The Masters

Audio mastering house. Previously called the Holland Cutting, the name was changed in 1988. It was located in Soest until 2007, then moved to a location in Bontebok (both in The Netherlands). The company was registered as from 1988-01-01 and was dissolved as of 2012-12-31 - Do not use this company for items released after that date When entering the company number to the cat# field only enter the numbers, not the engineers initials. Example: HCB873041. 873041 can be entered in the cat# field, HCB (Maarten De Boer) is the credit for the mastering engineer. The full string should be entered in the "Matrix/Runout" field. Known engineers and their runout etchings (please, do not enter HC which is not part of respective ANVs): HCB -> Maarten De Boer + ANV B HCP -> Patrick Richter + ANV P HCT -> Tim de Wolf + ANV T The etchings in the runout start with HCX (X=B, P or T) followed by six numbers which usually start with 87 Examples: HCB 871432 (1989) HCB 874235 (1994) HCB 876664 (2002) The numbers are always hand-etched. With each new cut the number in the runout increases with one as well. There are a few records which only have the initials of the cutting engineer without a number.