Mastering Engineer Scott Sedillo at Bernie Grundman’s
Shares News Of His Work on U2 Digital Single Collection
“U2 To Love and Only Love – Deep Dives and B-Sides”
Scott Sedillo has been the mastering engineer for U2 for more than a decade, including a recent project – the first U2 digital single collection – which has involved the re-mastering of numerous tracks from the band’s back catalogue ahead of their first-ever digital release.
In April this year, U2 announced “U2 To Love and Only Love – Deep Dives and B-Sides,” 12 newly remastered single collections set to be released across multiple digital platforms this year. “U2 To Love and Only Love – Deep Dives and B-Sides.” The collections include re-mixes, live treasures – plus multiple all-new mixes – from the physical world of vinyl, CD and cassette singles released before the digital era, collected together for the first time.
Pictured is mastering engineer Scott Sedillo during the U2 project. Photo by David Goggin.
It has been 27 years since the U2 hit “Discotheque” first dominated the dance clubs as a smash hit single in January 1997, now available with a rich assemblage of re-mix versions. “U2 To Love and Only Love – Deep Dives and B-Sides” contains no less than 10 mixes of the song, and a further two of B-side “Holy Joe.” Other highlights include the radio edit to the “Howie B, Hairy B Mix” to the “DM Deep Extended Club Mix” running 10 minutes long) to the “Hexidecimal Mix” and the classic 12-inch. Plus the “Garage Mix” and the “Guilty Mix” of “Holy Joe.”
This year, Sedillo has been assembling an arsenal of vintage machines capable of playing rare masters in their original legacy forms and formats for new streaming releases in both 16- and 24-bit formats.
Sedillo explained, “The late ’90’s and early 2000s was an era of recording medium proliferation. Analog tape was still the commercial studio staple, but new digital tape formats and DAW’s were making inroads. This new campaign of 12 EPs consists of 81 songs stored across ~150 different “tapes”. Nearly every song is stored on a separate format which includes Analog Tape (1/4″, 1/2″, Dolby A/ SR/none, etc), DAT, DA88HR, 1630 3/4″ Umatic; Various audio file formats (sd2,aiff, wav) and CD.”
Sedillo continues, “The obvious reason for remastering is the higher resolution capture that modern converters offer today. Further, we have digital tools for removing unwanted noises and the ability to applying final post-production edits to the earliest generation sources. And we at BGM continue to evolve our analog playback and processing equipment to resolve the sources reproduction in the first place.”
Mastering engineer Scott Sedillo summed up his contribution to the project, “This past year has been challenging, but gratifying here at Bernie’s. It’s exciting to pull these hits out of the past and move them into today’s listening world.”
ABOUT BERNIE GRUNDMAN MASTERING
The name Bernie Grundman is synonymous with Mastering. His world-renowned facilities, responsible for a consistently large percentage of chart recordings, were launched in 1984. In 1997, Grundman opened his Tokyo mastering studios and in 1998 relocated to expanded facilities in Hollywood. Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood is a complex of six studios, including dedicated 5.1 Surround and Lacquer Cutting rooms. Virtually any analog or digital format can be played back thanks to a deep inventory of modern and legacy equipment. The facility provides high quality vinyl masters, pre-masters for CD, and file masters for standard and high-resolution digital distribution and streaming. https://www.berniegrundmanmastering.com/
