Battery Studios

Holiday Greetings from Battery Studios!

Congratulations to Mark Wilder on his 4th Grammy Win: Best Historical Album - Bill Withers: The Complete Sussex & Columbia Albums!

Congratulations to the following Grammy Nominees. All albums mastered by Mark Wilder at Battery Studios!

Bill Withers, Gregory Porter, Wayne Shorter, Cecile McLoran Salvant, The New Gary Burton Quartet, and the Christian McBride Trio!

Maria Triana - http://www.batterystudios.com/engineers/maria-triana.shtml

Maria’s inclination towards music began early. At the age of 5, she started playing violin and by 15, she had already joined the music program of one of the most prestigious universities of Bogota, Colombia. She moved to Boston and graduated from Berklee College Of Music with a dual degree in Performance and Music Production & Engineering. After graduation, she re-located to New York City and started working at Sony Music Studios. As an Assistant Engineer in the mastering department, she had the opportunity to assist, follow and hone her skills by working along some of the best engineers in the business.

Now a Mastering Engineer at Battery Studios, Maria continues to work along side Senior Mastering Engineers Mark Wilder and Vic Anesini. She is equally versed in the analog and digital domains and brings a unique musical sensibility to her work, coupled with a keen ear for detail. Some of her current and past credits include:

Releases and reissues by Bob Dylan
Weather Report
Miles Davis
Barry Manilow
André Previn
Harry Belafonte
Aretha Franklin

Vic Anesini - http://www.batterystudios.com/engineers/vic-anesini.shtml

Vic joined Sony during the exponential growth of the compact disc. This gave him the opportunity to apply his talent to the reissue of hundreds of catalogue albums and newer box sets; a truly invaluable experience that has made Vic one of the premier catalogue mastering engineers in the world. This recognition has led to him mastering many current artists and vastly broadened his expertise. Vic's current single/album mastering credits include:

Pink
Kristen Chenoweth
Michael Jackson
Q-Tip
Jeff Buckley
The Derek Trucks Band

Vic has mastered numerous Grammy Winning/Nominated artists. In 2006, he was nominated in the Best Historical Category for mastering the Johnny Cash box set “The Legend”. Vic has served as member of the Board of Governors for the New York Chapter of the Recording Academy® (NARAS).

Matt Cavaluzzo - http://www.batterystudios.com/engineers/matt-cavaluzzo.shtml

Matt Cavaluzzo is a senior engineer at Battery Studios and has worked for Sony Music Entertainment since 1990. He was instrumental in establishing the company’s digital archive program, the first of its kind in the music industry, and has held the position of Archival Audio Engineer since the program’s inception in 1994. Matt’s transfers for the program and subsequent use in projects has earned him five Grammy nominations:

Soundtrack for a Century
Lady Day The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia
Charlie Christian: Genius Of The Electric Guitar
The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Woody Herman and his Orchestra
The Lester Young/Count Basie Sessions 1936-1940
..And one Grammy win:

Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia

Matt is experienced in techniques for transferring and preservation of a wide range of audio media from early disc/metal master recordings on through the analog and digital tape eras to present day digital audio. Matt’s studio encompasses a vast array of equipment including Studer 820 ¼”analog tape deck (mono, stereo, and quarter track capable), Studer 820 ½” analog tape deck, Studer 807 ½” 3 track deck, Studer 807 ½” 4 track deck, Studer 827 1” 8 track deck, Studer 827 2” 16/24 track deck, Sound Stream digital tape system, Mitsubishi and Sony dash decks, Rockport Technologies turntable, BE broadcast turntable modified for playing metal disc masters (both positives and negatives), Sequoia DAW, Pro-Tools DAW.

Mark Wilder - http://www.batterystudios.com/engineers/mark-wilder.shtml

A career spanning more than thirty years, Mark started his journey at Vanguard Records as a staff engineer. Although some of the sessions during this period were done in early, cutting edge digital platforms, much of his work at Vanguard was in the analog domain, whether it was recording, mixing or editing. Working with a wide assortment of artists, engineers and producers, afforded Mark a deep foundation in recording as well as mixing.

At the dawn of the Compact Disc era, Mark moved to Polygram Records, a co-developer of this new technology. The growth of the music industry, due to this innovation, required Mark to develop a very different skill set than what he had acquired at Vanguard. Since there were no recording studios at Polygram, Mark began to hone his skills in digital editing and mastering, tape restoration and transfers.

With a tip from a friend, Mark applied for his dream job at Columbia Recording Studios. Since accepting the position, Mark has spent the last 24 years as a Senior Engineer at Sony Music. At times a “jack of all trades”, splitting his time between the studio and mastering, Mark turned his attention strictly toward mastering in the mid 90’s. This focus helped garner him 7 nominations and 3 Grammy’s as well as a Spanish Oscar for his work on “Calle 54”. Not only can his work be found on Compact Discs, but Mark has also mastered music for DVD, Broadcast and Cinema.

Some of his most recent projects include:

Bob Dylan
Herbie Hancock
Manhattan Transfer
Miles Davis
Aretha Franklin
Phish
Pat Metheny
Sting