| Vlado Meller | |
| Birth Place: | Humenné, Czechoslovakia |
| Education: | Czech Technical University in Prague |
| Occupation: | Mastering engineer |
| Years Active: | 1969–present |
Vlado Meller (born in 1947 in Humenné as Vladimír Meller)[1] [2] is a Slovak audio mastering engineer, currently with Vlado Meller Mastering in Charleston, South Carolina.[3] Meller works across many genres of music, with credits on rock, hip-hop, pop, jazz, metal, dance, opera, Broadway, and classical albums over 50+ year career.[4] Albums that he engineered have won two Grammy Awards.
Meller was born in the former Czechoslovakia and received violin lessons at an early age. He graduated from high school in Košice, Slovakia and studied electrical engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. After the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, Meller was a refugee in Austria and Italy before emigrating to the United States.[5] In December 1969 he obtained an entry-level job at CBS Records in New York, and later received training in audio mastering.[6] He worked with Sony/CBS for 38 years, and then joined Universal Mastering Studios in 2007 as senior mastering engineer.[7] He later spent a short time at Masterdisk,[8] then relocated to Charleston, South Carolina where he opened his own facility, Vlado Meller Mastering, in 2014.[9]
A list of noteworthy albums Vlado has mastered includes:
Albums engineered by Meller have been nominated for seven Grammy Awards and have won two Latin Grammy Awards.[10] [11]
|-|2004|Unearthed|Best Historical Album||-|2005|Late Registration|rowspan="5"|Album of the Year||-|2006|Stadium Arcadium||-|2007|Graduation||-|2008|Tha Carter III||-|rowspan="2"|2012|Channel Orange||-|"Thinkin Bout You"|Record of the Year|
|-|rowspan="2"|2006|rowspan="2"|Fijación Oral, Vol. 1|Album of the Year||-|Best Engineered Album|