| Staff | Discography |
Choice Mastering employes Merging Technologies's Pyramix as its 32-bit floating point mastering/editing workstation. Pyramix's high resolution, universal file format support, and supurb sonic integrity put it in its own league of digital audio workstations.
Lucid's 24 bit 96 kHz converters are a perfect match with our analog tube gear from SPL and DBX for excellent mastering processing.
Along with using the latest high resolution digital equipment, the Otari MTR-12 1/4" analog mastering tape machine still gets plenty of use. You can't beat an analog tape machine to get that "analog tape" sound.
His recording/music career began when he applied for an intership at Philadelphia's legendary
Sonic Recording Studio. Even though he was the youngest intern on staff, Sonic's management was
impressed with his attitude and abilities and made him an assistant engineer.
Joe recorded everyone, everything, and anywhere, but knew formal training would give him a technical edge. He then went on to study music theory and the art of audio engineering at William Paterson University. At W.P.U.
Joe found mastering to be the most intriguing and captivating aspect of the recording process.
After playing guitar on two albums and an east coast tour with his band of 3 years,
recording and mastering evolved into his foremost priority. Joe left his band to become a
production assistant at Masterdisk in New York City.
After Masterdisk Joe joined the production staff at Sony Music Studios in 2001. As part of the production team, Joe maintained the highest standards in quality control for some of the year's biggest releases. Working on albums
from Rosemary Clooney to Good Charlotte and everyone in between, Joe developed his ear for sonic detail and uncompromised standards.
Choice Mastering began in the winter of 1999 editing and EQ'ing
an album for his band. Since then, Choice Mastering has continued to grow and expand, serving independent artists nationwide. Joe's musical background and years of commercial studio experience give him the edge to approach projects with the knowledge and creativity to surpass his clients' expectations.
Harry's electronics career started as a young boy, tearing into the
family's radios, record players, and TV's to find out how the darn
things worked. In later years nothing was more thrilling than to find an old TV or radio in the trash (preferably with vacuum tubes). Harry went to vocational high school for electronics (at the same
school as Joe, but about a decade earlier). After spending some time building custom vacuum tube guitar amps, Harry eventually earned a BSEET degree from NJIT.
Harry currently teaches electronics at his local community college and
maintains the electronics labs there. Harry joined Choice Mastering to
custom design Joe's leviton meter bridge in the summer of 2001. He
remains on call at Choice Mastering to help with any hardware problems
and build equipment as needed.
| Artist/Link | Genre |
|---|---|
| The Cryptkeeper Five - "Pomade, Switchblades, ..." | Rock N Roll/Punk |
| The Cryptkeeper Five - "And Their God Damn Rock N Roll" | Rock N Roll/Punk |
| The Cryptkeeper Five - "Trenton Makes" | Rock N Roll/Punk |
| Skully Records | Label |
| Bongo Jones - "Live At The Budapest" | Rock/Funk |
| Sharky's Machine - "Drunks Like Us" | Punk |
| D.T. Graves - "It's A Charmed Life" | Country/Rock |
| Guy Incognito - "Dues Paid" | Hip-Hop |
| Guy Incognito - "Adapt, Change, Evolve" | Hip-Hop |
| Guy Incognito - "Wat Tyler" | Hip-Hop |
| Guy Incognito - "New Consciousness" | Hip-Hop |
| The Link - "Live Volume 1" | Rock Fusion |
| William Paterson University - "Volume 1" | Rock Complilation |
| Floren Sergio - "Break It Down" | Acoustic Rock |
| Groove Pocket | Rock |
| Anibal - "The First From Anibal" | Rock |
| Beth Ann Coleman | Female Opera Soloist |
| Ethan Herr | Jazz |
| Echoface - "Echoface" | Rock |
| Blue Method - "What If" | Funk/Rock |
| The Plutonics | Vocalist/Acoustic |
| Tangled - "Blurred Vision" | Metal |
| Vicious Circle - "Vicious Circle" | Metal |
| Skyline - "Between The Road And The Stars" | Punk |
| Double Breasted - "Angst For The Mammaries" | Folk Rock |
| Tom Spiker Band - "Tom Spiker" | Rock |
| Whogasta - "Whogasta" | Funk/Rock |
| Rhythm Plant - "Concrete Meadows" | Roots Rock |
| Starecase Records - "This Way To Rocket City" Featuring...Kissing Chaos, The Casket Lottery, Pilot to Gunner, Rydell, & Attention |
Rock Compilation |
| The Tom Cruise Missle - "Silk Purse" | Indie Rock |
| The Vag - "The Vag" | Punk Rock |
| Zombie Stomp Records | Label |
| Craet - "Thanks For The Rose" | Indie Rock |
| Subito -"Subito" | Rock |
| Artist/Album | Label |
|---|---|
| Bic Runga - "Beautiful Collision" | Columbia |
| Pearl Jam - "I Am Mine" | Epic |
| Ben Folds - "Ben Folds Live" | Epic |
| Various Artists - "Ozzfest 2002" | Columbia |
| Ozzy Osbourne - "Live At Budokan" | Epic |
| Ozzy Osbourne - "The Osbourne Family Album" | Epic |
| Ozzy Osbourne - "No Rest For The Wicked" 2002 | Epic |
| Ozzy Osbourne - "Bark At The Moon" 2002 | Epic |
| Good Charlotte - "Young And Hopeless" | Epic |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan - "The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan" | Epic |
| Seether - "Disclaimer (Explicit)" | Wind Up |
| Rosemary Clooney - "Best Performances and Greatest Hits" | Legacy |
| Stretch Princess - "Fun With Humans" | Wind-Up |
| Wynton Marsalis - "Trumpet Concertos" | Sony Classical |
| Darrell Evans - "Trading My Sorrows" | Epic |
| Boy Sets Fire - "Love For Today" | Wind Up |
| Nas - "The Lost Tapes" | Columbia |
| Nas - "Illmatic To Stillmatic" | Columbia |
| A Walk To Remember - "Soundtrack" | Epic |
| Aselin Debison - "Sweet Is The Melody" | Sony Classical |
| The Mormon Tabernacle Choir - "Joy To The World" | Sony Classical |
| David Bowie - "Heathen" | Columbia |
| James Taylor - "October Road" | Columbia |
| Peter Yorn - "Musicforthemorningafter" | Columbia |
| John Mayer - "Inside Wants Out" | Columbia |
| Korn - "Untouchables" | Epic |