Less processing. More music.
Grammy-winning mastering from a custom analog studio on Hollywood Boulevard. Built on the tradition of The Mastering Lab, where the philosophy has always been simple: do less. Let the music breathe.
ScrollA tradition built on listening first.
Jett's approach to mastering traces directly back to The Mastering Lab, the country's first independent mastering studio, founded in 1967 by Doug Sax. The Lab mastered records for The Doors, Pink Floyd, and Ray Charles, among hundreds of others. Its core principle was simple: do less. Let the music breathe. Reach for restraint before you reach for a compressor.
"It's the dance of listening to and appreciating the music for what it is, and making sure that you honor the fidelity of the music when you're mastering." — Jett Galindo, PLAYBACK Magazine
Jett apprenticed at The Mastering Lab, learning not only the technical craft but also the art of vinyl cutting as the format was finding new life. She carried that philosophy forward, first at The Bakery on the Sony Pictures lot, where she spent nearly a decade mastering and cutting vinyl for artists from Green Day to Billie Eilish, and now at her own studio, which she opened in 2024.
Just you and the speakers.
The room on Hollywood Boulevard follows the same principle that defined The Mastering Lab: nothing between the engineer and the monitors. No console desk, no reflective surfaces interfering with the sound. The result is a listening environment that gets out of the way and lets the music speak.
The mastering chain lives in a custom modular console built by Josh Florian, founder of JCF Audio and former tech of The Mastering Lab, positioned behind the listening chair. The signal path includes The Mastering Lab's renowned solid-state and transformerless tube line amplifiers, a custom JCF VCA/FET/Opto dynamics processor, and the same optical limiter used at the original studio. Everything is monitored through ATC SCM100 speakers, chosen for their continuity with the SCM150s Jett relied on for years.
From Manila to Hollywood Boulevard
Jett grew up in the Philippines in a household where music wasn't something you pursued. It was just there. Her parents train and manage cover bands, so the house was always full of musicians rehearsing. She bonded with her sisters over pop records, concert videos, and MTV marathons. None of it ever felt extraordinary. It was simply what home sounded like.
She was always drawn to technology, too. She learned to build computers from her dad and taught herself programming, video editing, and graphic design. Those two worlds, music and tech, finally collided when she joined a choral group at Ateneo de Manila University that toured across Asia, Europe, and the United States. During a US tour, a fellow choir member and Berklee graduate introduced her to audio engineering. From that moment, everything locked into place.
She started bringing a portable recording rig on tour, eventually landed an apprenticeship at the university's recording studio, and set her sights on Berklee. She graduated summa cum laude from Berklee College of Music in 2012, with a major in Music Production and Engineering and a minor in Acoustics and Electronics. On campus, she became the go-to person for live classical recordings, capturing performances at concert halls across Berklee, Harvard, and MIT, and landed an internship at Avatar Recording Studios (now the Power Station) in New York City.
It was at Berklee that Jett first understood mastering as its own discipline, guided by her mentor Jonathan Wyner, former president of the Audio Engineering Society and a thought leader in emerging music technology. His mentorship prepared her for what came next.
A move from New York to Southern California brought Jett to The Mastering Lab, and to Doug Sax, whose "less is more" philosophy would define the rest of her career.
At The Mastering Lab, Jett found her craft and her calling. She went on to spend nearly a decade at The Bakery, a mastering house on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, mastering and cutting vinyl for projects ranging from Green Day's Revolution Radio to the La La Land soundtrack to Billie Eilish's Hit Me Hard and Soft. Over the years, she mastered albums that went on to earn Grammy and Latin Grammy wins. In 2024, she opened her own studio on Hollywood Boulevard, carrying The Mastering Lab's philosophy forward in a room built entirely around her vision. In its very first year, albums she mastered earned Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations.
What started in a house full of rehearsing musicians led, eventually, to a quiet room on Hollywood Boulevard built for one purpose: to honor and celebrate the music.
Grammy-winning engineer. Educator. Community builder.
The work doesn't stop at the studio door. Jett serves as Secretary of the Recording Academy's LA Chapter Board, teaches at Berklee College of Music, and formerly sat on the P&E Wing Advisory Council. Through Women in Vinyl and SoundGirls, she advocates for education, representation, and access for women and LGBTQ+ professionals in audio. She also founded Muni Sound, an immersive recording service capturing choral, classical, and folk music in the spaces where it was meant to be heard. Every role points in the same direction: making room.
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