Kimberly A. Rosen (née Dumas; born ) is an American

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-nominated audio mastering engineer. Since 2009, she owns and runs a mastering studio in

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. With an interest in pursuing a career in the music industry, she began an internship at West West Side Music in

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. There, she assisted chief mastering engineer Alan Douches from 2002 through 2009. While assisting at West West Side Music, Rosen began taking on her own mastering projects and was promoted to staff mastering engineer in 2004. As a mastering engineer at West West Side Music, Rosen mastered a wide range of projects for artists such as

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, and

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. In 2009, Rosen started her audio mastering studio, Knack Mastering, in

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, the PotLuck Audio Conference (Tucson, Arizona), and the Welcome to 1979 Recording Summit (Nashville, Tennessee). In October 2017, Rosen and her husband Dave launched Whitestone Audio Instruments, a company that designs and produces professional analog processing equipment for audio engineers. Their first product, the P331 Tube Loading Amplifier, was unveiled at the 2018

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in Anaheim, CA. Rosen is an active member and was elected as a Governor of the New York Chapter of the

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(Grammys) in 2018.

Work

Kimberly Rosen works both for independent artists and labels and major label record companies and producers. Her most notable releases include works of

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, and Title Fight. In 2014, she worked on the remake of the

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album ''

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'', published by

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, with the participation of

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and

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. In 2015, she mastered the rearrangement of "Forever Young", theme of the television series ''Parenthood'', performed by

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and

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for its series finale. Rosen was nominated for Best Engineered album (non-classical) for Bonnie Raitt's ''

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'' (2016) and Milk Carton Kids' '' All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do'' (2018). Several albums mastered by Kimberly Rosen have received Grammy Award nominations as well as wins. The

album "Just Like That" received four nominations and three wins, including the

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(2023). Aimee Mann's ''

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'' (2017) won the

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Grammy; as did the

album "They're Calling Me Home" (2022).

Grammy nominations and awards

Selected discography

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosen, Kim Year of birth uncertain Place of birth missing (living people) Living people Mastering engineers American audio engineers Women audio engineers People from Northampton, Massachusetts People from Ringwood, New Jersey 1980s births