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.

Miller Carr & the Shalants

Passage Through Wilderness, Vol. 2 American Dust

Daniel Steinbock

The Blade

The Soft Machine

Volume Two

Water (2007 Remaster)

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Chronicle

Fantasy (original CD issue, 1985)

Don Bikoff

Celestial Explosion

Tompkins Square

Port O’Brien

The Wind And The Swell

American Dust

The Barry Sisters

Our Way

Reboot Stereophonic (2008 Remaster)

Colin Blunstone

One Year

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

Eddie Gale

Ghetto Music

Water (2003 remaster)

Swans

The Burning World

Water (2012 Remaster)

Ernie Graham

4 Men With Beards (2014 LP Remaster)

Brigitte Fontaine

Est…Folle

Superior Viaduct (2013 remaster)

Patty Waters

You Thrill Me: A Musical
Odyssey 1962-1979

DBK Works

Judee Sill

Dreams Come True

Water

Eddie Gale

Black Rhythm Happening

Water (2003 remaster)

Patty Waters

Happiness Is A Thing Called
Joe

DBK Works

Ruthann Friedman

Constant Companion

Water (2007 remaster)

Allen Toussaint

Southern Nights

Water (2006 Remaster)

Devo

Hardcore Devo Vol. 1 & 2

Superior Viaduct (2013 Remaster)

Flamin’ Groovies

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

Water (2005 remaster)

David J

Crocodile Tears and the
Velvet Cosh

Plain (2006 Remaster)

The Moore Bros.

Murdered By The Moore
Bros.

Plain Recordings

Noh Mercy

Superior Viaduct (2012 Remaster)

Various Artists

Contemporary Guitar

4 Men With Beards (2012 LP Remaster)

Flipper

Generic

Water (2008 Remaster)!

Flamin’ Groovies

Now

4 Men With Beards

Plainsong

In Search of Amelia
Earhart/ Now We Are
Three

Water (2006 remaster)

Terry Adams & Marshall Allen

Ten By Two

Edisun

Hip Hop Hoodios

Agua Pa’ La Gente

Factrix/Cazazza

California Babylon

Superior Viaduct (2012 Remaster)

Soft Bombs

Embrace The Light

Eduard Artemiev

Mirror/Stalker (Original Soundtrack)

Superior Viaduct (2014 LP Remaster)

Don Ho

The Don Ho Show/
Don Ho Again

Water (2-fer) (2004 remaster)

Glaxo Babies

Put Me On The Guest List

Superior Viaduct (2013 Remaster)

Pearls Before Swine

The Wizard of Is

Water

Ayla Nereo

Be Held

Amy Meyers

Trains & Hens

Cheshire Moon

Peg Leg Howell

The Legendary Peg Leg Howell

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

David Ackles

Subway To The Country

International Feel (2014 Remaster)

Society Of Rockets

False Maps / Radical Scouts

Anne Briggs

The Time Has Come

Water (2007 Remaster)

Elton John

The Legendary Covers Of Elton John

DBK Works
(2006 Remaster)

La Düsseldorf

Viva

Water
(2008 Remaster)

The Tomorrow Men

It’s About Time

The Creak

Here’s To Feeling Good All The Time

Gone Jackals

Blue Pyramid

BlueBlack

David Wiffen

Water/ 4 Men With Beards (2014 Remaster)

Sit Kitty Sit

The Push

Gun Horse Records

Lou Lou & The Guitarfish

Birdman

Heldon

Interface

Superior Viaduct (2014 Remaster)

Fred Neil

Water (2006 remaster)

Waylon Jennings

When Sin Stops

Masked Weasel (2005 remaster)

Baby Huey

The Baby Huey Story:
The Living Legend

Water (2004 remaster)

Glaxo Babies

Nine Months To The Disco

Superior Viaduct (2013 remaster)

Simply Sondheim: A 75th
Birthday Salute

Kritzerland

American Music Club

San Francisco

Plain Recordings (2013 LP Remaster)

The Rezillos

Can’t Stand The Rezillos

Water (2005 Remaster)

The Rob Hart Trio

Art Of Improvisation

True West

Hollywood Holiday
Revisited

Atavistic

The Monochrome Set

Strange Boutique

4 Men With Beards (2012 Remaster)

Amy Duncan

Pilgrimage

Plain Recordings

Highway Robbers

Robbers & Swills

Crooked Roads

Heartbreak Sampler

NRBQ

Turn On, Tune In

Omnivore Recordings

Carneyball Johnson

Akron Cracker

Melvin Van Peebles

What The… You Mean
I Can’t Sing?

Water (2003 remaster)

‘Twas The Night Before Hanukkah

The Idelsohn Society
(2012 Restoration and Remastering)

Terry Reid

River

Water
(2006 Remaster)

Evergreen Dazed

The AM Sounds of
Evergreen Dazed

Mushroom

Really Don’t Mind If You Sit
This One Out

4-Zero Records

Cab 20

Cactus

Mock Records

Fred Katz Orchestras

Folk Songs For Far Out Folk

Reboot Stereo Records (2007 Remaster)

Society Of Rockets

Future Factory

Three Ring Records

Various Artists

With A Bow (Japan Disaster Benefit Album)

Kitten Charmer

NRBQ

April Showers

Omnivore Recordings

Dream Syndicate

Medicine Show

Water (2010 Remaster)

Patsy Cline

Walking and Dreaming

Masked Weasel (2005 remaster)

Flipper

Gone Fishin’

Water (2008 Remaster)

Willie Nelson

54 Songs

DBK Works (2006 Remaster)

The Moore Bros.

