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Vlado Meller
Vlado Meller (born in 1947 in Humenné as Vladimír Meller)[1][2] is a Slovak audio mastering engineer, currently with Vlado Meller Mastering in Charleston, South Carolina.[3] Meller works across many genres of music, with credits on rock, hip-hop, pop, jazz, metal, dance, opera, Broadway, and classical albums over 50+ year career.[3][4] Albums that he engineered have won two Grammy Awards.[5] BiographyMeller was born in the former Czechoslovakia and received violin lessons at an early age. He graduated from high school in Košice, Slovakia and studied electrical engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. After the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, Meller was a refugee in Austria and Italy before emigrating to the United States.[6] In December 1969 he obtained an entry-level job at CBS Records in New York, and later received training in audio mastering.[3][7] He worked with Sony/CBS for 38 years, and then joined Universal Mastering Studios in 2007 as senior mastering engineer.[8] He later spent a short time at Masterdisk,[9] then relocated to Charleston, South Carolina where he opened his own facility, Vlado Meller Mastering, in 2014.[10] DiscographyA list of noteworthy albums Vlado has mastered includes:
Awards and recognitionAlbums engineered by Meller have been nominated for seven Grammy Awards and have won two Latin Grammy Awards.[5][11] Grammy Awards
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