Listening to music from the legendary catalogs of Decca, Atlantic, Stax, Sun, Parlophone, etc, it’s often hard to believe that several of those immortal recordings were made in a single session.
How could any of those revered recordings have been made in one day?
Simple… They had a killer studio, great gear, an extremely talented crew, and, most importantly, great artists. They were the masters from their day.
In homage to these craftspeople, Benchmark has created a web series, ‘Masters From Their Day‘.
Each episode will document a cooperative team of highly-skilled ‘collaborators’ (artists, engineers, studios, etc) gathered for one day to execute a studio recording.
The resultant mastered recordings from each day in the studio (the ‘Masters From Their Day’, as it were) are featured at the end of each episode and are available for you to download as uncompressed audio files.
The first episode was produced on March 1, 2010, at Kaufman Astoria Studios.
The featured band was Rubblebucket, and the featured engineers were Joe Castellon and Alex Lipsen.
All of the mixed tracks from this series will be mastered by three-time Grammy-award winning mastering engineer Gavin Lurssen.
The series is available on the “Masters From Their Day” website, and the mastered track from each session will be available as a free download.
Mastered Track For Download: “Came out of a Lady”
CD Quality (44.1-kHz, 16-bit)
High Resolution (88.2-kHz, 24-bit)
