Tony Dawsey is an American mastering engineer at

Masterdisk Masterdisk is an American multimedia company in New York, located at 8 John Walsh Boulevard in Peekskill. They provide production services such as audio mastering, vinyl cutting and enhanced CD and DVD production. Their clients include such no ...

in New York City. He has been active since 1980.Tony Dawsey bio
Masterdisk.com. Accessed December 23, 2022. His credits include artists such as

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, Akon, Whitney Houston,

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, Gang Starr, Redman, Ghostface Killah,

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, J. ( Jaye Muller), Ronny Jordan, and King's X. Dawsey grew up in Spanish Harlem in New York City. He got a job at

in the mail room and making cassettes in 1980. While at Masterdisk, he learned to be a

mastering engineer A mastering engineer is a person skilled in the practice of taking audio (typically musical content) that has been previously mixed in either the analog or digital domain as mono, stereo, or multichannel formats and preparing it for use in distr ...

and has since been an extremely notable mastering engineer in the industry, particularly well known for his work with Hip-Hop."De-mystifying the mastering process with hip-hop's favorite sound wizard"
redbullmusicacademy.com. Accessed December 23, 2022. He mastered his first #1, multi-platinum album in 1987, which was the soundtrack to the film ''La Bamba''.

References

American hip hop record producers Living people Mastering engineers Year of birth missing (living people)

External links

Tony Dawsey interview at the Red Bull Music Academy (2004)
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