Jack Joseph Puig is an American audio engineer, A&R executive, and record producer. He has worked with Tonic, Hole, John Mayer, Fiona Apple, Counting Crows, U2, and many others. Puig has shared Grammy Awards with The Goo Goo Dolls, Sheryl Crow, Vanessa Carlton, John Mayer, Fergie (The Black Eyed Peas), U2, and No Doubt.
In 2006, Puig became an executive vice president at Interscope-Geffen-A&M Records. He has signed Klaxons and Charlotte Sometimes. As an A&R man he works with Shirley Manson, Ashlee Simpson, Klaxons, Charlotte Sometimes, Counting Crows, Puddle of Mudd, and The Like.
Prior to his mainstream music production successes, Puig rose to prominence as an engineer in the Contemporary “Christian” music scene of the mid-eighties. He worked mainly on Myrrh Records releases. He engineered for “Christian” acts such as Amy Grant, Kathy Troccoli, Leslie Phillips, and Russ Taff. Some of the records he engineered were Grammy-award winning works such as Grant’s landmark 1985 Lp Unguarded.
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George Y. Massenburg (*1947) is a Grammy award-winning recording engineer and inventor. Working principally in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Macon, Georgia, Massenburg is widely known for submitting a paper to the Audio Engineering Society in 1972 regarding the parametric equalizer.
At 15, Massenburg worked part-time both in the recording studio and in an electronics laboratory. He attended Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and Johns Hopkins University, majoring in electrical engineering. As a sophomore, he left the University and never returned.
Massenburg authored a technical paper entitled “parametric equalization” which was presented at the 42nd convention of the Audio Engineering Society in 1972. He is regularly published in professional journals and trade magazines worldwide. In 1973 and 1974, he was chief engineer of Studio Europa-Sonor in Paris, France, and helped Gerhard Lehner install the expanded Neve 80 series console at Barclay Records studio on Avenue Hoche. During those years, Massenburg also did freelance engineering and equipment design in Europe.
Massenburg participated (individually and collaboratively) in over four hundred record albums over the past 45 years. His work includes recordings of Earth, Wind & Fire, James Taylor, Billy Joel, Toto, Journey, Madeleine Peyroux, Weather Report, Aaron Neville, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Linda Ronstadt, Herbie Hancock, The Seldom Scene, and many more. He has designed, built, and managed several recording studios, notably Iti Studios in Hunt Valley, Maryland, Blue Seas Recording in Baltimore, and The Complex in Los Angeles. In addition, he has contributed to the acoustical and architectural design of many other studios, including Skywalker Sound and The Site in Marin County, California.
Dave Pensado is a Grammy Award-winning mix engineer. His career began in Atlanta in the 1970s and 1980s doing live and studio sound engineering. He has lived in Los Angeles since 1990. He mixes between 200 and 250 songs a year at Larrabee Studios in Los Angeles. When recording he usually records at Echo Bar Studios in North Hollywood.
On September 12, 2011, mixing engineer Dave Pensado started a weekly show called Pensado’s Place, together with Herb Trawick, his manager and business partner. The first part of the show is about audio engineering techniques; Dave evaluates—sometimes assisted or even replace by a guest speaker—new plugins, outboard gear like microphones, and he demonstrates in detail how to improve different aspects of the mix. The second part Dave and Herb interview together a mixer, master engineer, producer, label Ceo and/or singer-songwriter. Dave asks questions about the general approach and philosophy, and often zooms in on a selection of songs and/or albums his guest(s) worked on, discussing technical details. Herb merely focusses his questions and remarks on the business aspect of music. At the end of every show there is a Q&A: questions of the audience are asked and answered. All episodes are posted on the pensadoplace.tv website, but also on the YouTube channel Pensado’s Place, and are available for free.
Andrew Scheps is an American mix engineer, recording engineer, record producer, and record label owner, based in Los Angeles and the United Kingdom. He received Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album for his work on Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Stadium Arcadium, Album of the Year for Adele’s 21, and Best Reggae Album for Ziggy Marley’s Fly Rasta.
A Long Island native who got his start playing jazz trumpet, Andrew Scheps has mixed records for artists such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Adele, Metallica, Jay-Z, and many others. After graduating from the Recording Engineering Program at the University of Miami, he spent some time working for New England Digital as a field service technician for the Synclavier, one of the first digital synthesizers / samplers / workstations, then on the road with Stevie Wonder (as a keyboard tech) and Michael Jackson (mixing live sound), before settling in La.
Having got into mixing a few years before the analog-to-digital revolution, Andrew worked with a collection of vintage gear at his Punkerpad West studio in Van Nuys, California, including a Neve Electronics Bcm-10 with ten 1073s that were used for reference during the Waves Audio Scheps 73 plugin modeling process.
