Bernie Grundman is an American
audio engineer
An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, ...
.
He is most known for his
mastering work and his studio, Bernie Grundman Mastering, which he opened in 1984 in Hollywood. The studio, which includes engineers Chris Bellman, Patricia Sullivan, and
Mike Bozzi
Mike Bozzi is an American mastering engineer at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood, California. He won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year for mastering Childish Gambino's " This Is America", and is a six-time nominee for the Grammy Awa ...
, mastered 37 projects which received
Grammy Award
The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pres ...
nominations in 2005. In 1997 he opened a studio in Tokyo.
Grundman and his studio have both won numerous
TEC Awards The TEC Awards is an annual program recognizing the achievements of audio professionals. The awards are given to honor technically innovative products as well as companies and individuals who have excelled in sound for television, film, recordings, ...
, including Best Mastering Facility and several production awards.
Previously, Grundman worked at Contemporary Records
Contemporary Records was a jazz record company and label founded by Lester Koenig in Los Angeles in 1951. Contemporary produced music from a variety of jazz styles and players.
West Coast players
Contemporary became identified with a style of j ...
and then was head of the A&M Records
A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962. Due to the success of the discography A&M released, the label garnered interest and was acquired by PolyGram in 1989 and began distr ...
mastering department in Los Angeles. Now his studio also has been established in Tokyo, Japan with engineer Yasuji Maeda.
Select works
List is not complete.
See also
*Airwolf Themes
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References
External links
Official site
Mix magazine article on Grundman studio
ProSoundNews article on 2005 Grammy nominations
Palisadian-Post Interview
Interview with Bernie Grundman - NAMM Oral History Library (2011)
American audio engineers
Grammy Award winners
Living people
Mastering engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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