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