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High Fidelity Mastering

After attending the first Mastering School at South Padre Island, Andy Rogulich has started his own Mastering business in Albuquerque, New Mexico called High Fidelity Mastering

“I started High Fidelity Mastering with the desire to combine my love of music, my electrical engineering background, and my audiophile passion for having the finest playback capability for Stereo and Surround Sound. I wanted to have a Mastering facility where I could restore noisy recordings, have the ability to create 5.1 Surround Sound from 2-channel sources, create a 5.1 effect for headphones, and create any effect for music, film, or television. All of these capabilities had to be accomplished on whatever media the original source material was on, be it record, reel-to-reel, 8-track, cassette, video tape, video disc, DVD, or CD. I saw a real need to be able to provide the capability to restore recordings on a source that the clients could no longer playback themselves, but wanted to hear those old, priceless recordings once again. In the last couple of years, New Mexico has also made a big push to get the film industry to make movies and TV shows here, so it made sense to include the ability to master in reverb effects for the television and film industry. At first I researched to see if there was such a facility already here in Albuquerque. What I found out was that there was no such facility in the city, the state, and few other places in the country as well. The result, I have assembled state-of-the-art digital and analog equipment as well as a collection of vintage analog equipment to get that just right sound. What my business provides is described in its name. High Fidelity Mastering is the high-quality reproduction of sound that improves the original recording. My goal with every project is to create the finest possible sound from the original recording. And it was all made possible by the gentle tutelage of Billy Stull, and the ability to purchase the finest mastering equipment at a discount through the Masterpiece Mastering School.”

You can contact Andy at 505-459-6242, email him at
andy@highfidelitymastering.com or visit his web site at
www.highfidelitymastering.com