Tag Archives: jazz

Ask the Engineer: Randy Merrill on Managing the Bass In Your Jazz Mixes

By James Beaudreau | Published: August 14, 2012

Ask the Engineer is a new series here on the Masterdisk blog where our guys answer questions about music production. Send us your questions at ask@masterdisk.com. We won’t be able to answer all of them but we will definitely get to some of them. If you have a specific engineer you want to pose the [...]

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This Month in Masterdisk History: September (Part 1)

By James Beaudreau | Published: September 14, 2010

These little updates feature records from the past — some near, some far — that were mastered here at Masterdisk. Consider it a very random reminder of some records you might have forgotten about. Or, if you’re in a more heavy mindset, be amazed at how time flies!

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The Making of Ike Sturm’s Jazz Mass: Interviews with Ike Sturm and Randy Merrill

By James Beaudreau | Published: August 16, 2010

Ike Sturm is a bassist, composer and the Music Director for the Jazz Ministry at Saint Peter’s Church (the “Jazz Church”) here in Manhattan. His remarkable Jazz Mass, a work for voices, strings and jazz ensemble, was commissioned by St. Peter’s, recorded in 2007-08 at Avatar Studios and mastered by Randy Merrill at Masterdisk. For this post, The Masterdisk Record interviewed both Ike and Randy about the making of the album.

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