Scheps is known for his balanced, modern sounding, and often loud mixes. In July, 2015, while being interviewed on Pensado’s Place, he declared to work completely “Itb” (in the box), which stands for working completely inside a computer, without the use of external gear. His 100% transition to Itb mixing occurred halfway through mixing the Hozier record in the summer of 2014. “Going back into the box wasn’t a sonic decision, but I actually rediscovered that I really like it. It’s great to be able to work on three or four songs at the same time. I have not gone back to working on the desk since then. While I miss some of the visceral hands-on aspects of the console, there is a lot of creative freedom working this way. It might seem like a drastic change, but it is only the tools that have changed: remarkably my philosophy and sound have stayed the same.”
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Chris Lord-Alge (*1963) è un tecnico del suono statunitense.
È specializzato nel missaggio in studio. È il fratello di Tom Lord-Alge, anche lui tecnico del suono.
Chris e suo fratello Tom sono noti nell’industria musicale per l’utilizzo talvolta eccessivo del compressore – allo scopo di permettere alla loro musica di suonare più efficientemente attraverso altoparlanti di ridotte dimensioni e alla radio Fm ma anche contribuendo attivamente alla loudness war.
È diventato noto anche per aver collaborato con Howard Benson, che ha prodotto una relativa maggioranza degli albi che Lord-Alge ha missato.
Ha prestato servizio a numerosi artisti di fama internazionale come i Muse, Bon Jovi, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, gli Aerosmith, gli U2 e Cher.
Chris Lord-Alge ha guadagnato notorietà lavorando agli Unique Recording Studios di New York negli anni ottanta.
Al Schmitt (1930-2021) è stato un produttore discografico statunitense.
Cresciuto a New York, all’età di diciannove anni inizia a lavorare come produttore discografico presso gli Apex Recording Studios. Negli anni cinquanta lavora in radio a Los Angeles. Poi trova un impiego alla Rca Records e lavora come sound engineer per Henry Mancini, Cal Tjader, Al Hirt, Rosemary Clooney, Liverpool Five, Sam Cooke.
Nel 1966 diventa un produttore indipendente. Produce albi per i Jefferson Airplane, Eddie Ficher, Glenn Yarborough, Jackson Browne e Neil Young. A metà degli anni settanta registra e missa i lavori di numerosi artisti tra cui Willy DeVille e Dr. John.
Ha lavorato anche con Frank Sinatra (per Duets), Ray Charles (in Genius Loves Company) e Diana Krall.
Alla fine della sua carriera ha collaborato con Tommy LiPuma.
Nel corso della sua carriera ha registrato e missato oltre centocinquanta albi che sono stati riconosciuti come disco d’oro o disco di platino.
Ha vinto diciannove Grammy Awards, la maggior parte dei quali come ingegnere del suono e produttore discografico. Cinque di questi li ha vinti nel 2005 grazie al lavoro sul disco di Ray Charles Genius Loves Company.
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La Solid State Logic è una società britannica con sede a Begbroke – nell’Oxfordshire, in Inghilterra – che progetta e commercializza console di missaggio audio, processori di segnale e altre tecnologie audio per i settori della post-produzione, della produzione video, della trasmissione, dell’amplificazione del suono e della registrazione musicale. La Ssl impiega oltre centosessanta persone in tutto il mondo e ha uffici regionali a Los Angeles, Milano, New York City, Parigi e Tokyo, con ulteriore supporto fornito da una rete internazionale di distributori. La Ssl fa parte del Gruppo Audiotonix.
Tre errori – nel missaggio della fascia bassa – che uccidono i missaggi (perlomeno nella musica rock):
i) utilizzare il concatenamento laterale per la cassa e il basso;
ii) essere ossessionati dalle frequenze oltre le basse e ignorare le medio-basse;
iii) operare troppa scultura e separazione tra cassa e basso.
Dieci ottimi suggerimenti:
i) non diventare dipendente dall’assolo;
ii) scegli i tuoi diffusori acustici da studio con saggezza;
iii) calibra sempre le tue orecchie con gli ascolti di riferimento;
iv) non dimenticare il cursore;
v) lavora su più missaggi;
vi) evita tentativi ed errori ogni volta che è possibile, investendo nell’apprendimento;
vii) lascia il tuo ego alla porta;
viii) la gamma media è tutto;
ix) pensa all’attacco, non alla difesa;
x) trova dei professionisti, per masterizzare i tuoi missaggi.
09 June 2023
I haven’t composed any music since last July 25th.
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