List Wally Traugott mastered cds!

I have with me a movie soundtrack "Round midnight" mastered by Wally Traugott and it sounds fabulous. Warm and smooth through out. Anyone compiled a list of CDs that hes done?

 

Hmm, not much activity here.

Little River Band - 'Greatest Hits' (CDP 546021)

 

Dr. Hook - Greatest Hits (and More)
Richard Marx - Repeat Offender, Rush Street, Paid Vacation
Bob Seger - Greatest Hits (Vol. 1), The Fire Inside
Eddie Money - Right Here
Tina Turner - Simply The Best

 

Realize that most of these are probably just reprinted from the original LP credits. I am unaware of ANY Wally-mastered CD's, although I could be wrong.

 

CLERKS: OST

 

Wally did not master CD's as far as I know.
Although, I hope I'm wrong!
I used to Love his LP masterings with a pasion in my vinyl collecting days.

 

Well, I did some Google search and found this:

Wally Traugott got credits for "Digital Remastering" on the Barry Manilow comp "Complete Collection and Then Some..."

... and a "Digital Mastering" credit for Bob Neuwirth's "99 Monkeys"

... and a "Digital Mastering" credit for the sampler "On the Cutting Edge"

and last but not least a "Digital Mastering" credit for Lee Ritenour's CD "Festival".

So Wally Traugott sure knows how to deal with a digital mastering machine

 

I don't know if Bob Segar's Greatest Hits was put out on vinyl or not... but the CD only lists Wally as the mastering engineer.

Since this was a compilation concieved mainly for the (then) new and growing CD market, I'm convinced that Wally did master the CD.

 

The currently available Sony Legacy reissue (2002) says:

under "Original LP credits":

Mastered by Wally Traugott at Capitol Recording Studios

under "Reissue credits":

Mastered by Darcy M. Proper at Sony Music Studios, New York

 

nice, but unfortunately a far cry from his glorious vinyl years...

 

no wonder I love this CD! original mixes sans any remixed songs!

 

Add Juice Newton's "Greatest Hits (And More)" to the list of Wally CDs.

Capitol was probably the first label to include extra tracks on their previously released "Greatest Hits" CDs compilations. They even had a custom logo, "CD Extra Traxx Pax".

 

Who could forget 'Clandestine Electronic Subculture' by Symbiosis?

 

I posted a couple of Wally's CDs in the wrong thread awhile back.

I opened up a 1997 CD, EARTH by The Bob Florence Limited Edition, a jazz big band, and it says Mastered by Wally Traugott at Tower Mastering.

The Bob Florence Limited Edition. EARTH. Mama Records, MMF 1016, 1997. CD


Bob Florence passed away two years ago.

 

I can confirm the Elixir Fourplay album 1996 Warner Brothers. It says
"Mastered by Wally Traugott at Capitol Disk Mastering".

Now the only question is who is wearing the odd shoes in the CD photo.

 

Today I bought a used CD of Bob Seger's "Nine Tonight"(Remastered).
Thought it sounded pretty good.
Checked who did the remastering and it said Wally Traugott.
I see that he has passed on unfortunately.
CD sounds good.

 

I have John Lee Hooker and Jimmy Reed CDs mastered by Wally.

 

Billy Squier -- 16 Strokes: The Best of Billy Squier
Capitol CDP 7243 8 31831 2 8
31831-2 MO Y5131I Y 1-1-6 EMI JAX
Released: 04-Apr-95 on CD only
724383183128
87.8 / 88.7 / 88.3 / 98.8 / 90.2 / 98.6 / 92.7 / 96.0 / 94.7 / 94.6 / 98.8 / 98.8 / 98.8 / 98.8 / 98.8 / 98.8
From Booklet: Digitally Mastered by Wally Traugott at Capitol Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA.

 

Soul Asylum -- Grave Dancers Union
Columbia CK 48898
1A CK48898 15 C3 P 66 (Pitman pressing)
Released: 06-Oct-92 (CD and LP )
074644889826
97.9 / 99.0 / 98.4 / 98.7 / 96.6 / 99.0 / 97.5 / 99.1 / 98.9 / 99.9 / 97.8 / 95.2
From Booklet: Mastered by Wally Traugott at Capitol

 

Indigo Girls -- Rites of Passage
Epic EK 48865
1A EK48865 25 C2 CMU P 107 (early Pitman pressing)
Released: 12-May-92 (CD and LP )
Remastered in 2000 (Remastering credit ???)
074644886528
96.5 / 98.8 / 95.4 / 96.5 / 99.9 / 96.7 / 73.0 / 99.1 / 95.9 / 89.9 / 97.4 / 95.1 / 95.6
From Booklet: Mastered by Wally Traugott at Capitol Records

 

Bob Seger -- The Fire Inside (later pressing ~1994)
Capitol CDP 7 91134 2
CPCD 91134 RE1 S1628F Y 1-1-25 EMI JAX
mould code: ifpi 163F
Released: 27-Aug-91 (CD and LP )
077779113422
96.5 / 96.3 / 99.9 / 99.7 / 96.3 / 98.4 / 97.4 / 97.5 / 97.6 / 95.5 / 100.0 / 96.3
From Booklet: Mastered by Wally Traugott at Capitol Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA

 

Crowded House -- Crowded House (CD XTRA TRAX PAX)
Capitol CDP 7 46693 2, DIDX 1395
DIDX 1395 11A1
Released: 01-Jun-86 (CD and LP)
077774669320
66.1 / 58.7 / 56.4 / 62.8 / 71.1 / 80.4 / 70.5 / 87.0 / 61.7 / 63.2 / 60.1
From Booklet: Mastered by Wally Traugott at Capitol Recording Studios

 

Juice Newton -- Old Flame (RCA Victor Blue Ring)
RCA Victor PCD1-5493 (Japan)
PCD-15493 3A1 5Z (Denon pressing)
Matrix Code: Etched Dot Matrix in inner mirror band (~1.7-1.9 mm in height)
Matrix Font: Monospaced Slab Serif font
Released: 21-Oct-85 (LP)
Released: Between 1985-1988 (CD) based on Denon pressing matrix)
078635549324
96.0 / 90.7 / 79.8 / 81.0 / 75.9 / 88.9 / 90.1 / 78.7 / 81.0 / 86.6
From Booklet (Poster style): Mastered by Wally Traugott at Capitol Recording Studios
Note: While booklet states Traugott mastering some time elapsed between LP and CD release, so it could have been mastered by someone else.