Reinhold Mack

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Reinhold Mack , known as "Mack" , (born August 25 ) is a German music producer . He was the sound engineer of numerous albums by Queen and Electric Light Orchestra recorded in the Munich Musicland Studios .

Career

Reinhold Mack, who was looking for a new job after completing his military service in the Bundeswehr, moved to Munich in the early 1970s. Assuming that he could simply start in a studio, learn everything there was to know and then possibly be able to replace a newly orientated employee, he searched the Munich telephone directory for suitable studios and turned into a performance in the Union Studio in the Solln district invited. He got the job as a sound engineer and initially mainly produced elevator music . He developed a particularly effective way of working, which quickly got around and caught the attention of Giorgio Moroder , who turned him off and founded Musicland Studios with him.

Mack's collaboration with Queen began in June 1979 when the band Crazy Little Thing recorded Called Love . The group subsequently embarked on new recording techniques, which is expressed, for example, in the production of Another One Bites the Dust , one of Queen's most successful singles. Mack attaches particular importance to the album Hot Space because it was ahead of its time in terms of production technology and style. Other well-known songs produced together with the band include Radio Ga Ga and I Want to Break Free as well as Princes of the Universe , the opening song of the film Highlander . Up to and including 1986, Mack produced a total of five Queen studio albums with the band members.

He also produced Freddie Mercury's 1985 solo album Mr. Bad Guy . In 1992, Mack was critical of posthumous remixes that - instead of the original versions - were published on the compilation The Freddie Mercury Album .

Discography (selection)

As (co-) producer:

As a sound engineer:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Producer Mack about his time with Queen, Led Zeppelin, BAP and Co., Sound and Recording, accessed January 5, 2020
  2. ^ Mack: “'Another One Bites the Dust', for instance, is built on a drum loop . There was the main riff and a bunch of backwards piano notes, cymbal crashes and claps, some guitar fragments. [...] The idea was less is more, and it worked pretty well. The band would have never contemplated going about recording in this manner, ever. " - iZotope interview with Mack .
  3. ^ Mack on Hot Space : “It was about nine months ahead of its time. Very underrated, really hi tech. Hardly anybody played on it in real time. [It was] still all analogue. A commendable effort. Quite a few things were modeled after some of the stylistics of Hotspace tracks. " - iZotope interview with Mack .
  4. ↑ Musikexpress / Sounds .
personal data
SURNAME Mack, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 25 before 1960