Staff Engineers

Though he's never been a musician, Carl Rowatti, President and Chief Engineer, of Trutone Mastering Labs NYC, can really play the lathe! As a youngster growing up in New Jersey, Carl was fascinated by his violinist dad's weekend gig … recording wedding ceremonies on a vintage tape recorder and cutting 78 RPM records of the services for the happy couples.    A naturally gifted techie, Carl was soon earning spending money recording garage and local school productions with his dad’s gear. A search for microphones at a local radio station turned up a disc cutting lathe far superior to his dad’s old Presto and greatly enhanced the quality of Carl’s masters. “I was always visiting record stores and calling on label execs; before long I built a formidable client base”….such was the early beginnings of Trutone.

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Today Carl is renowned in the US and internationally as an aficionado on the art of cutting and mastering vinyl records. Carl’s talents are not only directed to music; phono cartridge manufacturers Stanton and Shure have consulted with Carl to create special test records that are utilized to ensure quality and uniformity of their respective cartridge lines. In addition Stanton’s “Final Scratch” record was also mastered by Carl.

At Trutone’s new state of the art mastering complex in midtown Manhattan, Carl is super busy heading up Trutone’s engineering team, keeping the studios vast inventory of equipment running smoothly and mastering and cutting tons of records (and CDs) daily for major and indie labels, DJ’s, remixers, artists and producers. To date it is estimated that Carl has mastered well in excess of 20,000 records! Carl loves improvising with his array of analog and digital processors and his loyal clients are ecstatic about the “magical” results he effortlessly seems to achieve. Book a session with Carl and hear for yourself!