Notable MCH engineers listing

[humprof]

Awesome work @humprof - it looks like the total entries have almost doubled, from 682 to 1348 (!)

The only thing I'd suggest is changing the format separators from commas to slashes ( "/" ) - you can do this in Excel by selecting the whole format column in Excel, then go to the Find & Replace menu, Find , Replace with / and then Replace All. This will make it match the formatting of both the (glorious and impeccably maintained) quad engineers listing and also the surround polls.

Maintaining this should get easier going forward as starting with the 2021 Surround Releases thread, @haikubass has wisely added a Surround Engineer column, so you have a one-stop place to find all the newest entries.

Good suggestion, easy fix. It may add a little ambiguity here & there, as individual formats sometimes already include a slash (as in Atmos/Auro-3D BDA, or 24/96 DTS-DVDV), but I don't think it should be too confusing. (Rationalizing & regularizing the format names--there are quite a few variants--is something I might also try to do, incrementally, in the future, along with adding release dates to old entries.)

And yes: I forgot to thank @haikubass, from whose 2021 Surround Releases thread I already lifted a couple of titles!

 

[fredblue]

Thanks to @fredblue for starting(?) and maintaining the list before now, @steelydave and others for endless bird-dogging, and @HomerJAU for technical wizardry. Just one of many amazing resources here at QQ. Work in progress; corrections and additions welcome.

ahh.. it was my absolute pleasure!
tbh if its not something related to Dutton Vocalion, Involve/Surround Master, SQ/QS/Q8/CD-4 or something mixed in Surround by someone the calibre of Steven Wilson, Elliot Scheiner etc my heart's just not in the hobby the way it was, all those lovely ol' Quads have spoiled me.... forevermore!!!

 

[steelydave]

@humprof a few more new additions as a result of various 'now listening to in surround' posts and other conversations I've taken note of:

Jeff Balding
Lonestar - Lonely Grill (UNRELEASED) [2000] (per Billboard 9/23/2000)
Megadeth - That One Night Live (DTS DVD-V) [2007]
SHeDaisy - The Whole SheBANG (DTS-ES DVD-A) [2003]

Jake Nicely
Orleans - Live (DTS CD) [1998]

Elliott Scheiner
Ben Folds - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (DTS CD) [2015]

Al Schmitt
David Benoit - American Landscape (DTS CD)

Bob Wright
The London Philharmonic - Tchaikovsky Classics (DVD-A) [2001]
The London Philharmonic - Dream Suite I (DVD-A) [2001]
The London Philharmonic - Dream Suite II (DVD-A) [2001]
London Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven Classics [2001]
London Symphony Orchestra - The Nutcracker: Highlights from the Tchaikovsky Classic (DVD-A) [2000]
London Symphony Orchestra - Handel's Water Garden (DVD-A) [2001]
London Symphony Orchestra - Handel's Messiah (DVD-A) [2001]
London Symphony Orchestra - Mozart Classics [2001]
London Symphony Orchestra - Schubert Classics [2001]
London Symphony Orchestra / London Philharmonic - The Four Seasons of Love - Spring Affair (DTS CD) [1999]
Nashville Big Band Jazz Ensemble - Big Band Christmas (DTS CD)
Nashville Big Band Jazz Ensemble - Big Band Christmas Volume Two (DVD-A) [2001]

(I believe most or all of the London stuff is conducted by Don Jackson, but not positive)

 

[sjcorne]

I've got a few 2021 additions:

Bob Clearmountain:
The Band - Stage Fright
A Bad Think - LifeLike

Alan Parsons:
Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat

Rich Mouser:
Transatlanic - The Absolute Universe

Stephen W. Tayler:
Be-Bop Deluxe - Drastic Plastic

Steven Wilson:
Jethro Tull - A

 

[neil wilkes]

Can I also please add the following:
Gene Clark - No Other (BDA/SACD)

There will be 4 more later this year too.....all Love and Rockets

 

[humprof]

I'm not eager to make more work for the current (that would be me) or future database-minder, but yesterday I posted in the classical thread a link to a 2018 story about Take5 Music Production, whose recording supervisor Thore Brinkman and mixers Jens Braun and Ingo Petry--all of them credentialed Tonmeisters--are effectively (and previously unbeknownst to me) the house recording and mixing team for the esteemed Swedish classical label BIS Records. This effectively makes Braun and Petry the mixers of record for literally dozens of multi-channel releases, going back perhaps a couple of decades.

