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{{short description|American audio engineer}}
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'''Bernie Grundman''' (born 16 December 1943, Minneapolis) is an American [[audio engineering|audio engineer]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-05 |title=Luxury vinyl? Legendary engineer Bernie Grundman on Craft’s Small Batch series |url=https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/lifestyle/leisure/article/3240220/when-does-vinyl-really-sound-better-cds-bernie-grundman-mastering-crafts-small-batch-jazz-series |access-date=2024-02-26 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en}}</ref>
'''Bernie Grundman''' is an American [[audio engineering|audio engineer]].


He is most known for his [[audio mastering|mastering]] work and his studio, Bernie Grundman Mastering, which he opened in 1983 in Hollywood. The studio, which includes engineers Chris Bellman, Patricia Sullivan, and [[Mike Bozzi]], mastered 37 projects which received [[Grammy Award]] nominations in 2005. In 1997 he opened a studio in Tokyo.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Verna|first=Pauly|date=20 September 1997|title=Gundman opens Tokyo studio|journal=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|page=41|issn=0006-2510|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CQoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA42&dq=Bernie+Grundman&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMI64Sq-IexyAIVhjU-Ch0wBQHd#v=onepage&q=Bernie%20Grundman&f=false|accessdate=7 October 2015}}</ref>
He is most known for his [[audio mastering|mastering]] work and his studio, '''Bernie Grundman Mastering''', which he opened in 1984 in Hollywood. The studio, which includes engineers Chris Bellman, Patricia Sullivan, and [[Mike Bozzi]], mastered 37 projects which received [[Grammy Award]] nominations in 2005. In 1997 he opened a studio in Tokyo.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Verna|first=Pauly|date=20 September 1997|title=Gundman opens Tokyo studio|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|page=41|issn=0006-2510|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CQoEAAAAMBAJ&q=Bernie+Grundman&pg=PA42|access-date=7 October 2015}}</ref>


Grundman and his studio have both won numerous [[TEC Awards]], including Best Mastering Facility and several production awards.<ref>[http://www.mixfoundation.org/tec/past_winners.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070506115023/http://www.mixfoundation.org/tec/past_winners.html|date=May 6, 2007}}</ref>
Grundman and his studio have both won numerous [[TEC Awards]], including Best Mastering Facility and several production awards.<ref>[http://www.mixfoundation.org/tec/past_winners.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070506115023/http://www.mixfoundation.org/tec/past_winners.html|date=May 6, 2007}}</ref>


Previously, Grundman worked at [[Contemporary Records]] and then was head of the [[A&M Records]] mastering department in Los Angeles. Now his studio also has been established in Tokyo, Japan with engineer Yasuji Maeda.
Previously, Grundman worked for [[Lester Koenig]] at [[Contemporary Records]] and then was head of the [[A&M Records]] mastering department in Los Angeles. Now his studio also has been established in Tokyo, Japan with engineer Yasuji Maeda.


== Select works ==
== Select works ==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
!scope="col"| Title
!scope="col"| Year
!scope="col"| Artist

