Andy Jackson is a British recording engineer, best known for his work with the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd. He was (until 2022) also the owner and operator of Tube Mastering, a private studio specializing in recorded music mastering.

Career

Originally trained in the profession at Utopia Studios, Jackson began work as an engineer for Pink Floyd in 1980, assisting in the recording of the performances of ''The Wall'' at

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. He then worked on the film soundtrack recordings for ''

Pink Floyd – The Wall ''Pink Floyd – The Wall'' is a 1982 British live-action/animated psychological musical drama film directed by Alan Parker, based on Pink Floyd's 1979 album of the same name. The screenplay was written by Pink Floyd vocalist and bassist Rog ...

'' and the studio album '' The Final Cut''. Jackson became the band's primary engineer beginning with ''

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'' and then ''

The Division Bell ''The Division Bell'' is the fourteenth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 28 March 1994 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and on 4 April by Columbia Records in the United States. The second Pink Flo ...

'' plus the material recorded for the soundtrack to the band's 1992 auto racing documentary film ''

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''. He was also the Front of House engineer on the band's 1994 world tour. He was producer of Pink Floyd's final studio album ''

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''. His current primary responsibility is as the Senior Engineer for David Gilmour's studios, Astoria and Medina, and has worked on all of Gilmour's recordings/multimedia projects as an engineer and/or co-producer since 1984. He was also the engineer on Roger Waters' first solo album, ''

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'', and worked Front of House on Waters' 1984 tour. Jackson (in collaboration with engineer Damon Iddins) has remastered the majority of the bonus features material on the Immersion editions of ''

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'' and ''

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'' for the '' Why Pink Floyd...?'' reissue campaign, and the 2016 box set ''

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''. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Jackson has also worked with artists such as

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, Strawbs,

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(most notably mixed their hit "

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") and goth rock group

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, and recorded a solo album, ''Obvious'', which was released in 2001. He was also a guitar player in the live band version of

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for four years. Two further solo albums followed, ''Signal to Noise'' in 2014 and ''73 Days at Sea'' the following year. Very recently closed his own company, Tube Mastering.

Awards

*Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Recording - Non-Classical, Pink Floyd’s ''

'', 1988. *Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Album - Non-Classical, Pink Floyd’s ''

'', 1995. *Grammy nomination for Best Surround Sound Album, Pink Floyd’s ''

'', 2014.

References

External links

Tube Mastering
*
Interview with "Floydian Slip" host Craig Bailey, December 2000

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