Mystery Room Mastering

12/19/2025

Here's a great new album from Johannes Wallmann that's out now via Shifting Paradigm Records.

Recorded & Mixed by David Stoller
Mastered Here at Mystery Room Mastering

10 track album

12/15/2025

Somewhere under there is my mastering desk, but here's a sampling of some of the vinyl (and one CD) that has arrived in the last 6 months (since the last time I posted a photo like this) of projects that were mastered or remastered here at Mystery Room Mastering.

Thank you to everybody who has kept me busy this year with great projects, and for sending a physical copy when possible.

As a reminder to music fans, streaming pays essentially nothing for most bands and artists so the best way to support them so they can make more music is to actually purchase it like the old days.

12/12/2025

Here's a great new EP from Vacant Church.

Produced by Donald Curtis
Mixed by Thomas Wincek
Mastered Here at Mystery Room Mastering

5 track album

12/09/2025

Honored to have mastered a great number of releases on this list from Milwaukee Record including Collections of Colonies of Bees, The Hallelujah Ward, Ladybird, LUXI, Diet Lite, Brett Newski & The Bad Inventions, Poison Hand, Breakup Tour, Mari Mari, Whitty Remarks, Alicia Rytlewski, Johanna Rose, and Middle Child Syndrome.

It was another one of those years: a year absolutely LOADED with great Milwaukee music.

12/05/2025

It was a lot of fun to master “It’s A Wicked Cool Christmas!”, the coolest Christmas Compilation in the World out today from Wicked Cool Records and the folks at Stevie Van Zandt's Underground Garage.

Available on your streaming service of choice.

Album · 2025 · 11 Songs

12/04/2025

Final mixes done, mastering approved!
“The Bridges That We Burn”
The new UltraBomb album. Available spring of 2026, on DC-Jam Records.
Look for a single to drop before year’s end.
Produced, and engineered by John Fields.
Recorded at Creation Audio, in Minneapolis MN.
Mastered by Justin Perkins, at Mystery Room Mastering, Madison WI.
11 fresh cuts! 10 originals, and a cover of a Minnesota punk classic!

12/01/2025

Honored to have mastered a number of releases on this list from Milwaukee Record including:

Newski, Diet Lite, Dryhouse Ruins, Phase Machines, Guerrilla Ghost, They Want Blood, Tyler Chicorel, and Collections of Colonies of Bees.

This month in Milwaukee music: Diet Lite, Wave Chapelle, Tyler Chicorel, Queen Quail, more.

11/29/2025

Here's a little write-up on the Wicked Cool Christmas compilation that was mastered here at Mystery Room Mastering.

It comes out on streaming December 5th but "Christmas With Me" by Jessie Wagner featuring Rocco of the Snow is out now.

Jessie Wagner ushers in the holiday season with “Christmas With Me,” a bright, feel-good single that channels the charm of

11/25/2025

The latest episode of Working Class Audio features an in-depth conversation with Donald Setaro about putting together the new deluxe version of Gary Young's 'Hospital' album that was remastered/mastered here at Mystery Room Mastering.

As of now, this new version is only available on Bandcamp and CD as 'Hospital For The Chemically Insane'. Link in comments.

I joined in later in the episode to offer my two cents about the remastering and mastering process, and earlier in the episode Dan Johnson from Audio Archiving Services provides some info about transferring all the audio tape sources for this project.

You can find the audio version on your podcast app of choice, or watch the YouTube version here:

In this episode of Working Class Audio, Matt welcomes back producer/engineer/mixer and record label owner Don Setaro. Matt and Don get into a deep dive discu...

11/22/2025

Universal Music Group just announced a "Vinylphyle" version of Erykah Badu's 'Mama's Gun' for its 25th anniversary.

It was fully remastered here for the first time since the original release from the original mix tapes and meticulously reassembled with the help of Elon Wertman from UMe.

Lacquers for vinyl were cut by Joe Nino-Hernes at Sterling Sound in Nashville and pressed at RTI.

The original artwork with embossed lettering is now in a tip-on jacket and heavyweight vinyl, and includes a new essay by Erykah Badu herself.

You can pre-order and read more about it here:

Erykah Badu's Mama's Gun is presented in a new audiophile format worthy of the album's accolades. This Vinylphyle edition is remastered for the very first time since the original CD release from the analog 1/4” mix reels by Justin Perkins to hi-res digital, then cut by Joe Nino-Hernes at Sterling ...

11/21/2025

Today is the day. The Replacements ‘Let It Be’ (Deluxe Edition) is available on your streaming service of choice, as well as 4xLP or 3xCD versions from RHINO Records.

This set was expertly produced by Peter Jesperson & Jason Jones with a few stops and starts along the way.

The full release was remastered/mastered here at Mystery Room Mastering.

Lacquers for vinyl were cut by Joe Nino-Hernes at Sterling Sound in Nashville.

For some bonus fun, Ian Olvera and I mixed some of the bonus tracks that needed mixing before they could be mastered. Some were outtakes that were never before mixed, some are alternate versions of the album takes with different vocals or in the case “Unsatisfied”, remixed so that you can hear the full version without the fade out.

Some of the b-sides are the original vintage mixes, a couple home demos of “Answering Machine”, Phillip Broussard Jr's great 2008 mixes of “Temptation Eyes” and “Perfectly Lethal” were used, and to end the bonus disc is a fun live version of “Hey Good Lookin’” with an epic solo from Bob Stinson recorded live in Madison, WI at Merlyn’s.

The live show component comes from an audience recording from The Cubby Bear (Chicago) in August of 1984 where they open with a new song in the key of D, “Can’t Hardly Wait”. While it may not be a professional audiophile live recording, it’s a fun listen.