For the past three decades, Vlado Meller has mastered albums for acts like Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Duran Duran, Metallica, Beyoncé and Kanye West. In 2007, the Sony Music veteran joined Universal Music Group as senior mastering engineer at Universal Mastering Studios-East in New York, as part of an effort by the major to open up a new revenue stream by serving outside clients.
Meller oversees all of the studios' projects in New York and will help coordinate operations at a new facility that will open at Hanna-Barbera Studios in Hollywood in early 2010. In an interview, he discusses his craft and the state of the mastering business.
After Sony Music closed its studio in New York, why did you decide to join Universal?
All my life I worked for the big labels. So it was my first choice to come to Universal, because this is the biggest label. They had mastering already and I came to visit the facility. I fell in love with the room. It's a first-class, first-rate studio.
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