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Scott Hull on Vinyl, Part Eleven

By James Beaudreau | Published: May 8, 2013

All About Deadwax and the Origins of the Independent Mastering Studio Record Store Day may be past, but the vinyl keeps spinning. Welcome back for a “bonus round” of vinyl trivia! It’s time to talk about “deadwax.” If you look at your records very closely you will see a variety of symbols cut into the [...]

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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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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 Nine

By Scott Hull | Published: April 12, 2013

Scott chats with master cutting engineer, Tony Dawsey. This week I’d like you to hear from one of my master cutting engineers, Tony Dawsey. Tony, like myself, started mastering before there was digital recording of any kind. Well, we’re not that old. But at that time, everything we did was focused on producing the highest [...]

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Scott Hull on Vinyl, Part Eight

By James Beaudreau | Published: April 5, 2013

This week, a behind-the-scenes look at some of the challenges of producing good vinyl reissues, particularly remastered-from-vinyl releases. Hey, where did my master recordings go? Lets look at vinyl from a different angle. Let’s say you made a record in the 70′s or 80′s. You had pretty good success with the record. It might not [...]

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