The new record by legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar, Nine Decades: Volume 1 (1967 – 1968), features a never-before-released performance and is the first record out on the artist’s new label East Meets West Records.
Joe LaPorta mastered the recording at The Lodge in NYC.
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ASTOR PLACE, MANHATTAN: A man capable of making 6,178 stutter edits in one song, it’s easy to see how a micromanager like BT might somehow miss the big picture. But really, it makes much more sense that BT is quickly evolving methods of mastering just as he slowly, surely is Read more...
BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN: New York City still has its temples of mastering – Sterling Sound and Masterdisk among them. But one that’s gone and is still missed is Sony: The spirited mastering complex there hosted a dozen or so of the world’s top mastering engineers there at its peak.
Today, Read more...
Trutone Mastering Labs (Orangeburg, NY) Chief Engineer Carl Rowatti and Teri Landi, Chief Engineer at ABKCO Records recently collaborated on the vinyl mastering of the three-record Rolling Stones 40th anniversary boxed commorative album Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!. The record was released in early November.
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DUMBO, BROOKLYN: One of the most transcendent albums of 2008 was Alpinisms by Brooklyn’s School of Seven Bells. If you haven’t heard it yet – and you enjoy having your mind blown again and again and again and again by extremely original music – you might want to check it Read more...
