Your Favorite Audio Engineers

[musicfirst1]

Stan Ricker, Steve Wilson, Steve Hoffman, Kevin Gray, Bob Ludwig come to mind.

What are yours?

 

[Abbinormal]

Robert Fine

 

[Joe Whip]

Jim Anderson comes to mind, not just for his work with Patricia Barber but with Benny Green and many, many others.

 

[amadeus]

Rudy Van Gelder Rudy Van Gelder Rudy Van Gelder

 

[microstrip]

Rudy Van Gelder Rudy Van Gelder Rudy Van Gelder

I appreciate a lot many of his recordings - I have been listening to Out to Lunch a few days ago in the Soundlab´s - but he is one of the more debated recording engineers in forums - and not just for his endorsement of the digital media!

 

[MikeHorns]

Stan Ricker, Steve Wilson, Steve Hoffman, Kevin Gray, Bob Ludwig come to mind.

What are yours?

I'm sorry to say, none of these guys are recording engineers.

 

[musicfirst1]

I'm sorry to say, none of these guys are recording engineers.

Some are, hoever, point clarified

 

[Mikem53]

Robert Carranza, recording engineer for Jack Johnson. Don’t know his other works, but I looked Him up after hearing a few of JJ albums. Great sounding recordings, IMO.

I always thought the original “West Side Story” with Leonard Bernstein, was a great recording effort, don’t know the names of the recording engineers.

Frank Sinatra, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles used Al Schmitt who was considered one of the best non classical recording engineers back in the day.

 

[Klonk]

Joe Gastwirt

 

[dcathro]

add Al schmidt and Bob Clearmountain

 

[dschondo]

I appreciate a lot many of his recordings - I have been listening to Out to Lunch a few days ago in the Soundlab´s - but he is one of the more debated recording engineers in forums - and not just for his endorsement of the digital media!

Same here. I think he has recorded some of the most incredible music of the 1960s establishing an emblematic sound. Part of this sound is a rather unnatural sounding piano. I loved that sound at first – I got to know the music of that era through his recordings and this sound was the sound of the era for me. By now I wish I could hear some of this music with a more natural sounding piano.