|-
|-
!scope=row| ''[[Head to the Sky]]''
!scope=row| ''[[Head to the Sky]]''
|style="text-align:center;"|1973
|style="text-align:center;"|1973
|style="text-align:right;"|[[Earth, Wind & Fire]]
|style="text-align:right;"|[[Earth, Wind & Fire]]
|-
!scope=row| ''[[Horizon (The Carpenters album)|Horizon]]''
|style="text-align:center;"|1974
|style="text-align:right;"|[[The Carpenters|Carpenters]]
|-
|-
!scope=row| ''[[Band Wagon (album)|Band Wagon]]''
!scope=row| ''[[Band Wagon (album)|Band Wagon]]''
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|style="text-align:center;"|1977
|style="text-align:center;"|1977
|style="text-align:right;"|[[Steely Dan]]
|style="text-align:right;"|[[Steely Dan]]
|-
!scope=row| ''[[Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture]]''
|style="text-align:center;"|1978
|style="text-align:right;"| Various Artists
|-
!scope=row| ''[[Shadows and Light (Joni Mitchell album)|Shadows and Light]]''
|style="text-align:center;"|1980
|style="text-align:right;"| [[Joni Mitchell]]
|-
|-
!scope=row| ''[[Dirty Mind]]''
!scope=row| ''[[Dirty Mind]]''
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!scope=row| ''[[Lovesexy]]''
!scope=row| ''[[Lovesexy]]''
|style="text-align:center;"|1988
|style="text-align:center;"|1988
|style="text-align:right;"|Prince
|style="text-align:right;"|[[Prince (musician)|Prince]]
|-
|-
!scope=row| ''[[Moment of Truth (Terri Nunn album)|Moment of Truth]]''
!scope=row| ''[[Moment of Truth (Terri Nunn album)|Moment of Truth]]''
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|style="text-align:center;"|1997
|style="text-align:center;"|1997
|style="text-align:right;"|[[Rata Blanca]]
|style="text-align:right;"|[[Rata Blanca]]
|-
!scope=row| ''Como Te Recuerdo''
|style="text-align:center;"|1998
|style="text-align:right;"|[[Los Temerarios]]
|-
!scope=row| ''[[The Charlie Brown Suite & Other Favorites]]''
|style="text-align:center;"|2003
|style="text-align:right;"|[[Vince Guaraldi]]
|-
|-
!scope=row| ''[[Speakerboxxx/The Love Below]]''
!scope=row| ''[[Speakerboxxx/The Love Below]]''
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|style="text-align:right;"|[[Lisa Stansfield]]
|style="text-align:right;"|[[Lisa Stansfield]]
|-
|-
!scope=row| ''In My Room''
!scope=row| ''[[In My Room (album)|In My Room]]''
|style="text-align:center;"|2016
|style="text-align:center;"|2016
|style="text-align:right;"|[[Jacob Collier]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ginalovesjazz.com/new-releases-check-2/|title=Jacob Collier - In My Room - ginalovesjazz.com - the jazz magazine by matthias kirsch|date=27 July 2016|publisher=}}</ref>
|style="text-align:right;"|[[Jacob Collier]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ginalovesjazz.com/new-releases-check-2/|title=Jacob Collier - In My Room - ginalovesjazz.com - the jazz magazine by matthias kirsch|date=27 July 2016}}</ref>
|-
|-
!scope=row| ''[[The Empyrean]] (10th Anniversary Re-Issue)''
!scope=row| ''[[Ultraelectromagneticpop!]]'' (25th Anniversary reissue)
|style="text-align:center;"|2018
|style="text-align:right;"|[[Eraserheads]]
|-
!scope=row| ''[[The Empyrean]]'' (10th Anniversary Re-Issue)
|style="text-align:center;"|2019
|style="text-align:center;"|2019
|style="text-align:right;"|[[John Frusciante]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://record-collection-store.myshopify.com/products/john-frusciante-the-empyrean-10-year-anniversary-vinyl?variant=24274079350848/ |title=John Frusciante 10th Anniversary of The Empyrean}}</ref>
|style="text-align:right;"|[[John Frusciante]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://record-collection-store.myshopify.com/products/john-frusciante-the-empyrean-10-year-anniversary-vinyl?variant=24274079350848/ |title=John Frusciante 10th Anniversary of The Empyrean}}</ref>
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!scope=row| ''[[1999 (Prince album)|1999]]'' (2019 Remaster, Deluxe Edition, and Super Deluxe Edition)
!scope=row| ''[[1999 (Prince album)|1999]]'' (2019 Remaster, Deluxe Edition, and Super Deluxe Edition)
|style="text-align:center;"|2019
|style="text-align:center;"|2019
|style="text-align:right;"|Prince<ref>{{cite web|url=https://afropunk.com/2019/09/princes-1999-remastered-and-re-released-with-dozens-of-unheard-tracks/ |title=Prince's '1999' Remastered and Re-Released with Dozens of Unheard Tracks}}</ref>
|style="text-align:right;"|[[Prince (musician)|Prince]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://afropunk.com/2019/09/princes-1999-remastered-and-re-released-with-dozens-of-unheard-tracks/ |title=Prince's '1999' Remastered and Re-Released with Dozens of Unheard Tracks|date=11 September 2019}}</ref>
|-
|-
!scope=row| ''[[Making a Door Less Open]]''
!scope=row| ''[[Making a Door Less Open]]''
|style="text-align:center;"|2020
|style="text-align:center;"|2020
|style="text-align:right;"|[[Car Seat Headrest]]
|style="text-align:right;"|[[Car Seat Headrest]]
|-
!scope=row| ''[[Unlimited Love]]''
|style="text-align:center;"|2022
|style="text-align:right;"|[[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]
|-
|-
|}
|}
List is not complete.
List is not complete.


