Category Archives: Record Store Day

BBiB Record Store Day Listening Party Recap

By James Beaudreau | Published: April 22, 2013

Hope you all had a great Record Store Day this year! We closed our favorite holiday out in style, with a listening party for about 30 new friends here at Masterdisk. The party was one of a continuing series of listening parties organized by Mike Newman of the East Village Radio show and just-launched record [...]

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RSD 2013 Vinyl Cut at Masterdisk

By James Beaudreau | Published: April 20, 2013

It’s Record Store Day! Hopefully you’ll find the list below “better late than never”. These are the RSD titles that were cut at Masterdisk. As you’ll see, some of them were mastered at the excellent Airshow, Kitchen and Welcome to 1979 studios, and sent to us for cutting. We often partner with other mastering studios [...]

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Scott Hull on Vinyl, Part Ten

By James Beaudreau | Published: April 15, 2013

How many grooves are there on a typical record? The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) set all the parameters for the dimensions of the modern vinyl record. The parameters needed to be made consistent so that player functions would all work. So, as a mastering engineer, I need to know that the final locked [...]

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Scott Hull on Vinyl, Part Six

By Scott Hull | Published: March 22, 2013

Could your turntable could be performing better? If you’ve been following along this blog since week one, you now have a pretty good picture of how music gets recorded onto vinyl. This seems like a good time to talk about record players and especially phono cartridges. I won’t even try to tell you what turntable [...]

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Scott Hull on Vinyl, Part Five

By Scott Hull | Published: March 15, 2013

What is the RIAA curve? The Recording Industry Association of America developed a standard playback equalization curve and required that all LP records and record players manufactured conform to this standard. You have probably noticed that you cannot take the audio plugs from your turntable and plug them into an ordinary line input connection on [...]

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