Howie Weinberg

Howie Weinberg is an American audio mastering engineer with over 2,257 mastering credits according to AllMusic,[1] over 200 albums certified Gold or Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA),[2] 3 TEC Awards,[3][1] 16 Grammy Awards, 33 Grammy nominations,[4][5][1] 2 Juno Awards,[6][1][7][8] and 1 Mercury Prize.

Notably, Weinberg mastered Herbie Hancock's 1983 Grammy Award-winning album Future Shock.[9][10] Weinberg also worked on the Payolas' Juno-winning 1993 song "Eyes of a Stranger".[8][1] Other notable mastering works include the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill[9] and Nirvana's Nevermind,[9][11][12] both of which were ranked on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[13]

Weinberg also worked with:

Dimebag Darrell of Pantera said of Weinberg:

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.[24]

Weinberg began working in the mail room at Masterdisk in 1979, delivering recording tapes in New York City. Mastering engineer Bob Ludwig acted as his mentor. In January 2011, he left Masterdisk to set up his own mastering company in Los Angeles, Howie Weinberg Mastering, which appeared in Voyage LA Magazine's "Most Inspiring Stories" on February 11, 2021.[25]

In 2017 his work from Nirvana's, Smells Like Teen Spirit, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[11] That year he also won a Juno Awards of 2017 for The Strumbellas.[26][1]

He appeared on a panel discussion at the 2009 SXSW music festival titled Producers "On Making Classic Records" sometimes working in a teaching capacity.[27]

Weinberg also consults with new technologies, new media, and education. In 2020, Weinberg began consulting with LANDR, an online, cloud-based, automated mastering service developed by MixGenius in Montreal, Quebec. The service digitally masters uploaded audio tracks using artificial intelligence algorithms.[28][29]

Awards

GRAMMY WINS AND NOMINATIONS
YEAR ARTIST ALBUM GRAMMY NOMINATIONS RESULTS
1983 Herbie Hancock Future Shock Best R&B Instrumental Performance


Best Jazz Instrumental Performance [30] [31]

Won Best R&B Instrumental Performance
1991 Soundgarden 'Badmotorfinger Best Metal Performance.[32][9][33][34] Nominated
1991 Mariah Carey 'Emotions Best Pop Female Performance


Producer of the Year Non Classical [35][25][6][9][33]

2X Nominated
1991 Nirvana Nevermind Best Alternative Music Album[36][9][11][12] [37] Nominated
1992 Nirvana Nevermind Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance


Best Rock Song [9][11][12] [37][38]

2X Nominated
1992 Arrested Development '3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of... Best New Artist


Best Rap Performance Duo or Group


Best Rap Performance Duo or Group for the single Tennessee. It was nominated for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for the single People Everyday.[39][18][4]

2X Won Best New Artist and

Best Rap Performance Duo or Group for the single Tennessee.

1993 LL Cool J 14 Shots to the Dome s single "Stand by Your Man (LL Cool J song)[40][41] [42][18][4]Nominated Best Rap Solo Performance Nominated
1995 Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik Best Hard Rock Performance [43].[9][4] Nominated
1996 Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Record of the Year

Album of the Year

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal

Best Alternative Music Performance

Best Music Video, Short Form[9][4][44][45]

Won Best Hard Rock Performance
1996 Garbage Stupid Girl Best New Artist


Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal


Best Rock Song.[46][9][4]

3X Nominated
1997 Smashing Pumpkins The End Is the Beginning Is the End Best Hard Rock Performance [47][9][4] Won
1997 U2 Pop Best Rock Album [48][9][49][4] Won
1998 Smashing Pumpkins Adore Best Alternative Music Performance.[50][14][4] Nominated
1998 Garbage Version 2.0, Album of the Year and Rock Album[51][14][4] Nominated
2000 Madonna Music Record of the Year

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

Best Pop Vocal Album.[52][9][4]

3X Nominated
2003 Sheryl Crow C'mon, C'mon Best Female Rock Vocal Performance

Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals

Best Rock Album and Best Country Collaboration with Vocals

Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.[53][54]

Best Engineered Recording, Non Classical

Won Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
2006 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones Best Alternative Music Album.[14][55][4] Nominated
2006 UB40 Who You Fighting For? Best Reggae Album.[56][14][4] Nominated
2006 Gustavo Cerati Ahí vamos Best Rock Solo Vocal - Latin Grammy Nominated
2008 Daft Punk Alive 2007 Best Electronic/Dance Album [57][9][4] Won
2013 Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel..., Best Alternative Music Album.[58][9][4] Nominated
2019 Mon Laferte Norma Best Alternative Music Album.[59]
2020 Gary Clark Jr. This Land Best Contemporary Blues Album

Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song

Best Rock Song

Best Music Video.[60][9][4]

3X Won Best Contemporary Blues Album, Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song


In 2003 he won a Grammy for mastering Sheryl Crow's C'mon, C'mon which was released in 2002, spawning the hit single "Soak Up the Sun". The second single, "Steve McQueen", won Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. The album earned four Grammy nominations.[61][9] It was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, Best Rock Album and Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.[53][54]


Weinberg was nominated for the Mix Foundation's TEC Awards (Technical Excellence & Creativity) for mastering engineer in 1997.[62] He was named among the winners for Outstanding Creative Achievement in 2003 as part of the team for Sheryl Crow's "Soak Up the Sun" and C'mon, C'mon,[63]the album also earned 2 TEC Awards.[64][1][4]. In 2006 for Record Production as part of the team for Gorillaz's "Feel Good Inc".[65] In 2001 he received a Mercury Prize for mastering PJ Harvey's album Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea.[66][9] This album also won a Mercury Prize.[67][68]

As of 2021, Weinberg has not won a Grammy statuette.[69] Mastering engineers are not eligible for a GRAMMY statuette except in the categories of Best Historical Album, Best Immersive Audio Album, Best Engineered Album Classical, Best Engineered Album Non- Classical, Record of the Year and Album of The Year. (Mastering Engineers are eligible to receive a Winner's Certificate for all winning albums.).[70]

Weinberg will never be nominated as "Best Engineered" in any of those categories because those engineers (candidates and nominees) are recording engineers and not mastering engineers.

However, the recording engineers that recorded Sheryl Crow's, C'mom C'mon that Weinberg mastered, Jack Joseph Puig, Trina Shoemaker, Eric Tew and Andy Wallace, (Sheryl Crow) in 2002, were Grammy nominated in one of those categories, Best Engineered Recording, Non Classical, had they won for Best Engineered Recording, Non Classical, Weinberg would have received a Grammy statuette in place of a Grammy Winner's Certificate for mastering. They did not win, so instead, he earned the Grammy nomination.[71]

Personal life

Howie Weinberg married Rachel Felder, the director of artists and repertory at Columbia Records, in July 1999.[72] The couple separated in 2009 and divorced soon after.

Partial discography

If not stated otherwise, Howie Weinberg received credits for mastering. Listed in alphabetical order:[54]

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