Michael Romanowski is a Mastering Engineer in San Francisco, California. He started his career as a live sound engineer in Nashville, Tennessee, and quickly went from that to recording, mixing and producing. In 1994, he moved to the Bay area and started his mastering career at Rocket Lab, with Mastering Engineers Paul Stubblebine and Ken Lee. Learning from two of the best in the business was invaluable to him as his career moved forward. Michael helped start the mastering room at Sausalito’s Plant Studios in 1999, where he was the chief mastering engineer. In 2001, Michael reunited with Paul Stubblebine in Paul’s mastering room at Hyde Street Studios – the famed Studio C. In 2003, Michael and Paul built two state of the art 5.1 mastering rooms at the former Coast Recorders building, now known as 1340 Mission, where he continues to work today.

Michael is serving his second term on the Board of Governors for the San Francisco NARAS chapter, and is the Chairman of the chapter’s Producers & Engineers wing. He also teaches mastering at San Francisco State University, and is active at conferences such as TapeOp, VSAC and AES . He is a co-owner of a music label, with Paul Stubblebine and Dan Schmalle, called The Tape Project which only releases direct copies of original analog masters on 1/4” analog tape. And, he continues to record, mix, produce and perform.

Michael Romanowski
1340 Mission Street
San Francisco, Ca. 94103
(510) 882-8555 (cell)
(510) 761-5520 (studio)
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Paul Stubblebine
(415) 522-0108 (studio)
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You need someone you can trust with your most important mastering projects. Michael Romanowski has built a 16 year reputation as the finest in the business.