Sonic Arts

Mastering and lacquer cutting studio in San Francisco, California (USA). It was also known as [l=The Mastering Room, San Francisco].
[b]Please use for the digital authoring, mastering, transfer and duplication company located in London with an office in New York and [l=Sonic Arts Recording] for the Austin, Texas studio.[/b]

Sonic Arts was owned by and located on the same premises as his recording studio . It also acted as a label which released an experimental series called the . The studio was equipped with a Neumann lathe with variable pitch and depth control controlled with digital computer and VG66 cutting amp. Direct-to-disc recordings were also offered.

Cuts can be recognized by a symbol in the runouts that looks like the outline of a dash with protruding curves in the center (like ⊏◯⊐), or a larger dot in the middle of the dash. Usually there will be "SACC" or "SAC" or "SA" etched in the string as well.

Engineers known to have worked here: [a=Leo Kulka], [a=David Kulka], [a=Ken Lee], [a=Bud Osterberg], [a=Jim Economides], David Tonelli.

Also appears on releases as:
- Sonic Arts Corporation
- Sonic Arts Studios
- SAC