YOU CAN SAY vinyl is back; you can say vinyl never left. What's certain is that record collectors and bands alike continue to have an undying, perhaps unconditional love for the format. Having one's ...

Says Ron McMaster, who retires on July 12, of making records: "The fact that it’s still strong blows my mind." There’s a theory dubbed “nominative determinism,” a fancy name to describe people who ...

The scariest day of Pete Lyman’s life was the morning the movers came for his 1978 Scully LS-76 vinyl-cutting lathe. It’s one of two rare machines at Lyman’s company, Infrasonic Sound, which cut the ...

“It’s that perfect combination: Great artist. Great music. Great production. Great mixing. Great mastering. Voilà!” says award-winning mastering engineer Emily Lazar, whose work is often the last step ...

Demand for vinyl albums is growing, and the pressure on manufacturers to keep up is growing with it. Engineers with the tools and experience necessary to put music on wax are increasingly harder to ...

Mastering is the process of controlling and changing frequencies and dynamics in order to make your music really pop. Rosie Beaton chats to mastering engineer Andrew Edgson to uncover how you can get ...

To appreciate the booming popularity of vinyl records, you can look at sales charts showing massive annual sales growth for the past 10 years. Or you could peek inside the Welcome to 1979 facility in ...