I'm going to try to master an album I just finished and was
curious about the signal chain. The music is not, but sounds
a lot like Tom Petty with the drums etc... Be that as it may,
I've recording to tape then dropped it in digitally through
Apogee to do some edits.

I have an Apogeepsx100se that I'm listening through and
have the following outboard gear. Manley Elop, Vari-Mu,
Massive Passive, API 550A's, LA-2A 's, Ampex 440 2 track,
and a few other miscellaneous. I'm running the outputs of
the Apogeeinto my trident 80 board and then from there
into my monitors.

I'm just trying to find a starting point for hooking up a nice
chain for mastering. For instance, eq before compression (if
needed) or compression before eq, and also out of the apogee
first, then into the outboard gear, but bypass the console
completely and go straight into the speakers. Stuff like that.
Any help or insight would be great. Thanks.

Mark