Irv Diehl

Mastering Engineer known to have worked at Bell Sound in the 1970s. A former studio engineer at WCKR-TV, he became chief engineer for Caedmon Records in 1966. He was the co-founder and Dean of Administration at Manhattan's Institute of Audio Research, authored several technology white papers for the Audio Engineering Society, and was a frequent recording technology contributor to dB and Billboard magazines. In vinyl runout, his involvement can be identified with a hand-scribed "I Diehl" and "Bell Sound."