Clients

Gary Hobish brings over 40 years of experience as a professional recording engineer/ producer to A. Hammer Mastering. He has been a Mastering Specialist since 1982, with hundreds of albums to his credit covering all genres of recordings — from classic jazz to classic rock, alt-rock, rap and hard rock to folk, classical, spoken word and even sound effects.

NRBQ • Willie Nelson • Judee Sill • Dream Syndicate • Soft Machine • Ralph Carney’s Serious Jass Project • The San Francisco Silent Film Festival • Jill Tracy • Flipper • True Margrit • The TomorrowMen • G.G. Amos • Julia Kierstine • Blar Hansen • Lee Hazelwood • The Feelies • Fairport Convention • Electric Shepherd • Ganglians • Dominant Legs • INTACT • Marlina Teich • The Ferocious Few • The Shockwaves • Water Records • Reboot Stereophonic Records • Steve Wynn • Society Of Rockets • Guy Clark • Kevin Ayers • Harmonia • Thomas Mapfumo • Department Of Eagles • Flamin’ Groovies • The Creak • The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir • Port O’Brien • Birdman Records • Cluster • Mitch Ryder • Matt Johnson • Gilberto Gil • Adam Shulman Quintet • Halley Elwell • Gloria Reuben • Griddle • The Family Crest • Eddie Mueller (Noir City Film Festival) • Kitchen Fire • The Surfside IV • The Spyrals • Jaime Records • Apache • Evacuee • The Deadbeats • Murder Of Lilies • Here And Now • Sean O’Brien • Todayok • Sun Of Monkey • The Soft Bombs • The Warlocks • Astral • The Moore Brothers • Pearls Before Swine • Cuckoo Chaos • Siletto Ghetto • The Vibe Project • Foreign Cinema • Robert Mac • Colin Blunstone (Zombies) • PC Munoz • David J (of Bauhaus/ Love and Rockets) • True West • Making Dinner • 20-Sided Records • Mushroom • Jack Palance • Matthew Baldwin • Terry Adams & Marshall Allen • CarneyBall Johnson • Shameless Will • Shel Silverstein • The Sugarhill Gang • The Rob Hart Trio • Patty Waters • The Bonedrivers • Ennio Morricone • Dr. John • Groovy Judy • Alicia Dattner • Hip Hop Hoodios • Hot Mute • Derek Lassiter • Highway Robbers • Crooked Roads • Don Ho • Sonny Sharrock • SF Panhandlers • Waylon Jennings • Archie Bell and the Drells • The Procrastinistas • Memphis Horns

Along with the featured projects below, an extensive list of Gary’s credits are available at the All Music Guide and Discogs.

Mushroom

Really Don’t Mind If You Sit This One Out 4-Zero Records

Bill Evans

Re: Person I Knew

Milestone (1985 remaster)

NRBQ

NRBQ (1969)

Omnivore (2018 Remaster)

Baby Huey

The Baby Huey Story:
The Living Legend

Water (2004 remaster)

The Creak

Here’s To Feeling Good All The Time

Anne Briggs

The Time Has Come

Water (2007 Remaster)

Patty Waters

You Thrill Me: A Musical
Odyssey 1962-1979

DBK Works

Jack Palance

Water (2003 remaster)

Don Ho

The Don Ho Show/
Don Ho Again

Water (2-fer) (2004 remaster)

The Soft Machine

Volume Two

Water (2007 Remaster)

Sit Kitty Sit

Beautiful/Terrible

Gun Horse Records

Miller Carr & the Shalants

Passage Through
Wilderness, Vol. 2

American Dust

Eduard Artemiev

Solaris (Original Soundtrack)

Superior Viaduct (2014 LP Remaster)

Devo

Hardcore Devo Vol. 1 & 2

Superior Viaduct (2013 Remaster)

Paul Westerberg

14 Songs

Plain Recordings (2014 LP Remaster)

Glenn Branca

Lesson No. 1

Superior Viaduct (2013 remaster)

Factrix/Cazazza

California Babylon

Superior Viaduct (2012 Remaster)

The Moore Bros.

