Tony Mantz

Tony "Jack the Bear" Mantz is the owner and founder of Jack the Bear's Deluxe Mastering (in Discogs Deluxe Mastering). He has also founded in 1995 his own company Jack The Bear Productions Pty. Ltd.. Mastering has taken up the majority of his career since starting work in the music business in 1981. He's had a stint at recording and mixing, and a concurrent career in radio on Toronto's CFNY as an announcer, as well as Melbourne's Triple M, but found mastering as his calling. Tony's travelled extensively around the world, meeting and learning from some of the best in the business, and was trained in the art of vinyl mastering by Rick Essig at Frankford/Wayne Mastering Labs, NYC. This was the same studio that that produced the likes of Tom Coyne and Herb Powers Jr.. Tony (Jack to most people) started freelance mastering work in 1990. In 1999 shop was set up at Melbourne's Sing Sing Studios, he made the break in early 2006 to build his own facility. He cut records for Corduroy Records (2) which can be identified by his signature paw print in the matrix. See here for an example: North Side Perspective.