Masterdisk reported activity across a number of genres recently. Projects at the West Side mastering house include:
Earl MacDonald‘s album Re:Visions – Works for Jazz Orchestra, mastered at Masterdisk by Randy Merrill. The record has been nominated for the “Traditional Jazz Album of the Year” Juno Award.
Also mastered by Read more...
Ringwood, NJ-based Rain Computers has announced the launch of Rain Music Group (RMG), which will serve as a combination record label, artist incubator, recording studio and R&D lab.
Signings to the label so far include former Saturday Night Live band alum, G.E. Smith, South African folk artist Syd Kitchen, and Read more...
Solid State Logic (SSL) has announced the release of Duende Native. According to SSL, these plug-ins are functionally and sonically identical to the now discontinued DSP-powered Duende plug-ins, running natively using the host computer’s processing resources.
Duende plug-ins provide the feature set and tonal characteristics of SSL console products in Read more...
LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS: Scratch below the surface of any of today’s independent masring engineers, and most likely you’ll find a team player there. There are a lot of one-person shops dotting the NYC landscape, but these individual practitioners weren’t always flying solo.
Case in point: James Cruz, founder and Read more...
JLM Sound, the DUMBO mastering facility founded by Joe Lambert, continues to expand. This week, Lambert announced that he has promoted Roman Vail to the post of Staff Engineer.
“When I opened JLMSound in 2008 I asked Roman to join me — he was my studio manager the last three Read more...
