Category Archives: vinyl

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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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 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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