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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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MASTERING AN INDIE PROJECT: The Diary of an Obsessive Artist, Part II

By James Beaudreau | Published: June 9, 2010
Part 2 of Kirsten Thien's article about the mastering process from an independent artist's perspective. In this installment Kirsten discusses preparing her mixes for the mastering process, and describes her mastering session with Scott Hull.
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Masterdisk: Over 35 Years of Vinyl Mastering

By James Beaudreau | Published: May 28, 2010
Scott Hull of Masterdisk discusses aesthetic and technical matters relating to cutting vinyl. Masterdisk is one of only a few companies worldwide that has been continuously making masters for vinyl, with more experience cutting masters than nearly any other facility.
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Randy Merrill & Masterdisk in the New York Times

By James Beaudreau | Published: May 10, 2010
Randy Merrill was quoted in an article that ran on Sunday, May 9 in the New York Times by Joseph Plambeck called "In Mobile Age, Sound Quality Steps Back".
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Randy Merrill’s Mastering of Darcy James Argue’s “Infernal Machines”

By James Beaudreau | Published: April 20, 2010
Randy was very chill but very focused, a combination I appreciate. I am sure he sensed how much blood and toil had gone into every stage of this record, how hard we'd worked to get to this point, and how much we were counting on him to bring us over the finish line. Despite the marathon 14-hour overnight mastering session, I never once got the sense that Randy was operating on autopilot, or took any shortcuts in order to try to wrap things up.
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