A gearhead with a mean vinyl fetish, Pete Lyman spends most of his time as co-owner and principal mastering engineer at Infrasonic Mastering getting down and dirty with the company’s Scully LS-76.
For those not in the know, this badass machine is a vintage piece dating back to 1978 and one of only a handful of functioning vinyl lacquer-cutting pieces in the world. The new mastering facility, opened four months ago in Echo Park, acts as a satellite to Lyman and business partner Jeff Ehrenberg’s East L.A. recording and mastering studio,Infrasonic Sound, which has created vinyl magic for the likes of Radiohead, Beck, the Mars Volta, Best Coast, No Age, Butch Walker, Wavves, Gogol Bordello, Daniel Johnston and Jason Falkner.
Lyman describes to Linda A. Rapka on a typically hot Echo Park summer afternoon the allure of the vinyl lathe and what keeps bands — and him — coming back for more. Continue reading
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