Your favourite mixing engineer

[KungFuLio]

Bob Clearmountain - Lisa Loeb "Firecracker", Shawn Colvin "A Few Small Repairs"
Kevin Killen - k.d. Lang "Drag", Duncan Sheik "Daylight"
George Massenberg - Lyle Lovett "Joshua Judges Ruth"

[burst]

Originally Posted by six_wax

How about including your favorite example (record) of their work with your favorite mixers?

[Yes, you're just helping me build my reference mix library :]

Bob Clearmountain - Jonatha Brooke '10 Cent Wings'

Mark 'Spike' Stent - Massive Attack 'Mezzanine',

Just change '10 Cent Wings' to 'Steady Pull', and I'm good with these two.

[Musiclab]

Originally Posted by delcosmos

I agree, Ben Folds is one of my all time favorites, his "Rockin' the Suburbs" is great, mixed by Ben Grosse, but definetly "Songs for silverman" and the "Over the hedge" album has the MB style printed.

Obviously I'm a big time fan of, Mike Shipley, AW, CLA, TLA, BC, MG, JJP and "Spike" Stent.. and Geoff Emerick.

Best regards.

Armando Avila

P.S. I also love the mixes by Mr. John Paterno on "Soraya" album.

Hey Armando are you talking about her english language album? It's a real shame about her

[mixman499]

Originally Posted by pigpen

what this guy said

A guy I have not really seen his name on this board that did some albums in the late 90's, early 2000 that I really dug was Malcolm Springer. He rawks.

malcolm is a buddy of mine...he does rawk !!!!

he has been busy of late working with alot of up and coming indie bands..

i am sure he would get a kick out of being mentioned here.

my personal list of favorite mixers would be.

brendan o'brien
jack joseph puig
ethan johns
ken andrews
andy wallace
bob clearmountain
paul david hager (who used to work with malcolm alot..now does alot with butch walker)
tchad blake
michael brauer (his granddaddy mixes are unreal)
machine
dave botrill
michael wagner

[Don Srygley]

[quote=Steve MacMillan;1057170]Thanks, that made my day. Especially being mentioned along side Jack.


Hey Stevie Mac! I'm glad I could make your day. You sure made mine when I put on that Seal ll cd about 16 or so years ago! I can't believe it's been that long. It's always been a benchmark for me. Just beautiful! I'm still trying to catch up to it.

[liferdrums]

Terry Date - Incubus "Science"

Jacob Hansen - Mercenary "The Hours that Remain"

Tue Madsen - Mnemic "The Audio Injected Soul"

Toby Wright - Alice In Chains "ST"

[delcosmos]

Originally Posted by Musiclab

Hey Armando are you talking about her english language album? It's a real shame about her

No, I'm talking about his Spanish album "Soraya" mixed by JP and they also won a Latin Grammy for that record.
I recorded Soraya on 2004 and I remember that she told me a lot about John Paterno, she loved his work.

Best regards.

Armando Avila

[tamasdragon]

Elliot Scheiner
Frank Filipetti
George Massenburg
Erik Schilling
Al Schmitt
Bruce Swedien
etc
etc

[Greg Wells]

Spike Stent doth rule.

Alan Moulder doesn't exactly suck.

Terry Date's mixes on "Adrenaline" and "White Pony" are irrefutably amazing.

For radio, no one on earth beats Chris Lord Alge.

Steve MacMillan's mixes on the Seal records are incredible.

Neil Avron is pretty wicked. Kevin Killen's great.

[Jules]

I am pleased to see that we have already had some of your favorites as special guests for Q & A sessions and several have become active members here.

If you want Gearslutz.com to ask your favorite mixing engineer to do an on-line Q & A session, here's what to do to help make it happen.

Track down the management company that looks after them, and PM me the email details (don't post the info out on the forum)

I can take it from there..

[Larrysings]

Originally Posted by 2db

Steve Remote 5 stars

Malcolm Pollack

Who?



Isn't it cool to have another world class engineer as a moderator?
I hope that's not 5 out of 10 stars.
I'd give him a 9.75 for technical merit. 4.5 for his dance steps.
Yes he is one of the elite.

[ttauri]

Tom Moulton

Peece,
T. Tauri

[H-Rezz]

Hummmm.......

I like pretty much everybody that was mentioned .....

Start from .....

Bob Clearmountain
Mick Gazauski
Bruce Swedien
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CLA an TLA
Dexter Simmons
Pensado
Serban Ghenea
Manny Marroquin

[e-cue]

#1 Dave Pensado

then

Andy Wallace
Bob Power
Dexter Simmons

then

Jon Gass
Jean Marie Horvat
Dave McNair

for Surround

Brant Biles
Robert Margouleff

[steins]

One more for Mick Guzauski...his work is amazing.

