AES New York 2018 Presenter or Author
Al Schmitt
Primary Affiliation: Los Angeles, CA, USA
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE – NEIL YOUNG – RAY CHARLES – DIANA KRALL – PAUL MCCARTNEY – FRANK SINATRA – HENRY MANCINI – TOTO
During an astonishingly long career Schmitt has won 23 Grammy Awards, making him the most successful engineer/mixer in Grammy history. During his career, Al has recorded and mixed more than 150 gold and platinum albums and was inducted into the TEC Awards Hall of Fame in 1997, and received the Grammy Trustees Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. Schmitt’s credits range back to the 1950s, when he worked with Leonard Feather, Marty Paich, and Henry Mancini. Since his credit list at Allmusic contains over 1100 entries, including the likes of Earth, Wind & Fire, Barbra Streisand, Neil Young, Diana Ross, Robbie Williams, Toni Braxton, Michael Bublé, Elvis Costello, Liza Minelli, Brian Wilson, Norah Jones, Bob Dylan, and Paul McCartney to name only a few. Throughout his long career Schmitt’s strength has been both in his grounding in the early analogue recording and production techniques of the 1950s and 1960s, and in the way he has been able to adapt and improve these techniques as new studio technologies became available. Schmitt’s roots and engineering genius show in his famous clean, and unadorned sound, which allows the natural qualities of the instruments and the arrangements to speak for themselves.
More Info: http://alschmittmusic.com/
Session List
Oct 17:
Al Schmitt (Presenter)
Oct 18:
SE07: Al Schmitt—On the Record (Presenter)
Oct 19:
SE13: METAlliance—The Mission (Panelist)