Bee

Plain Recordings

Terry Adams & Marshall Allen

Ten By Two

Edisun

Colin Blunstone

One Year

Water (2007 CD Remaster) / 4 Men With Beards (2013 LP Remaster)

‘Twas The Night Before Hanukkah

The Idelsohn Society
(2012 Restoration and Remastering)

Terry Reid

River

Water
(2006 Remaster)

Brigitte Fontaine/ Art Ensemble Of Chicago

Comme À La Radio CD

Superior Viaduct (2013 remaster)

Ben E. King

Songs For Soulful Lovers/
Seven Letters

DBK Works (2007 Remaster)

Heldon

Interface

Superior Viaduct (2014 Remaster)

Diane Ferlatte with Erik Pearson

Wickety Whack – Brer Rabbit Is Back

*Grammy Nominee 2007*

Noh Mercy

Superior Viaduct (2012 Remaster)

Ralph Carney’s Serious Jass Project

Akron Cracker

Pearls Before Swine

The Use Of Ashes

4 Men With Beards (2014 LP Remaster)

Noah Georgeson

Find Shelter

Plain Recordings

Swans

The Burning World

Water (2012 Remaster)

David J

Crocodile Tears and the
Velvet Cosh

Plain (2006 Remaster)

Biff Rose

The Thorn In Mrs. Rose’s Side / Children of Light

Water (2005 remaster)

Judee Sill

Live In London

Water

Wilson Pickett

Hey Jude

DBK Works (2007 remaster)

Don Bikoff

Celestial Explosion

Tompkins Square

Flipper

Gone Fishin’

Water (2008 Remaster)

Radio Birdman

Radios Appear

International Feel (2012 remaster)

Jill Tracy

Silver Smoke, Star of Night

Ayla Nereo

Be Held

Willie Nelson

54 Songs

DBK Works (2006 Remaster)

Soft Bombs

Embrace The Light

Patty Waters

Happiness Is A Thing Called
Joe

DBK Works

Highway Robbers

Robbers & Swills

Jackie McLean

Jackie’s Pal

Prestige (1984 OJC remaster)

Lou Lou & The Guitarfish

Birdman

David Wiffen

Water/ 4 Men With Beards (2014 Remaster)

The Here And Now Band

Coaxed Out From Oxford

4-Zero

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Chronicle

Fantasy (original CD issue, 1985)

Apache

Boomtown Gems

Birdman

Daniel Steinbock

The Blade

The Barry Sisters

Our Way

Reboot Stereophonic (2008 Remaster)

Flamin’ Groovies

Bust Out At Full Speed – The Sire Years
(3 cd Box Set)

Water (2005 remaster)

Caravan

If I could Do It All Over Again, I’d Do It All Over You

4 Men With Beards (2014 LP Remaster)

American Music Club

San Francisco

Plain Recordings (2013 LP Remaster)

Kevin Ayers

Joy Of A Toy

Water (2007 Remaster)

Lightnin’ Hopkins

Bring Me My Shotgun

Masked Weasel (2006 remaster)

Low

Long Division

4 Men With Beards (2012 Remaster)

Amy Meyers

Trains & Hens

Cheshire Moon

Alison Faith Levy & Mushroom

Yesterday I Saw You Kissing
Tiny Flowers

4 Zero Records

Gilberto Gil

Cérebro Electrónico

Water (2008 Remaster)

Charles Brown

Black Night

Masked Weasel (2006 Remaster)

David Ackles

Five & Dime

International Feel (2014 Remaster)

Brigitte Fontaine

Est…Folle

Superior Viaduct (2013 remaster)

Ennio Morricone

Crime & Dissonance

Ipecac

Flipper

Public Flipper Limited
Live 1980-1985

Water (2008 Remaster)

Cab 20

Cactus

Mock Records

Gone Jackals

Out and About with
the Gone Jackals

BlueBlack

Eugene McDaniels

Headless Heroes of the
Apocalypse

Water (2005 remaster)

Derek Lassiter

Witness

Beevine

Patsy Cline

Walking and Dreaming

Masked Weasel (2005 remaster)

Carneyball Johnson

Akron Cracker

The Moore Bros.

Murdered By The Moore
Bros.

Plain Recordings

Hip Hop Hoodios

Agua Pa’ La Gente

Melvin Van Peebles

What The… You Mean
I Can’t Sing?

