Howie Weinberg

Howie Weinberg is a music mastering engineer who has worked with numerous bands.

Career

In 2011 he moved to Los Angeles and opened Howie Weinberg Mastering located in Laurel Canyon after working 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."

Weinberg also worked with Tom Waits, The Mars Volta, Spoon, Public Enemy, Rammstein, Aerosmith, 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.

He appeared at the 2009 SXSW on the Panel: Producers On Making Classic Records.

In January 2011, he left Masterdisk to set up his own mastering company in Los Angeles.

Awards

He has been nominated for the Mix Foundation's Technical Excellence & Creativity award for mastering engineer in 1997, 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"), and was part of the winners for best track in 2006 with Gorillaz' "Feel Good, Inc".

Personal life

Howie Weinberg married Rachel Felder, the director of artists and repertory at Columbia Records in July 1999.

The couple separated in 2009 and divorced soonafter.

Partial Discography

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)
• Boss Hog - Boss Hog (1995)
• Buckethead - Bucketheadland (1992)
• Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie (1989)
• The Clash - Cut the Crap (1985)
• Billy Corgan - TheFutureEmbrace (2005)
• Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise (2010)
• 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)
• Everlast - Eat at Whitey's (2000)
• 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)
• GOD - Possession (1992)
• Gustavo Cerati - Ahi Vamos (2006)
• Johnny Goudie & The Little Champions - El Payaso (2009)
• Helmet - Meantime (1992); Betty (1994)
• 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)
• LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out (1990)
• Luna Sea - Lunacy (2000)
• The Mescaleros - Streetcore (2003)
• The Mint Chicks - Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! (2006); Bad Buzz EP (2010)
• Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)
• Bob Mould - Workbook (1989)
• Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (2006)
• Nice & Smooth - Nice & Smooth (1989)
• Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)
• Norma Jean - O God, the Aftermath (2005)
• 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)
• The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes (2006)
• 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)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987); Mother's Milk (1989); Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)
• 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 - Louder Than Love (1989); Badmotorfinger (1991)
• Sponge - Rotting Piñata (1994); Wax Ecstatic (1996); For All the Drugs in the World (2003)
• Spoon - Transference (2010)
• Staind - Dysfunction (1999)
• The Swear - Every Trick's a Good One (2005)
• Thrice - The Alchemy Index vols. 1-4 (2008); Beggars (2009)
• U2 - Pop (1997)
• Ween - Pure Guava (1992); Chocolate and Cheese (1994)
• The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (2005)
• Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea (2003)
• Disagree - To Prevent the Earth from Moving with You (2009)

His official Masterdisk discography is available from Masterdisk's website.

External links

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• Howie Weinberg's bio at Masterdisk
• Howie Weinberg discography at Discogs
• Howie Weinberg, The Rock Hard Times