[citation needed] For the next decade, he was responsible for compiling hundreds of budget cassette releases for MCA's Special Products division, with a focus was on jazz and big band recordings.
[2] In 1985, Hoffman worked on a series of releases aimed at the CD market which bore the title "From the Original Master Tapes."
This series included works of artists such as Buddy Holly, Bill Haley and John Coltrane.
[3][4] The adjustments Hoffman makes depend on the quality of the tape source and the equalization choices of the mixing engineer.
While he avoids noise reduction, he does add subjective "colorations" through subtractive equalization and up to five layers of vacuum tube distortion.