Staff

Mastering Engineers

Engineers

Owner & Chief Engineer, Dana J. White -

Dana has been mastering album releases for CD since 1995. He has worked on award winning projects for some of the great indie talents as well as recording legends. He also has extensive experience with recording/mixing, broadcast audio, CD manufacturing, mastering for cassette, and CD-ROM.

Dana has studied music performance and sound recording technology at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell (BMus). He is conversant with many aspects of composition, arranging, performance, and recording production in all major genres.

Dana has been a member of the Audio Engineering Society since 1993.

In 2001 Dana founded Specialized Mastering after working for 9WEST Mastering where he served full time as principal mastering engineer. He is currently working in Portland and returns for projects in Boston.

Mastering Engineer, Mike Burke -

Michael Burke is an audio engineer and guitarist based in Boston, MA. He studied music production and engineering at the Berklee College of Music. Burke began his career in music as the lead guitarist in a band that toured the United States and Korea. After the tour Burke worked as a staff engineer at Atomic K in Minneapolis, then relocated to Connecticut where he served as a staff engineer and mastering engineer for the venerable Trod Nossel in Wallingford. Burke relocated to Boston where he is currently working as a freelance recording engineer as well a mastering engineer at Specialized Mastering in Framingham, MA.

Senior Engineer, Colin Sapp -

Colin originally hails from Flint, Michigan, where he owned and operated a 24-track analog recording and mixing studio for six years. In 1999, he relocated to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music, graduating summa cum laude in 2002. During that time he worked in music education as the Guitar Coordinator and Advanced Music Theory Instructor for the Boston Arts Academy.

In addition to being an audio engineer, Colin is a composer/performer and can be seen playing with his original modern jazz group Infinite Out, and as a freelance guitarist around Boston. He has performed with Grammy nominated Blue Note recording artist Kurt Elling, Grammy award winning Concord Picante recording artist Dave Samuels and numerous independent artists in and around Boston. He is also the Assistant Director of the Berklee Saturday Preparatory School at the Boston Arts Academy.

Colin brings over ten years of audio experience. He has mastered, produced, consulted and engineered many recording projects. He has been mastering album projects with Specialized Mastering since 2003. Colin brings an extremely refined ear and a vast musicality to the mastering process.