Howie Weinberg is a music mastering engineer who has worked with numerous bands.[1]
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Career
He has worked at Masterdisk, New York City, since 1977. Weinberg was responsible for the mastering of several Bill Laswell related releases, such as Herbie Hancock's Grammy Award winning album Future Shock (including the hit single "Rockit"), Brain Drain by the Ramones, Material's Memory Serves and Buckethead's debut album Bucketheadland. Other notable works include the Beastie Boys' License to Ill and the multi-platinum Nevermind by Nirvana.
Once Andy Wallace had finished his mix of Nevermind, the master tapes were forwarded to Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk Studios in New York City. "I'm sort of a goal tender in the creative process," says Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk Studios in New York. "I'm the last stop to make it better before pressing." While many of the principals who worked on Nevermind where novices when it came to major-label albums - the band in particular - Weinberg was a well-known veteran who had mastered many of the greatest albums of the modern rock era.[2]
Weinberg also worked with Tom Waits, The Mars Volta, Spoon, Public Enemy, Rammstein, Aerosmith,[3] and The White Stripes. Dimebag Darrell of Pantera fame is quoted as saying:
When you get to mastering you've got to find the magic mix that works once it goes through all the compression and EQing. We worked with Howie Weinberg and he's a fantabulous motherfucker.[4]
He appeared at the 2009 SXSW on the Panel: Producers On Making Classic Records.[5]
Awards
He has been nominated for the Mix Foundation's Technical Excellence & Creativity award for mastering engineer in 1997,[6] was part of two of the winners in 2003 (best track with Sheryl Crow's "Soak up the sun"; best record for Sheryl Crow's "C'mon, C'mon"),[7] and was part of the winners for best track in 2006 with Gorillaz' "Feel Good, Inc".[8]
Personal life
Howie Weinberg married Rachel Felder, the director of artists and repertory at Columbia Records in July 1999.[9]
Discography (partial)
If not stated otherwise, Howie Weinberg received credits for mastering
- 3 Colours Red (The Union of Souls - 2004)
- Aerosmith (Done with Mirrors - 1985)
- Apoptygma Berzerk (Rocket Science - 2009)
- Arrested Development (3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of... - 1992)
- Beastie Boys (Licensed to Ill - 1986)
- Beatsteaks (Launched - 1999)
- Ben Folds Five (Whatever and Ever Amen - 1997)
- Buckethead (Bucketheadland - 1992)
- Camper Van Beethoven (Key Lime Pie - 1989)
- The Clash (Cut The Crap - 1985)
- Billy Corgan (TheFutureEmbrace - 2005)
- CKY (Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild - 2002, An Answer Can Be Found - 2005, Carver City - 2009)
- Creed (My Own Prison - 1997)
- Damageplan (New Found Power - 2004)
- Danzig (Danzig - 1988)
- Deftones (White Pony - 2000, Saturday Night Wrist - 2006)
- Disturbed (Believe) - 2002)
- The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy (Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury - 1992)
- Dream Theater (When Dream and Day Unite - 1989, Train Of Thought - 2003, Live at Budokan - 2004)
- Faith No More (Album of the Year - 1997)
- Fear of Pop (Fear of Pop: Volume 1 - 1998)
- Franz Ferdinand (You Could Have It So Much Better - 2005)
- Garbage (Garbage - 1995, Version 2.0 - 1998)
- Gizmachi (The Imbuing - 2005)
- Helmet (Meantime - 1992)
- Iron Maiden (The Essential Iron Maiden - 2005)
- Jeff Buckley (Grace - 1994)
- Kittie (Spit - 2000)
- Kyuss (Blues for the Red Sun - 1992)
- L'Arc~en~Ciel (SMILE - 2004, AWAKE - 2005, KISS - 2007)
- Less Than Jake (GNV FLA - 2008)
- Limp Bizkit (Three Dollar Bill, Yall$ - 1997)
- The Mescaleros (Streetcore - 2003)
- The Mint Chicks (Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! - 2006)
- Modest Mouse (We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank - 2007)
- Muse (Black Holes and Revelations - 2006)
- Nirvana (Nevermind - 1991)
- Pantera (Cowboys From Hell - 1990, Vulgar Display of Power - 1992, Reinventing the Steel - 2000)
- Pray for the Soul of Betty (Pray for the Soul of Betty - 2005)
- Public Enemy (Fear of a Black Planet - 1990)
- Pyogenesis (Unpop - 1997)
- Rammstein (Mutter - 2001, Reise, Reise - 2004, Rosenrot - 2005)
- Ramones (Brain Drain - 1989, Loco Live - 1991)
- Rush (Vapor Trails - 2002)
- Rancid (...And Out Come the Wolves - 1995)
- Reuben (In Nothing We Trust - 2007)
- Sepultura (Arise - 1991)
- Sevendust (Sevendust - 1997)
- Sheryl Crow (C'mon C'mon - 2002)
- Skunk Anansie (Stoosh - 1996, Post Orgasmic Chill - 1999)
- Slayer (Reign in Blood - 1986, South of Heaven - 1988, Seasons in the Abyss - 1990, Diabolus in Musica - 1998)
- Smashing Pumpkins (Gish - 1991, Siamese Dream - 1993, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - 1995, Adore - 1998, Machina/The Machines of God - 2000)
- Sonic Youth (Daydream Nation - 1988)
- Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger - 1991, A-Sides - 1997)
- Staind (Dysfunction - 1999)
- The Swear (Every Trick's a Good One - 2005)
- U2 (Pop - 1997)
- Ween (Pure Guava - 1992, Chocolate and Cheese - 1994)
- Zwan (Mary Star of the Sea - 2003)
- Disagree (To Prevent The Earth From Moving With You - 2009)
His official Masterdisk discography[10] is available from Masterdisk's website.
References
- ^ Spy’s the limit, November 2007
- ^ Berkenstadt, Jim; Charles R. Cross (2004). Nevermind. Music Sales Group. pp. 101–102. ISBN 9780825672866.
- ^ Power, Martin; Chris Charlesworth (1997). The Complete Guide to the Music of Aerosmith. Omnibus Press. pp. 73. ISBN 9780711955981.
- ^ Kitts, Jeff (2002). Guitar World Presents Nu-Metal. Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. pp. 35. ISBN 9780634032875.
- ^ http://www.sxsw.com/music/talks/schedule/?action=bio&id=16515
- ^ "1997 TEC Awards winners". http://www.mixfoundation.org/tec/1997.html. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
- ^ "2003 WINNERS FOR OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT". http://www.mixfoundation.org/tec/03winners.html. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
- ^ "2006 TEC Awards Winners". http://www.mixfoundation.org/tec/06winners.html. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
- ^ "WEDDINGS; Rachel Felder, Howie Weinberg". The New York Times. July 18, 1999. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/18/style/weddings-rachel-felder-howie-weinberg.html?sec=&spon=.
- ^ "Howie Weinberg's Discography". http://www.masterdisk.com/engineers/engineer.php?id=26&page=d. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
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