BIS doesn't always get a lot of love for its surround mixes--I've even seen disparaging speculation that some of them are no more than upmixes from stereo--but I think select recordings (e.g., the Mahler cycle from the Minnesota Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä, or the Stravinsky titles from the Bergen Philharmonic under Andrew Litton) are quite lively, and the mic placement diagrams and interviews in the story show a very careful and deliberate approach to recording and mixing for surround.
http://classicalmusicrecording.blogspot.com/2018/10/bis-records-and-take-5-music-production.html

 

[steelydave]

Michael H. Brauer
Allman Brothers Band - Live at Great Woods (DD DVD-V) [2000] (with John Alberts)
Ben Folds and the WASO - Live in Perth (DD DVD-V) [2005]
Bill Withers - Just as I Am (DD DualDisc) [2005]
Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Volume 3: The Video (DD DVD-V) [2004] (with John Alberts)
Bob Dylan - Live 1964 (Concert at Philharmonic Hall) (SACD) [2016]
Bob Dylan - MTV Unplugged (DD DVD-V) [2004]
Bob Dylan - The Other Side of the Mirror (Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963 - 1965) (BD-V / DVD-V) [2007]
Celine Dion - The Colour of My Love Concert (DD DVD-V) [1996] (with John Alberts)
Five for Fighting - The Battle For Everything (DD DualDisc) [2004]
Indigo Girls - Watershed (10 Years of Underground Video) (DD DVD-V) [1998]
Kenny Loggins - Outside: From the Redwoods (DD DVD-V) [1998]
Leonard Cohen - Live in London (DD DVD-V) [2009]
My Morning Jacket - Okonokos (DD DVD-V) [2006]
Paul McCartney - Back in the U.S. (DD DVD-V) [2002]
Paul McCartney - Live in Red Square (DD DVD-V) [2005]
Rolling Stones - At The Max (BD-V / DVD-V) [1991]
Simon & Garfunkel - Old Friends - Live on Stage (DD DVD-V) [2004]
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Live From Austin Texas (DD DVD-V) [2004]
Tony Bennett - MTV Unplugged (DD DVD-V) [2007]
Various Artists - A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan (DD DVD-V) [1998]

Don Murray
Lee Ritenour - Overtime (BD-V / DVD-V) [2004]

 

[neil wilkes]

Michael H. Brauer
Allman Brothers Band - Live at Great Woods (DD DVD-V) [2000] (with John Alberts)
Ben Folds and the WASO - Live in Perth (DD DVD-V) [2005]
Bill Withers - Just as I Am (DD DualDisc) [2005]
Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Volume 3: The Video (DD DVD-V) [2004] (with John Alberts)
Bob Dylan - Live 1964 (Concert at Philharmonic Hall) (SACD) [2016]
Bob Dylan - MTV Unplugged (DD DVD-V) [2004]
Bob Dylan - The Other Side of the Mirror (Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963 - 1965) (BD-V / DVD-V) [2007]
Celine Dion - The Colour of My Love Concert (DD DVD-V) [1996] (with John Alberts)
Five for Fighting - The Battle For Everything (DD DualDisc) [2004]
Indigo Girls - Watershed (10 Years of Underground Video) (DD DVD-V) [1998]
Kenny Loggins - Outside: From the Redwoods (DD DVD-V) [1998]
Leonard Cohen - Live in London (DD DVD-V) [2009]
My Morning Jacket - Okonokos (DD DVD-V) [2006]
Paul McCartney - Back in the U.S. (DD DVD-V) [2002]
Paul McCartney - Live in Red Square (DD DVD-V) [2005]
Rolling Stones - At The Max (BD-V / DVD-V) [1991]
Simon & Garfunkel - Old Friends - Live on Stage (DD DVD-V) [2004]
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Live From Austin Texas (DD DVD-V) [2004]
Tony Bennett - MTV Unplugged (DD DVD-V) [2007]
Various Artists - A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan (DD DVD-V) [1998]

