Mixing engineers I admire
- Ed Cherney
- Bonnie Raitt’s Luck of the Draw
- Tom Schick
- Joan Shelley’s self-titled
- Wilco & Jeff Tweedy
- Iron & Wine’s Beast Epic
- Norah Jones Not Too Late
- Chris Shaw
- Death Cab’s Plans
- Weezer’s Blue Album
- Nada Surf’s The Weight Is a Gift
- Peter Katis
- The National’s High Violet, I Am Easy to Find, lots of others
- Gang of Youths’ Go Farther in Lightness
- The Paper Kites’ On the Corner Where You Live
- Producer on The Swell Season’s Strict Joy
- Shawn Everett
- The War on Drugs’ A Deeper Understanding
- Brittany Howard’s Jaime
- Kacey Musgraves’s Golden Hour
- Lucius’s Wildewoman, self-titled
- Emma Louise’s Lilac Everything
- Big Thief’s Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
- Brian Joseph
- Anna Tivel’s Outsiders
- Bon Iver’s self-titled
- D. James Goodwin
- Bonnie Light Horseman’s self-titled
- Kevin Morby’s Oh My God
- Andy Wallace
- Dashboard Confessional’s Dusk and Summer
- Jeff Buckley’s Grace
- Nirvana’s Nevermind
- Rage Against the Machine’s Evil Empire
- Alex Bush
- Damien Jurado’s The Horizon Just Laughed, In the Shape of a Storm
- Nigel Godrich
- Beck’s Sea Change
- Radiohead’s In Rainbows, Kid A, OK Computer, The Bends
- Ben Baptie
- Moses Sumney’s Aromanticism
- David Boucher (has done a lot of my favs, but he tends to have slightly too much hi mids for my taste)
- Randy Newman’s Dark Matter (and a lot of other stuff)
- Madison Cunningham’s Who Are You Now
- Andrew Bird’s Armchair Apocrypha and Noble Beast
- Punch Brothers’ Hell on Church Street
- Marc Daniel Nelson
- Andrew Sarlo
- Courtney Marie Andrews’s Old Flowers
- Big Thief’s Two Hands
- Richie Biggs
- Jon Foreman’s seasons EPs
- The Civil Wars’ self-titled
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