Water (2003 remaster)

Pearls Before Swine

Jewels Were The Stars

Water (4-cd Box Set)

Flamin’ Groovies

Now

4 Men With Beards

Factrix

Scheintot

Superior Viaduct (2012 remaster)

Ruthann Friedman

Constant Companion

Water (2007 remaster)

Ryan Mintz

Love Letter

La Düsseldorf

Water
(2008 Remaster)

Elton John

The Legendary Covers Of Elton John

DBK Works
(2006 Remaster)

True Margrit

Seaworthy

Bobo Tunes

NRBQ

Transmissions

Caraway

Grouse

Babyfly Records

Amy Duncan

Pilgrimage

Plain Recordings

Various Artists

Contemporary Guitar

4 Men With Beards (2012 LP Remaster)

Afrika Bambaata

Planet Rock

DBK Works
2005 Remaster

The Bonedrivers

Roadhouse Manifesto

BlueBlack

Various Artists

With A Bow (Japan Disaster Benefit Album)

Kitten Charmer

The Rezillos

Can’t Stand The Rezillos

Water (2005 Remaster)

Henry Flynt

Graduation

Superior Viaduct

Dream Syndicate

Medicine Show

Water (2010 Remaster)

Ernie Graham

4 Men With Beards (2014 LP Remaster)

Kerry Wing

Bio-Electric Love

Mink de Ville

Coup de Grace

DBK Works (2005 remaster)

The Moore Bros.

California Sister

Tracy Nelson

Water (2004 remaster)

Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations

The Idelsohn Society
(2010 Restoration & Remaster)

Guy Clark

Old No. 1

4 Men With Beards

Griddle

Turning Violet

Your Permanent Records

Glaxo Babies

Nine Months To The Disco

Superior Viaduct (2013 remaster)

Fred Neil

Water (2006 remaster)

David J

On Glass

Plain (2006 remaster)

Fred Katz Orchestras

Folk Songs For Far Out Folk

Reboot Stereo Records (2007 Remaster)

Eddie Gale

Black Rhythm Happening

Water (2003 remaster)

Port O’Brien

The Wind And The Swell

American Dust

Memphis Horns

Water (2005 remaster)

Dr. John

What Goes Around,
Comes Around

DBK Works (2006 Remaster)

Jason Overton

Plainsong

In Search of Amelia
Earhart/ Now We Are
Three

Water (2006 remaster)

Renee’s Here!

Walking Sideways

John Simon

John Simon’s Album

Water (2004 remaster)

Hélène Renaut

Tiny Specks Of Delight

Kitten Charmer

Crooked Roads

Heartbreak Sampler

Evergreen Dazed

The AM Sounds of
Evergreen Dazed

Rybalko

Knots

The Avengers

Water/4 Men With Beards (1986 Original, 2012 remaster)

Songs For The Jewish-American Jet Set: The Tikva Records Story, 1950-1973

The Idelsohn Society
(2011 Restoration & Remaster)

The Tomorrow Men

It’s About Time

The Coldest Fire

Debut

Allen Toussaint

Southern Nights

Water (2006 Remaster)

True West

Hollywood Holiday
Revisited

Atavistic

Pearls Before Swine

The Wizard of Is

Water

The Rob Hart Trio

Art Of Improvisation

The Monochrome Set

Strange Boutique

4 Men With Beards (2012 Remaster)

Peg Leg Howell

The Legendary Peg Leg Howell

Sutro Park (2014 Remaster)|Sutro Park (2014 Remaster)

Sonny Sharrock

Black Woman

Water (2002 remaster)

Steve Wynn

Visitation Rights

DBK Works

Port O’Brien

All We Could Do Was Sing

Port O'Brien

Judee Sill

Dreams Come True

Water

Alice Coltrane

Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana

Antarctica Starts Here (2018 remaster)

Waylon Jennings

When Sin Stops

Masked Weasel (2005 remaster)

Ian Matthews

Valley Hi/ Some Days You Eat The Bear…

(2-fer) Water (2004 remaster)

Society Of Rockets

False Maps / Radical Scouts

What makes Gary really great to work with is his relaxed yet very professional attitude. He makes you feel immediately comfortable with the knowledge of his craft and makes it quite clear that he is genuinely interested and personally invested in getting you the best sound for your recording. We are really happy with the […]

The Tunnel

Soft Bombs

Embrace The Light