Andy Wallace (music producer)

Andy Wallace (* 1947 ) is an American music producer and sound engineer . He received a Grammy Award in 1999.

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Andy Wallace made his breakthrough in 1986 with the production of the Run-DMC / Aerosmith song Walk This Way . In the same year he mixed Slayer's Reign in Blood with Rick Rubin .

Subsequently he worked, initially together with Rubin, for well-known artists such as The Cult , Prince , Bruce Springsteen , Sepultura , Nirvana , White Zombie , Jeff Buckley , Faith No More , Rollins Band , Rush , Alice Cooper , Bernard Butler , Bad Religion , Rage Against the Machine , Front 242 , Alabama 3 , Linkin Park , Trapt , Foo Fighters , Silverchair , At the Drive-In , Staind , Sevendust , Blind Melon , System of a Down , Phish , Skunk Anansie , A Perfect Circle , Limp Bizkit , Disturbed , Paul McCartney , The Cribs , Atreyu , Avenged Sevenfold and many more.

As of 2005, around 80 million albums were sold worldwide that were created with the participation of Wallace. Since the mid-1990s, Wallace has deliberately shifted its activities from producing to mere mixing of albums.

In 1999 Andy Wallace received a Grammy for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, with Tchad Blake and Trina Shoemaker for working on Sheryl Crow's album The Globe Sessions .

Discography (selection)

• Slayer - Reign in Blood (1986) E / M
• The Cult - Electric (1987) E / M
• Slayer - South of Heaven (1988) E / M
• New Model Army - Thunder and Consolation (1989) M
• Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss (1990) P / M
• Sepultura - Arise (1991) M.
• Nirvana - Nevermind (1991) M.
• Rollins Band - The End of Silence (1992) P.
• White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 (1992) P / E / M
• Sonic Youth - Dirty (1992) M
• Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (1992) M
• Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Are You Normal? (1992) P / E / M
• Galactic Cowboys - Space in Your Face (1993) M
• Sepultura - Chaos AD (1993) P / M
• Toadies - Rubberneck (1994) M
• Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (1994) P.
• Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994) P / E / M
• Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record (1994) M
• Faith No More - King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime (1995) P / M
• Blind Melon - Soup (1995) P.
• Rancid - … And Out Come the Wolves (1995) M
• Seaweed - Spanaway (1995) M.
• Front 242 - 06: 21: 03: 11 Up Evil M
• Sepultura - Roots (1996) M.
• Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (1996) M.
• Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire (1996) M
• Silverchair - Freak Show (1997) M
• Soulfly - Soulfly (1998) M
• Bernard Butler - Friends and Lovers (1999) M
• Atari Teenage Riot - 60 Second Wipeout (1999) M
• Feeder - Yesterday Went Too Soon (1999) M
• Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999) M.
• Sevendust - Home (1999) M
• Skunk Anansie - Post Orgasmic Chill (1999) P / M
• Toadies - Hell Below / Stars Above (2000) M
• At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command (2000) M.
• System of a Down - Toxicity (2001) M.
• Slipknot - Iowa (2001) M
• Stereophonics - Just Enough Education to Perform (2001) M.
• Natalie Imbruglia - White Lilies Island (2001) M
• Oleander - Unwind (2001) M
• Fenix ​​* TX - Lechuza (2001) M
• System of a Down - Steal This Album! (2002) M.
• Chevelle - Wonder What's Next (2002) M
• Korn - Untouchables (2002) M
• Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (2001) M.
• The Distillers - Coral Fang (2003) M
• Linkin Park - Meteora (2003) M
• A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step (2003) M.
• Blink-182 - Blink-182 (2003) M (4, 5, 8, 11)
• Patti Smith - Trampin ' (2004) E.
• System of a Down - Mezmerize and Hypnotize (2004/2005) M
• Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil (2005) M
• Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005) M
• Dashboard Confessional - Dusk and Summer (2006) M
• Kasabian - Empire (2006) M
• Elephant - The Black Magic Show (2006) M
• From First to Last - Heroine (2006) M
• Biffy Clyro - Puzzle (2007) M.
• Good Charlotte - Good Morning Revival (2007) E / M
• Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold (2007) M
• Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full (2007) M
• Atreyu - Lead Sails Paper Anchor (2007) M
• The Cribs - Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever (2007) M.
• Kelly Clarkson - My December (2007) M
• Airbourne - Runnin 'Wild (2007) M
• Shiny Toy Guns - Season of Poison (2008) M
• Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads (2008) M
• Gallows - Gray Britain (2009) M
• Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions (2009) M
• Kashmir - Trespassers (2010) P.
• Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare (2010) M
• Linkin Park - The Hunting Party (2014) M
• Ghost BC - Meliora (2015) M.

P - production, M - mix, E - engineering

Web links

• Interview with Andy Wallace in Mix Magazine (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Interview with Andy Wallace in Mix Magazine ( memento of October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed July 8, 2010