle, Margo Price, Allen Stone, Better Than Ezra, Quincy Jones, Mariah Carey, Sony, Audible, Kobalt, and more.
Galup Mastering is his private facility — built piece by piece with custom and modified equipment chosen for one reason: it sounds incredible. The analog chain runs through the legendary Neve Disk Mastering and Sontec equalizers, a custom equalizers and a tube limiter by Frank Lacy, and rare devices sourced after years of searching. The signal path is full-fidelity and uncompromising — hardware chosen by ear because nothing else sounds quite like it.
Mark has Produced, Engineered, Sound Designed, Mixed, and Mastered countless works for Artists, Major Labels, Publishers, and Industry-leading Commercial Clients, such as Sony, Audible, Kobalt, The Bus, Ole, Big Yellow Dog, and more. Recent highlights include Steve Earle, Quincy Jones, Mariah Carey, Gashi, Kevin Griffin, Claire Guerreso, Better Than Ezra, Frank Romano, Allen Stone, Daniel Tashian, John Condit, Parker Gispert, Andrew Petroff, Ian Fitchuk, Lincoln Parish, Jeremy Ivey, Margo Price, Lily Hiatt, The Nobility, Wes Bailey, Sid Sriram, The Explorers Club, The Inscape, Secret Sisters, Natalie Prass, K.S. Rhoads, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Deer Tick, and more.
Mastering is not one size fits all. A great Mastering Engineer:
Is an expert in the entire record-making process, and has a working knowledge of the best-sounding, most effective sonics in each genre.
Has worked out every detail of their mastering process and equipment chain - from analog hardware, to cables and power supplies - maximizing fidelity and translation for all systems - from AirPods, to Car Speakers, to Audiophile Systems.
You can hear and feel the difference between an average and a great Master.
Gear
The core of a great mastering system is full-range reference Monitoring, a precision Analog Chain, and full-fidelity DAC and ADC Conversion.
Mark’s analog chain is built around custom equalizers and a tube limiter expertly built by the great Frank Lacy (Lucas Engineering, JFL Audio), along with the legendary Sontec, and Neve Disk Mastering equalizers. Using this full-fidelity pure path, with color pieces injected when desired, your music is preserved and enhanced to new levels of sonic impact and clarity.
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