Stein Tore

[Samplecraze]

Quincy Jones
Trevor Horn

[mattssons]

No particular order

Bob Clearmountain
Dave Pensado
Tony Maserati
Lord - Alges
"Spike" Stent
Steve Lillywhite
Kevin Killen
Phil Tan


/Toby

[pigpen]

Originally Posted by mixman499

malcolm is a buddy of mine...he does rawk !!!!

he has been busy of late working with alot of up and coming indie bands..

i am sure he would get a kick out of being mentioned here.

my personal list of favorite mixers would be.

brendan o'brien
jack joseph puig
ethan johns
ken andrews
andy wallace
bob clearmountain
paul david hager (who used to work with malcolm alot..now does alot with butch walker)
tchad blake
michael brauer (his granddaddy mixes are unreal)
machine
dave botrill
michael wagner

dood I am so pm'ing you to hear some of those bands!

[Coolstuff]

I had the honor of spending several years with Steve Remote aka Remoteness in his early days. It was an great experience learning with him and from him (and I taught him everything I knew!)

Definitely one of the best engineers around. Just look at his client list

Marty Atias
ATS Communications

[six_wax]

Really appreciate all the folks who are listing examples... Amazon Prime is draining my wallet and rushing them to my door...

[picksail]

Originally Posted by Samplecraze

Quincy Jones
Trevor Horn

Interesting...

[The Reel Thing]

I do have to name here Mr Jim Scott, who was only once shortly mentioned for co-mixing 'Car Wheels On A Gravel Road' with Rick Rubin, which, in fact, is great work. But mentioning that album only might lead to wrong conclusions, mind you, we're talking about the man who mixed 'Californication' and 'By The Way' for the Chilli Peppers as well as 'One By One' for Foo Fighters, two really great REEF albums, a couple of songs on the last Nikka Costa album, and a whole lot more great stuff once you start reading the album covers.

Another man I would like to mention is Dave Sardy. I really like his work on the last JET as well as WOLFMOTHER.

[NickH]

Eric Rachel keeps turning my head...

He just keeps getting better & better...

Twelve Tribes - The Rebirth of Tragedy is a good example...

N

[Absolute]

IMO Hard rock is the hardest to mix record and mix


Randy Staub
the absolute king of Modern rhythm guitar sounds

Kevin Shirley

Also a mention to The greatest guitar sound ever put to tape was early Van Halen. Don Lendee --Ted Templeman get kudos for this one achievement in history. Eddie used that marshall on other albums with other guys at the helm but never got that sound again.

Dont take offence..this is just my view:
I give Pop mixers no votes. I am dumbfounded by the praise of pop mixes. Drum, bass, and guitar sounds are everything in a Rock mix or you've got nothing. You can use anything in Pop because the instruments dont even matter. I know some engineers drool over Michael Jackson but the listening public doesnt even hear the instruments in those mixes nor do they even care. Not so in rock. Im not saying they are not hyper talented but if they cant do the Black Album, or Staubs sick guitar, bass and drum, if they havnt killed in Rock --then they're not a blackbelt yet IMO. 3 instruments is harder than 60 little jangely sequenced tracks that no average pop listener even gives a second thought about. Go ahead punch me...but the Jedi are those who unleash the power in Rock.(thats why there are so few truly great rock mixes)

On the other end--Movie score mixers are top notch too.

Andy Johns--yummy drums

guys who transcend genre's --Wallace and Michael Brauer

and so many others.

[theRog]

Bob Clearmountain and Calum Malcolm

so cool to know them personally ;-)

[MikeK]

ron st. germain
bill bottrell
jerry finn
rothrock/schnapf
nigel godrich
alan moulder
mark stent

[DirkB]

Number one without any competition: AW the main man himself.

Greetings,
Dirk

P.S. I like rock music

[Zwinter]

Originally Posted by The Reel Thing

I do have to name here Mr Jim Scott, who was only once shortly mentioned for co-mixing 'Car Wheels On A Gravel Road' with Rick Rubin, which, in fact, is great work. But mentioning that album only might lead to wrong conclusions, mind you, we're talking about the man who mixed 'Californication' and 'By The Way' for the Chilli Peppers as well as 'One By One' for Foo Fighters, two really great REEF albums, a couple of songs on the last Nikka Costa album, and a whole lot more great stuff once you start reading the album covers.

Another man I would like to mention is Dave Sardy. I really like his work on the last JET as well as WOLFMOTHER.

I don't think I would mention that Chilli Peppers album (which sounds overly compressed to my ears, although that could have been done in mastering); I would mention the fact that Jom Scott engineered Tom Petty's Wildflowers album.

[studjo]

Originally Posted by Zwinter

I don't think I would mention that Chilli Peppers album (which sounds overly compressed to my ears, although that could have been done in mastering); I would mention the fact that Jom Scott engineered Tom Petty's Wildflowers album.

Totally agree on both points!



Jo

[Matt Smith]

Andy Sneap and Randy Staub.

Matt