Don Murray
Lee Ritenour - Overtime (BD-V / DVD-V) [2004]

So many in AC3 is actually still shocking to me.

 

[humprof]

Can I also please add the following:
Gene Clark - No Other (BDA/SACD)

There will be 4 more later this year too.....all Love and Rockets

@neil wilkes, are you at liberty to say any more about the upcoming L&R releases? (Should we assume BDAs of the remaining discs from the 2013 box set?)

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

1 release to add to the list...from me!

• Mr. Afternoon - The Golden Bonana (Jul 7, 2021) [5.1] {DVD-Audio}

EDIT: I noticed this thread is for NOTABLE MCh engineers and I sadly do not fit into that category so please ignore this.

 

[neil wilkes]

@neil wilkes, are you at liberty to say any more about the upcoming L&R releases? (Should we assume BDAs of the remaining discs from the 2013 box set?)

All I can say at this point is that we are busy on a series of previously unreleased live performances as well as reworking the Beggars Banquet studio titles.
BDA of the box set is highly likely although at this point unconfirmed so whilst I would say 'don't get your hopes up just yet' I would also say that the label are 100% behind The Rockets and this programme of re-issues scheduled for next year.....
All on board the express kundalini!!

 

[ar surround]

1 release to add to the list...from me!

• Mr. Afternoon - The Golden Bonana (Jul 7, 2021) [5.1] {DVD-Audio}

EDIT: I noticed this thread is for NOTABLE MCh engineers and I sadly do not fit into that category so please ignore this.

We haven't heard the whole TGB set as of yet. So you never know PM; you just might find yourself added to this list.

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

We haven't heard the whole TGB set as of yet. So you never know PM; you just might find yourself added to this list.

 

[steelydave]

@edisonbaggins post in the Mika Sinfonia Pop thread got me wondering who did the mix, and it turns out it's Frank Filipetti, who did a number of really good music-only 5.1 remixes including Billy Joel's The Stranger and 52nd Street, and James Taylor's Hourglass, which is a personal favourite.

I had a bit of a comb through Filipetti's discogs page (and his official website, where it turns out we have way more 5.1 credits collated than he does), and came up with a bunch of other music BluRays and DVDs where he's credited for the 5.1 remix, for anyone who wants to explore more of his work:

Frank Filipetti
Andrea Bocelli - One Night in Central Park (BD-V/DVD-V) [2011]
Dave Grusin - An Evening With Dave Grusin (BD-V) [2011]
Elton John - Greatest Hits: One Night Only (DD DVD-V) [2003]
Elton John - The Red Piano (BD-V/DVD-V) [2008]
James Taylor - Live at the Beacon Theatre (DD DVD-V) [1998] (with John Alberts)
Meat Loaf - VH1 Storytellers (DD DVD-V) [2003]
Mika - Sinfonia Pop (BD-V/DVD-V) [2016]
Ted Nugent - Motor City Mayhem (The 6,000th Concert) (BD-V/DVD-V) [2009]

 

[fizzywiggs41]

Here's one ;

Steve Rosenthal & Kabir Hermon , Concert Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound Mix :

Live Concert Produced by : Nora Guthrie , Bob Santelli , and Garth Ross. Producer/Director : Jim Brown ,
Exectutive Producer : Nora Guthrie .