California Sister

Grouse

Babyfly Records

NRBQ

All Hopped Up

Omnivore (2019 Remaster)

Biff Rose

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

Water (2005 remaster)

Ralph Carney’s Serious Jass Project

Akron Cracker

Charles Brown

Black Night

Masked Weasel (2006 Remaster)

La Düsseldorf

Water
(2008 Remaster)

David Ackles

Five & Dime

International Feel (2014 Remaster)

Glenn Branca

Lesson No. 1

Superior Viaduct (2013 remaster)

Eduard Artemiev

Solaris (Original Soundtrack)

Superior Viaduct (2014 LP Remaster)

Kevin Ayers

Joy Of A Toy

Water (2007 Remaster)

NRBQ

Christmas Wish-
Deluxe Edition

Clang!

Pearls Before Swine

The Use Of Ashes

4 Men With Beards (2014 LP Remaster)

Mink de Ville

Coup de Grace

DBK Works (2005 remaster)

Ben E. King

Songs For Soulful Lovers/
Seven Letters

DBK Works (2007 Remaster)

Afrika Bambaata

Planet Rock

DBK Works
2005 Remaster

Steve Wynn

Visitation Rights

DBK Works

Apache

Boomtown Gems

Birdman

Judee Sill

Live In London

Water

Wilson Pickett

Hey Jude

DBK Works (2007 remaster)

Rybalko

Knots

Jack Palance

Water (2003 remaster)

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

The Idelsohn Society
(2010 Restoration & Remaster)

Memphis Horns

Water (2005 remaster)

Alison Faith Levy & Mushroom

Yesterday I Saw You Kissing
Tiny Flowers

4 Zero Records

Alice Coltrane

Transcendence

Antarctica Starts Here (2019 remaster)

Henry Flynt

Graduation

Superior Viaduct

Jill Tracy

Silver Smoke, Star of Night

NRBQ

Transmissions

Caraway

Dr. John

What Goes Around,
Comes Around

DBK Works (2006 Remaster)

True Margrit

Seaworthy

Bobo Tunes

John Simon

John Simon’s Album

Water (2004 remaster)

Ian Matthews

Valley Hi/ Some Days You Eat The Bear…

(2-fer) Water (2004 remaster)

Society Of Rockets

Silver Age

Three Ring Records

The Moore Bros.

Bee

Plain Recordings

Griddle

Turning Violet

Your Permanent Records

The Here And Now Band

Coaxed Out From Oxford

4-Zero

Eugene McDaniels

Headless Heroes of the
Apocalypse

Water (2005 remaster)

Ennio Morricone

Crime & Dissonance

Ipecac

Jackie McLean

Jackie’s Pal

Prestige (1984 OJC remaster)

Noah Georgeson

Find Shelter

Plain Recordings

Factrix

Scheintot

Superior Viaduct (2012 remaster)

Low

Long Division

4 Men With Beards (2012 Remaster)

Kerry Wing

Bio-Electric Love

David Ackles

American Gothic

International Feel (2014 Remaster)|International Feel (2014 Remaster)

Gilberto Gil

Cérebro Electrónico

Water (2008 Remaster)

Caravan

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

4 Men With Beards (2014 LP Remaster)

Flipper

Public Flipper Limited
Live 1980-1985

Water (2008 Remaster)

Lightnin’ Hopkins

Bring Me My Shotgun

Masked Weasel (2006 remaster)

Jason Overton

Tracy Nelson

Water (2004 remaster)

Sit Kitty Sit

Beautiful/Terrible

Gun Horse Records

Alice Coltrane

Transfiguration

Antarctica Starts Here (2019 remaster)

NRBQ

NRBQ (1969)

Omnivore (2018 Remaster)

Ralph Carney’s Serious Jass Project

Seriously

Smog Veil

David J

On Glass

Plain (2006 remaster)

The Coldest Fire

Debut

Renee’s Here!

Walking Sideways

Alice Coltrane

Eternity

Antarctica Starts Here (2019 remaster)

The Bonedrivers

Roadhouse Manifesto

BlueBlack

Gone Jackals

Out and About with
the Gone Jackals

BlueBlack

Alice Coltrane

Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana

Antarctica Starts Here (2018 remaster)

Ryan Mintz

Love Letter

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

The Idelsohn Society
(2011 Restoration & Remaster)

Hélène Renaut

Tiny Specks Of Delight

Kitten Charmer

Diane Ferlatte with Erik Pearson

Wickety Whack – Brer Rabbit Is Back

*Grammy Nominee 2007*

Derek Lassiter

Witness

Beevine

Pearls Before Swine

Jewels Were The Stars

Water (4-cd Box Set)

Guy Clark

Old No. 1

4 Men With Beards

Bill Evans

Re: Person I Knew

Milestone (1985 remaster)

Port O’Brien

All We Could Do Was Sing

Port O'Brien

Paul Westerberg

14 Songs

Plain Recordings (2014 LP Remaster)

Sonny Sharrock

Black Woman

Water (2002 remaster)

The Avengers

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

Brigitte Fontaine/ Art Ensemble Of Chicago

Comme À La Radio CD

Superior Viaduct (2013 remaster)

Radio Birdman

Radios Appear

International Feel (2012 remaster)

Gary is great. He has mastered my last 4 albums and I send clients that I record to him as well. He knows what to do and what not to do. He is also a great musician which gives him a great feel for song spacing when mastering.

Michael Padilla, The Soft Bombs

Eugene McDaniels

Headless Heroes of the
Apocalypse

Water (2005 remaster)