Stan Ricker

Stan Ricker was a recording, mastering and lacquer-cutting engineer known for cutting vinyl at half speed (hence the SR2 or SR/2 for "Stan Ricker 1/2).
He has worked at
Keysor-Century Studios (1969 - 1970 and 1974 - 1975),
United Sound (3) (1970 - 1973),
Location Recording Service (1973 - 1974),
JVC Cutting Center (1975 - 1979),
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (1979 - 1983 with some additional short stints in 1986 and 1995),
AcousTech Mastering (as contractor 1995 - 2001),
and was the owner of Stan Ricker Mastering (1997 - 2015).

Note: Since 1984 he was working full-time at the Naval Air Warfare Center at China Lake, CA.

Stan was born Stanley Dunbar Forbes III in Marblehead, Mass., on Dec. 14, 1935. His parents divorced and his mother later married George Noble Ricker. Stan was adopted by George and given the Ricker surname.

He was voted Disk Cutting Engineer of the Year in 1981 by a Playboy Readers Poll and voted Recording Engineer of the Year in 1984.

He passed away on July 16th, 2015.

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