A. Hammer Mastering

10/25/2023

Happy Birthday Tompkins Square Records!

TODAY is Tompkins Square's 18th Birthday ! Listen : https://tinyurl.com/4dbp4373

10/07/2023

A whole bunch of great records recently mastered here at A. Hammer Mastering are available for Bandcamp Friday over at the Tompkins Square page!

Of particular interest is a free preview track from the upcoming debut album from Muireann Bradley, a young blues, ragtime, roots and folk guitarist and singer based in Ballybofey in County Donegal Ireland. Tompkins Square actually signed her when she was 13, but because of Covid and just “growing up", the process of recording took place over three years. She will be 17 in December.

Her debut album I KEPT THESE OLD BLUES will be released worldwide on cassette, LP and CD December 8th, 2023. Today, we released her take on "Richland Woman Blues" on every digital platform Link in the first comment), as well as an album PRE-ORDER over at BandCamp.

It's bandcamp Friday ! A great moment to buy something, old or new. https://tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/music

09/29/2023

Today!

One more studio will be opening their doors this Friday for SF Studio Crawl: is a professional mastering studio for CD, Digital Distribution and Vinyl.

More info at https://aessf.org/event/san-francisco-studio-crawl-2023/

08/19/2023

Read about the making of Junk Parlor's ALL MAGIC, NO LOGIC great new album mastered here at A. Hammer!

Can you tell us about the inspiration behind "Hungry for Love" and the story it tells? Hungry for Love is the mood of soul-searching debauchery that comes with wandering late at night from bar to bar. It's the contrast between urban neon lights against a clear and dark starry sky. The in

08/17/2023

Celebrating Bola Sete's centennial!

The 3-cd set SAMBA IN SEATTLE that we mastered here at A. Hammer for Tompkins Square Records in 2021 (★ ★ ★ ★ - MOJO !) is available here:
https://tinyurl.com/26n5zvwe

The late guitarist, who would have just turned 100, blew the minds of Carlos Santana, John Fahey and more with his hypnotic technique and expansive creative vision

06/16/2023

Live streaming listening party right now- the 5-CD retrospective box set RICK DEITRICK: THE UNGUITARIST from Tompkins Square records, mastered here at A. Hammer. Join in and enjoy one of the most individual voices in acoustic guitar of the last few decades!

Join Tompkins Square for a free listening party to celebrate 'The Unguitarist : Complete Works 1969-2022’. First time doing this, but we’ll discuss the box and give away free vinyl and download codes to various Tompkins Square releases, if all goes well. “The cohesion of sound and mood over 50...

05/31/2023

Came across this very fun interview I did 7 years ago for Matt Boudreau's Working Class Audio Podcast. There's a lot of good information here about why mastering matters, and what goals you should be looking to achieve from you mastering session. Thanks for listening!

Working Class Audio Session #076 with Gary Hobish!!! ITUNES | iHEARTRADIO | YOUTUBE | GOOGLE | SOUNDCLOUD Gary Hobish brings over 30 years of experience as a professional recording engineer/producer to A. Hammer Mastering which he runs out of Secret Studios in San Francisco. He started as an ass...

04/20/2023

Had a ball remastering this 2006 session featuring NRBQ Headquarters co-founders Steve Ferguson and Terry Adams, coming in a few weeks from Omnivore Recordings, here at A. Hammer. Includes a couple of remixes and 4 previously unavailable tracks!

LOUISVILLE SLUGGERS coming MAY 12

 Terry Adams and Steve Ferguson (NRBQ’s original guitarist) reunited and recorded LOUISVILLE SLUGGERS in 2006. It will be reissued with bonus tracks by Omnivore Recordings on 5/12!

★ Tom Ardolino - drums ★ Liner notes by Donn Adams.
★ Front cover photo by Jeff Benko
★ remastered by Gary Hobish with 17 tracks.

Pre- order here! - free postcard with another photo from Mr Benko.
http://www.nrbq.com/store_cds.html

photo by Fuzzy

03/30/2023

Proudly remastered by Gary Hobish here at A. Hammer!

03/18/2023

RELEASED TODAY:

UNDER AN ENDLESS SKY- Moskowitz and the United States of Alchemy (Moskowitz, electronic composer Francesco Paolo Paladino, and writer Luca Chino Ferrari).

A brand new album from the singer and lyricist of the legendary avant-garde band The United States Of America, whose sole 1968 album is widely acknowledged as a visionary psychedelic classic.

Proud and honored to have mastered this important new recording at A. Hammer Mastering for Tompkins Square Records.

7 track album

01/05/2023

Happy NRBQ Headquarters’ TIDDLYWINKS reissue announcement day!

Coming January 27 from Omnivore Recordings and happily remastered by Gary Hobish here at A. Hammer Mastering!

http://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/tiddlywinks/