Prior to opening the Raleigh, NC-based mastering facility, Bluefield Mastering, in 2001, Jeff Carroll served ten years as a mastering engineer for American Media International. Three years of performing audio restoration followed at the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Jeff's diverse credits include mastering a Juno-nominated album for Ron Sexsmith and Don Kerr titled Destination Unknown, transferring source tapes for the Grammy-nominated box set The Best of Broadside 1962-1988, and restoring a speech from 1958 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jeff has mastered all types of music for a broad range of artists, producers, engineers and labels worldwide. He has restored, preserved and digitized countless recordings made on rare and obsolete formats, many containing some of the most important recordings in the history of American music.

A life-long musician, some of Jeff's former bands include the Desmonds, Notes From a Strange Mailbag, and Big Kids. He is currently a member of the studio-only band, the Feargall Family. He strongly advocates Performance Rights of musicians, as well as music education through his hands-on involvement in various community-oriented projects and non-profit organizations. He has been a featured mastering panelist at several TapeOpCon audio conventions (renamed PotLuckCon in 2008). Jeff is a voting member member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (the Grammys), the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (the Juno Awards), and the Audio Engineering Society.

Throughout Jeff's career he has developed a reputation for providing steadfast aesthetic and technical guidance to industry professionals navigating the continuously evolving music business. A unique combination of musical, technical and communication skills has provided his clients with unsurpassed quality, service and creativity in audio mastering.