Leon Zervos is a
mastering engineer who has worked with many world-renowned artists, including
Pink
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,
Rihanna,
Maroon 5
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,
Beastie Boys
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, and
Willie Nelson
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.
Life and career
Leon Zervos began his mastering career in 1982 at the then
EMI Studios 301 in
Sydney
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, where he worked with the likes of
INXS,
Crowded House, and
Midnight Oil. Moving to
New York City
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in 1992, he worked mastering for Absolute Audio for six years, before taking on the role of Senior mastering engineer at
Masterdisk in 1993, where he added artists such as
Aerosmith,
Mobb Deep,
Maroon 5
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,
Avril Lavigne
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,
Gavin DeGraw,
Duran Duran,
Ben Folds and
NSYNC to his mastering portfolio, with some of the music he mastered going on to win GRAMMY Awards. Zervos left Masterdisk in 2003, becoming senior mastering engineer at Sterling Sound in
New York City
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, until 2009 when he returned to
Sydney
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.
Leon Zervos currently works as a mastering engineer at
Studios 301 in
Sydney
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,
Australia
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. He works with a wide variety of genres, including pop, jazz, country, metal, R&B, dance, and orchestral, boasting Platinum selling credits in each category.
Credits
''Leon Zervos is credited as the
Mastering engineer on all of the following recordings''
References
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Australian audio engineers
Living people
Mastering engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)