About The Old Quarry

Hi! I’m Nick Messitte, founder of The Old Quarry. I’m an engineer with over 15 years of experience in genres as various as rock, indie, mood pop, jazz, hip hop, prog, EDM, and musical theater. My passions lie in giving independent musicians everything they need to compete with—and hopefully outshine—big-budget major-label releases.

This informs everything I do at the Old Quarry, from my relationships with clients, to my educational outreach. For your productions, I’ll bring the same care and consideration as I bring to companies such as ABC, NPR, iZotope, sonic scoop, Sonarworks, mastering the mix, and Forbes.

Tools at Our Disposal

Gear is not the most important thing

But it is important.

Familiarity with the gear you have is even more important.

This may not be all the gear we have, but it is all the gear we use on a regular basis.

Gear list

Equalizers

SPL PASSEQ 2

SPL PQ

compressors

Manley Variable Mu

API 2500

IGS Tubecore Mastering Edition

Rupert Neve Designs Masterbuss Processor

Converters

Lynx Aurora 16

Cranesong HEDD 192

ColoRATION / summing

Dangerous 2-buss LT

BAE 1073MP

moNITORING

B&W 802 Series 80 Full Range Monitors

Hypex NC400 Monoblock Amps

Audeze LCD-X Headphones

Sennheiser HD 650 Headphones

soFTWARE

DMG Audio

iZotope

FabFilter

UAD

Slate Digital

Logic Pro X

Pro Tools

Reaper

Wavelab