Woody Guthrie at 100! Live at the Kennedy Center recorded live October 14 ,2012 .

 

[Jeddia]

All I can say at this point is that we are busy on a series of previously unreleased live performances as well as reworking the Beggars Banquet studio titles.
BDA of the box set is highly likely although at this point unconfirmed so whilst I would say 'don't get your hopes up just yet' I would also say that the label are 100% behind The Rockets and this programme of re-issues scheduled for next year.....
All on board the express kundalini!!

You were saying just after the 7th Dream release how you'd love to get your hands on 'Express'. This sounds promising! And hopefully Beggars will get some of that old Cult outta the vault, too.

 

[steelydave]

@humprof some more credits collected in the months since I last posted here.

Gustavo Bonnett
Dixie Dregs - From the Front Row... Live! (DVD-A) [2003]

Guy Charbonneau
Avenged Sevenfold - Live in the LBC (DD DVD-V) [2008]
Gwen Stefani - Harajuku Lovers Live (DTS DVD-V) [2006]
Various Artists - Coachella (DTS DVD-V) [2006]

Rich Chycki
Tom Cochrane & Red Rider - Trapeze: The Collection (DVD-A) [2003] (assisted by Chris Gordon)
Rush - Moving Pictures (Atmos BD-A) [2022]
The Tragically Hip - Road Apples (Atmos BD-A) [2021]

Rich Fowler
John Entwistle - From the Front Row... Live! (DVD-A) [2004]
Uriah Heep - From the Front Row... Live! (DVD-A) [2003]

Chris Haynes
Various Artists - Ruder Than You: The Best of British Ska (DVD-A) [2002]
Yellowcard - Beyond Ocean Avenue: Live At The Electric Factory (DD DVD-V) [2004]

Conrad Hensel
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Async Surround (BD)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Playing the Orchestra (BD)

Steve Macmillan
Boz Scaggs - Greatest Hits Live (DTS DVD-V) [2004]

Ronald Prent
Nemesea - Live at the P3 / In Control 5.1 (DTS DVD-V) [2015]

Kevin Shirley
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter: Unledded (DTS DVD-V) [2004]

Erik Zobler
Doc Powell - 97th & Columbus (SACD) [2003]

 

[humprof]

@humprof some more credits collected in the months since I last posted here.

Gustavo Bonnett
Dixie Dregs - From the Front Row... Live! (DVD-A) [2003]

Guy Charbonneau
Avenged Sevenfold - Live in the LBC (DD DVD-V) [2008]
Gwen Stefani - Harajuku Lovers Live (DTS DVD-V) [2006]
Various Artists - Coachella (DTS DVD-V) [2006]

Rich Chycki
Tom Cochrane & Red Rider - Trapeze: The Collection (DVD-A) [2003] (assisted by Chris Gordon)
Rush - Moving Pictures (Atmos BD-A) [2022]
The Tragically Hip - Road Apples (Atmos BD-A) [2021]

Rich Fowler
John Entwistle - From the Front Row... Live! (DVD-A) [2004]
Uriah Heep - From the Front Row... Live! (DVD-A) [2003]

Chris Haynes
Various Artists - Ruder Than You: The Best of British Ska (DVD-A) [2002]
Yellowcard - Beyond Ocean Avenue: Live At The Electric Factory (DD DVD-V) [2004]

Conrad Hensel
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Async Surround (BD)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Playing the Orchestra (BD)

Steve Macmillan
Boz Scaggs - Greatest Hits Live (DTS DVD-V) [2004]

Ronald Prent
Nemesea - Live at the P3 / In Control 5.1 (DTS DVD-V) [2015]

Kevin Shirley
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter: Unledded (DTS DVD-V) [2004]

Erik Zobler
Doc Powell - 97th & Columbus (SACD) [2003]

Much obliged. Update is overdue, I know. . . .

