Scott Hull started on his road to mastering right at the top, with an internship at Masterdisk in 1983. Then he worked as Bob Ludwig's assistant and digital editor until 1993 when Scott finally got his chance to show what he could do. In 1994 Scott was named Chief Engineer at Masterdisk, and was now mastering major label and independent projects from around the world every day.

"Those first 15 years at Masterdisk seemed to go by in an instant," says Hull. During his tenure, Scott had the honor of mastering the legendary Donald Fagen's "Kamikirad" as well as some highly influential records like Garbage's "2.0," Shaun Mullins' "Lullabye," Spacehog's "In the Meantime" and many other notable records.

"At that point it was time to strike out on my own. I moved my mastering operation to Classic Sound, assembled my own room full of analog and digital mastering gear and mastered the Grammy winning Album of the Year: Steely Dan's 'Two Against Nature.'" That first year Scott also mastered John Mayer's "Room For Squares."

Things were changing rapidly, as Scott continued to build his reputation for excellence and creativity. While at Classic Sound, Scott also lent his signature sound to many other major label and independent records, as well as a host of influential jazz and contemporary music recordings, singer/songwriter projects and world music albums.

Then one day a call from Troy Germano led Scott to The Hit Factory where he stayed until they closed their doors in 2004. While there, Scott gave his attention to notables such as Amy Grant, Skillet, Edie Brickell and John Zorn, to name a few.

What followed was a rather short but very busy stop at Jigsaw Sound.

In late 2005, Scott opened Scott Hull Mastering. Capitalizing on the opportunity to own a piece of the rock, Scott and the crew moved the operation to the heart of midtown Manhattan and set up as a full-featured, professional mastering facility.

But fate unveiled an interesting twist. In June of 2008 Scott purchased Masterdisk mastering studios. Scott personally knew all of the engineers still at Masterdisk and he had worked with them 10 years before. And of course he knew the facility like the back of his hand. So who says you can't go back home again? (Provided it hasn't been torn down before you get there, of course!)

Since then Scott has been busy revitalizing the Masterdisk name by building on the work of the great engineers on staff (Tony Dawsey and Andy VanDette to name a couple), hiring young new engineers, and bringing veteran engineer Vlado Meller on board in 2011. The studio has been thriving under his leadership with more expansion to come.

In the meantime, Scott is still mastering amazing projects every day. "The new music business is very interesting," says Hull. "Many more records are being made, and some of them are recorded unconventionally. More and more we see records come in that were recorded in less-than-optimal settings. So high-quality mastering is really more important than ever." 

Projects recently completed by Scott include Sting's "25 Years" CD/DVD box set, Dave Matthews Band "Live at Wrigley Field," the Original Cast Recording of "The Book of Mormon," and Laurie Anderson's "Homeland."