What was the concept behind The Tony Maserati Artist Signature Collection?
“Well, the concept was to create or, in a way, replicate patches of equipment, chains and settings of equipment that I’ve been using for many, many years—whether a vocal chain or a particular chain with settings I use for kick drum. Obviously, all of them are specific for different kinds of instruments. The engineers at Waves listened to examples of music with my chain and without, and we talked quite extensively about how I achieved those, and what the settings were, things like that. We didn’t do any cloning, but we did quite a lot of A/B listening. Essentially, we got very close to several of the chains that I use on a daily basis.” Was this a long process? How did it work exactly? “”It took us about eight months to do, because I was in the middle of mixing three or four records at the time. I worked primarily with one of the Waves engineers and then he brought it to everyone else. Essentially, we spoke a few times a week. I would work on things, send him emails, and audio examples,
