Brian Gardner - Mastering "Grind n' Get It" by The K.I.D.

'Big Bass' Brian Gardner, Mastering "Grind n' Get It" by "The K.I.D." (recorded and mixed by Daniel Duskin). This track features Crooked I on the 3rd verse.
Brian is arguably the most "in-demand" Mastering Engineer in the world... Nicki Minaj, Kendrick Lamar, Travis Barker, Kitten, Lords of Acid, SlaughterHouse, Dirty Heads, Kreayshawn, Macy Gray, DMX, Outkast, Suicidal Tendencies, Snoop Dogg, Seal, No Doubt, Michael Jackson, Linkin Park, Eminem, Eazy E, Diddy, Cypress Hill, Blanco, Black Eyed Peas, and many more.

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Brian's setup is fascinating. Every piece of gear is modified and improved (even if it's just the power supply), and most of his gear is a custom built analog mastering console, which features a compressor (based on the design of the SSL bus compressor) and an Passive Equalizer. When you bring him your digital file to get mastered, it gets converted to analog with a D/A Lavry Gold, goes through his mastering console, and then gets converted back to digital through his A/D Lavry Gold. Both Larry's are clocked by Antelope's flagship digital clock. He often doesn't even touch the compressor, and has a very minimalist approach to EQ. To get it loud, he slams the audio into the A/D Lavry Gold until it is well into the red (using it's "Soft Saturation" algorithm, with "DC Removal" turned on). If he needs more warmth, he has an Empirical Labs FATSO (which is usually turned off). If he needs even more volume, he'll add a decibel or so with the WAVES L2 after the A/D Lavry Gold. If he needs even more tweaking, he has some classic Steinberg plugins that he opens up in WaveLab.