Ted Jensen
Ted Jensen is an American recording engineer. Jensen is the chief mastering engineer at Sterling Sound.[1] He started his career as a mastering engineer in 1976 and is currently the most active Mastering Engineer in the industry.[2] In total he has mastered, engineered, or mixed more than 2400 albums[3] from more than 1100 pop and rock musicians.[4]
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[edit] Awards and recognition
In 2003, he received a Grammy Award as master engineer of the Norah Jones album, Come Away with Me, which won Album of the Year.[5]
In recent years he has come under scrutiny[by whom?] for being the mastering engineer behind some of the most poorly mastered albums in terms of dynamics, usually referred to as the Loudness Wars; this includes the albums Death Magnetic by Metallica, and Black Gives Way to Blue by Alice in Chains. However in the case of the Metallica release an e-mail claiming to have come from Ted Jensen states that the mixes arrived that way and that he was not proud to have been associated with the release.[6]
[edit] Studio
Sterling Sound is located on the west side of Manhattan in the Chelsea neighborhood. Jensen's studio is one of the three surround sound studios at Sterling Sound, the other two belong to George Marino and Leon Zervos. Jensen's studio is equipped with five Bowers & Wilkins 801 Nautilus loudspeakers, powered by four Classe Omega power amplifiers.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound
- ^ Album Credits Top100 Professionals
- ^ Ted Jensen on Album Credits
- ^ Credits at Allmusic.com
- ^ Ted Jensen, Grammy Winners Search. Grammy.com. Accessed December 11, 2007.
- ^ metallicabb.com
- ^ http://sterlingsound.com/main.php
[edit] External links
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