 

[steelydave]

Martin Atkinson
Carey Bell ft. Lurrie Bell - Harpslinger (SACD) [2004]
James & Lucky Peterson - If You Can't Fix It (SACD) [2004]
Jimmy Witherspoon - Big Blues (SACD) [2004]
Lowell Fulson - Think Twice Before You Speak (SACD) [2004]
Buddy Guy - D.J. Play My Blues (SACD) [2004]
Deitra Farr - Let It Go! (SACD) [2005] (with John Stedman)
Byther Smith - Addressing the Nation with The Blues (SACD) [2005]
Guitar Shorty and the Otis Grand Blues Band - My Way or the Highway (SACD) [2004]
Bernard Allison, Larry McCray, Carl Weathersby & Lucky Peterson - Triple Fret (SACD) [2005]
Michael Hill - Black Gold & Goddesses Bold! (SACD) [2005]
Hubert Sumlin - Blues Guitar Boss (SACD) [2005]

Mike Fisher
Babyface - MTV Unplugged NYC 1997 (DD DVD-V) [2001]

Rich Fowler
Taj Mahal - Live at Ronnie Scott's (DVD-A/DVD-A DualDisc) [2004]
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Home of the Hits: The Best Of (DVD-A) [2002]
Various – Sound In Color / Mu.sic - Pixelated Pulse (DVD-A) [2003]
Jimmy Witherspoon - The Blues, The Whole Blues, and Nothing But the Blues (DVD-A) [2003]

Bill Kennedy
Megadeth - Rude Awakening Live (DD DVD-V) [2002]

Richard King
Bob Belden - Black Dahlia (SACD) [2003]

Gary Lux
Richard Friedman - Elements - East (DVD-A) [2000]
Richard Friedman - Elements - Earth (DVD-A) [2000]
Richard Friedman - Elements - Spirit (DVD-A) [2000]

Jay Messina
Cheap Trick - Budokan! (DD DVD-V) [2008] (with Jack Douglas)

Arnþór Örlygsson
Mezzoforte - Forward Motion (SACD) [2004]

Ronald Prent
Sita - Happy (SACD) [2001]

Kevin Shirley
Iron Maiden - Death on the Road (DD DVD-V) [2006]

Tomoo Suzuki
Morelenbaum² / Sakamoto – Live In Tokyo 2001 (DVD-A) [2003]

Eiji Uchinuma
Kenichi Tsunoda Big Band - Big Band Stage (DVD-A/SACD) [2010]
Kenichi Tsunoda Big Band - Big Band Sound (SACD) [2010]

Wilfred Van Baelen
Lee Towers - Legendary Gala of the Year Ahoy Document (SACD) [2001]

Rudy Van Gelder
Joe Henderson - Lush Life (The Music of Billy Strayhorn) (SACD) [2004]
Buster Williams - Griot Liberte (SACD) [2004]
The CTI All-Star Jazz Band - Montreux Jazz Festival 2009 (DVD-V/BD-V) [2010]

 

[humprof]

Poussin Kechit
Lavilliers - Carnets de Bord (SACD)

Evidently this engineer's nom de potentiomètre is "Poussin," tout simple. (Here's his LinkedIn, which uses his full name.) From the following piece, it's apparent that not only has he done the recent streaming Atmos mixes of all the Serge Gainsbourg studio albums, he's actually the longtime custodian of the Gainsbourg catalog, having overseen various compilations and remasters--and the 5.1 mix of Histoire de Melody Nelson from 2011. (He's also done lots of 5.1 concert recordings, and he mastered the Blu-Rays of Legend and Songs In the Key of Life, among others.)

https://magicvinyldigital.net/2022/04/22/from-tape-to-dolby-atmos-sacd-visit-of-des-studio-part1/https://magicvinyldigital.net/2022/...n-sacd-from-a-tape-visit-of-des-studio-part2/