==See also==
*[[Airwolf Themes]]


==References==
==References==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060408153507/http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_bernie_grundman_mastering/ Mix magazine article on Grundman studio]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060408153507/http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_bernie_grundman_mastering/ Mix magazine article on Grundman studio]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061120233335/http://prosoundnews.com/articles/article_1422.shtml ProSoundNews article on 2005 Grammy nominations]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061120233335/http://prosoundnews.com/articles/article_1422.shtml ProSoundNews article on 2005 Grammy nominations]
* [http://www.palisadespost.com/content/index.cfm?Story_ID=4425=Recent Palisadian-Post Interview]
* [http://www.palisadespost.com/content/index.cfm?Story_ID=4425=Recent Palisadian-Post Interview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716135237/http://www.palisadespost.com/content/index.cfm?Story_ID=4425=Recent |date=2011-07-16 }}
*[https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/bernie-grundman Interview with Bernie Grundman - NAMM Oral History Library (2011)]
*[https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/bernie-grundman Bernie Grundman Interview] at [[NAMM Oral History Program|NAMM Oral History Collection]] (2011)


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[[Category:Mastering engineers]]
[[Category:Mastering engineers]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]
[[Category:1943 births]]




Revision as of 08:47, 26 February 2024

Bernie Grundman (born 16 December 1943, Minneapolis) is an American audio engineer.[1]

He is most known for his mastering work and his studio, Bernie Grundman Mastering, which he opened in 1984 in Hollywood. The studio, which includes engineers Chris Bellman, Patricia Sullivan, and Mike Bozzi, mastered 37 projects which received Grammy Award nominations in 2005. In 1997 he opened a studio in Tokyo.[2]

Grundman and his studio have both won numerous TEC Awards, including Best Mastering Facility and several production awards.[3]

Previously, Grundman worked for Lester Koenig at Contemporary Records and then was head of the A&M Records mastering department in Los Angeles. Now his studio also has been established in Tokyo, Japan with engineer Yasuji Maeda.

Select works

Head to the Sky 1973 Earth, Wind & Fire
Horizon 1974 Carpenters
Band Wagon 1975 Shigeru Suzuki
Aja 1977 Steely Dan
Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture 1978 Various Artists
Shadows and Light 1980 Joni Mitchell
Dirty Mind 1980 Prince
Controversy 1981 Prince
Thriller 1982 Michael Jackson
Lovesexy 1988 Prince
Moment of Truth 1991 Terri Nunn
The Chronic 1992 Dr. Dre
The Hunter 1992 Jennifer Warnes
Alien Love Secrets 1995 Steve Vai
Me Against the World 1995 Tupac Shakur
Rata Blanca VII 1997 Rata Blanca
Como Te Recuerdo 1998 Los Temerarios
The Charlie Brown Suite & Other Favorites 2003 Vince Guaraldi
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 2003 OutKast
Shadows Collide with People 2004 John Frusciante[4]
Private Corner 2010 Jacky Cheung
Breakaway 2014 Dark Horse Flyer
Seven 2014 Lisa Stansfield
In My Room 2016 Jacob Collier[5]
Ultraelectromagneticpop! (25th Anniversary reissue) 2018 Eraserheads
The Empyrean (10th Anniversary Re-Issue) 2019 John Frusciante[6]
1999 (2019 Remaster, Deluxe Edition, and Super Deluxe Edition) 2019 Prince[7]
Making a Door Less Open 2020 Car Seat Headrest
Unlimited Love 2022 Red Hot Chili Peppers

List is not complete.


References

  1. ^ "Luxury vinyl? Legendary engineer Bernie Grundman on Craft's Small Batch series". South China Morning Post. 2023-11-05. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  2. ^ Verna, Pauly (20 September 1997). "Gundman opens Tokyo studio". Billboard. p. 41. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  3. ^ [1] Archived May 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Shadows Collide With People by John Frusciante". Genius. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  5. ^ "Jacob Collier - In My Room - ginalovesjazz.com - the jazz magazine by matthias kirsch". 27 July 2016.
  6. ^ "John Frusciante 10th Anniversary of The Empyrean".
  7. ^ "Prince's '1999' Remastered and Re-Released with Dozens of Unheard Tracks". 11 September 2019.

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