About the Project
Listening to music from the legendary catalogs of Decca, Atlantic, Stax, Sun, Parlophone, etc, it's hard to believe that several of those immortal recordings were made in a single session. How could any of those revered recordings have been made in one day? Simple... They had a killer studio, great gear, an extremely talented crew, and, most importantly, great artists. They were the masters from their day.
In homage to these craftspeople, Benchmark has created this web series, 'Masters From Their Day'. Each episode will document a cooperative team of highly-skilled 'collaborators' (artists, engineers, studios, etc) gathered for one day to execute a studio recording. The resultant mastered recordings from each day in the studio (the 'Masters From Their Day', as it were) are featured at the end of each episode and are available for you to download as uncompressed audio files.
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MFTD#3 ('Masters From Their Day' webisode #3) is the second of back-to-back sessions we recorded at Pie Studios in Glen Cove, NY. As I mentioned in the blog-post for MFTD#2, the owner of Pie Studios, Perry Margouleff, loved the idea of this web-series and suggested making two webisodes there. Read more...