Ian Sefchick
★ Grammy NominatedIan started his music career fronting Creeper Lagoon, signed to DreamWorks Records, working with producers like Jerry Harrison, Dave Fridmann, and Mark Endert. A self-taught amp builder and electronics enthusiast, he studied engineering at Cincinnati Technical College before joining Capitol Studios in Hollywood in 2009 as a studio technician. There he restored a Neumann VMS66 lathe and launched his mastering career — cutting vinyl, building custom gear, and eventually founding his boutique electronics company Magic Death Eye. Over the years at Capitol he mastered across a wide range of genres, developing a reputation for bringing out the best in both analog and digital recordings. After Capitol closed in 2020, he co-founded Dark Sky Mastering with Margaret Luthar, bringing his analog expertise and obsessive attention to detail to a wider range of artists and genres. He's been nominated for a Grammy for mastering Greg Allman's "Southern Blood" and Black Pumas' "Live at Capitol."
View full discography ↗Margaret Luthar
★ Grammy WinnerMargaret is a Grammy-winning mastering engineer with a background in classical trombone, music industry (Syracuse University), and Music Technology (NYU). She's worked at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Aspen Music Festival, worked on post-grad studies at the University of Stavanger in Norway, where she started her mastering career and took on location recording projects across Europe before returning to the US. She learned to cut vinyl at Chicago Mastering Service, served as head mastering engineer at Welcome to 1979 in Nashville, and is a broadcast engineer for NPR. She currently cuts lacquer masters for vinyl reproduction at The Lathe Room. A deep believer that great mastering starts with great listening, she brings a musician's ear and an engineer's precision to every project. She won a Grammy for mastering Bobby Rush's "Rawer Than Raw." View full discography ↗
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