Airshow Chief Engineers
Anna Frick Restoring & Digitizing
Boulder Engineers
Takoma Park Mastering Engineers
David Glasser Plangent Processing
Randy LeRoy Mastering
Takoma Park Studio A's 1943 7-foot Steinway B
Takoma Park Staff
Don Godwin Recording & Mixing

Collaborate with Airshow on your project

Bring your vision and musical talents. We’ll add the technical creativity in mastering, mixing or recording: 33 years of dedication to great sounding audio, two top-notch studio locations, five engineers with decades of experience, and a well-chosen assortment of pro audio tools, suitable for any release format or medium.

New Boulder studio is open!

Boulder-bench-0816-for-web Clients have followed the studio’s progress for the past year on our blog and on Facebook, and now it’s time to check it out in person. The new room, just five miles west of Boulder in an inspiring foothills setting, features a Sam Berkow-designed control room (naturally!), Airshow’s customary client amenities with an awesome view to boot. The studio opened in July with a flurry of folk, bluegrass and jazz projects mastered by Dave Glasser and Anna Frick.

Borrow our ears – no charge!

sennheiser_headphones_2-1680x1050 Every project can benefit from a fresh set of ears. Whether your question is about mixing, mastering or the sonic direction of your project, contact us to schedule a listening session in one of our studios. You may attend the session or simply upload files; it’s a great opportunity to make Airshow a part of your production team.

Preserve your valuable recordings

tape boxes In the Restoration Center for Audio Archives, we can turn your boxes of master tapes, DATs or rare discs—even wire recordings—into a future-proofed digitized collection. We’ll create master files, derivatives for online access, and metadata to your specifications. Other services include audio restoration, media repair, noise reduction and consultation. Contact Ann Blonston for details and read about some cool projects we loved working on.

More than mastering: record, shoot and mix with Airshow

PT multitrack In Takoma Park, we offer complete production services – tracking, mixing, video and mastering, soup to nuts. Independent engineers and videographers are welcome. Surround mixing and mastering, for disc or theatrical release, is offered in Boulder and Takoma Park. Contact an Airshow studio manager for details.

It’s an HD audio world

Mastered for iTunes Airshow masters for iTunes, HDTracks and vinyl. All of our engineers are certified to master your recordings for iTunes, delivering 24-bit HD masters to the world’s largest online music retailer—and future-proofing your precious work in the process. Your HD master earns premium prices on HDtracks and in your own online store. Vinyl production starts with a 24-bit master file. Contact an Airshow studio manager or engineer, and read more for details.

I've worked with David Glasser on several albums and keep coming back. His work on "Phineas McBoof Crashes The Symphony" was fabulous. He really got the music and the point of the release - to introduce the orchestra to newcomers and kids - and he was extremely flexible and kind with his workflow and schedule. I would be delighted to work with David again. --Cory Cullinan, Doctor Noize

Doctor Noize - Phineas McBoof Crashes The Symphony

Working with someone as skilled as Randy LeRoy was a god send. He was patient beyond belief and the perfect guide through the journey to bring my project sonically just where I needed it to be. Airshow was not only a great working partner but is also a nurturing home that I will return to in the future. -- Grey Jacks, The Grey A

The comments across the board on these masters are fantastic! Great job out of Airshow Mastering! --Mark Pinkus, Rhino Records

Grateful Dead Complete Studio Albums Collection

I was really pleased with the mastering work Randy LeRoy did on this record. He took the time to sit down with me on the front end for a couple of listening sessions, where we talked through the songs and made notes to make sure we were on the same page. Once we had the vision aligned, Randy worked his magic, and it really enhanced the songs. He's a super-pro and a super nice guy. --Taylor Ferrell

Taylor Ferrell - Jesus Year

The records I produce span many genres, from bluegrass, to Italian pop, to post-modern punk, beyond and back again. Over the past fifteen years David Glasser has mastered a great many of these projects, always with fantastic results. No matter what the sonic landscape, Dave has an unusual ability to bring out the best in each project while always maintaining ultimate respect for the musicality and dynamics of the given body of work. In this increasingly "broad stroke, slap-dash" world, David Glasser remains a true artisan. I trust him completely to work on my projects without my presence but I always prefer to travel to Boulder to be with him if I can because, among other things, I really enjoy his company. --Jono Manson, The Kitchen Sink

We LOVE the way the record is sounding after mastering. --Mike Tallman, Eufórquestra

Eufórquestra - Fire

Dave is absolutely my go-to guy for any and every surround project that I’m fortunate to work with. Dave has the ears, the equipment, the environment, and the temperament that I look for in a mastering engineer. I have asked for his involvement in several projects including the Grateful Dead Movie and Sunshine Daydream, and I am always happy with results. They sound great, and I know the technical side has been taken care of. Plus, he’s a good guy as well! --Jeffrey Norman, Mockingbird Mastering

Grateful Dead - Various

Randy Leroy is a pro and the work he did on our project was as valuable as that of any of the band members. If you’re releasing an independent record, it isn’t finished until it’s mastered and no one does it better than Airshow. --Jamon Scott, The Toluenes

The Toluenes - Quatro Hello

The mastering really added that last bit of sparkle and glue to the whole thing. It's like I'm hearing parts in the tracks I've never heard before...and I played everything on the record! Thanks for your audio wizardry! --Packy Lundholm

Packy Lundholm - Now Is the Time

Working with an artist like John Cowan automatically carries a heavy level of responsibility, given the incredible level of quality that he brings to the project - there is not a finer singer on the planet, in my opinion. In my role as producer, I exerted my best efforts at every stage - song choices, arrangements, players that suited the material, and of course the recording process overall. When it came time for mastering, I feel that it was good fortune indeed to get Randy LeRoy involved. He has proven to be such a great match for the music in terms of his sensibilities sonically and he is such a pleasure to work with - and we have a lot of range stylistically on this project, so I would say for any mastering engineer that this would be a real challenge. Randy really did a great job, and again, such a good guy and easy to communicate and work with. --John McFee, producer, John Cowan "Sixty"

John Cowan "Sixty"

Airshow Mastering is ace. David Glasser[‘s] connection to The Dead was huge ‘cause we were covering “Deep Elem Blues” that I know and love from The Grateful Dead version. I said I wanted it warm and sounding like an old blues record with a little more bump in the bass... and he did just that. Mellow, cool guy, humble, and totally took the time to get it how we wanted it to sound. --Eric Halborg, Dragondeer

Dragondeer - Don't That Feel Good

We've been using Randy LeRoy for mastering our mixes for years, including all genres of music. He is always a part of the project... A true professional with top notch quality that Audio Dallas and our clients can always depend on with a great set of ears. We look forward to having Airshow Mastering and Randy master projects for us for years to come. -- Paul Osborn, Audio Dallas Recording

It’s hard to be objective about Dave Glasser’s work because we’ve become friends over the last several years. On the other hand, we wouldn’t have become friends if I hadn’t come to him for mastering work a number of times. I was an admirer of his mastering talent before we ever met – his work on archival Grateful Dead projects and countless other releases by my favorites artists is unparalleled in its musicality. --David Gans: musician, author, broadcaster

David Gans - It's A Hand Me Down