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Mark Linett
History:
While living in Boston, he met a Hanley Sound rep. who knew Frank Zappa’s crew. When Zappa’s soundman became sick before the first tour date in Hartford, Connecticut, Mark recieved a phone call. It was Zappa’s band, who wanted him to fill in. He single-handedly, mixed the concert from their 48-channel board. From that success he ended up working with Zappa’s band for the next two years. In 1976, Mark worked for Earth, Wind & Fire’s 8-month tour. During that time he met George Massenberg and was offered a job as second engineer at Sunset Sound, which he accepted. He worked at Sunset for two years before striking out on his own to become an independent engineer in 1979.
When
he moved to his current residence in Southern California nine years
ago he was looking for a house to accommodate a small studio. Today
Mark's home studio offers a customized API console with 36 inputs
and flying faders, an airpack remote system, and a 14 input UA console,
built in 1962 (originally installed in historical Western Studio
#2). Ninety percent of Mark's work is now done at his home studio.
" The home studio (a 20 x 15 room) allows me to develop individual
techniques, experimenting with room mics and sounds," says
Linett.
Mark
mixed a live recording of Brian Wilson performing the songs from
Pet Sounds at the Royal Festival Hall in London, released in June
2002 by Sanctuary Records. Mark is working on the Beach Boys' albums
Pet Sounds and Surf's Up, mixing them to 5.1 surround at 96 kHz
sampling for DVD-Audio release by Capitol. The Pet Sounds DVD-A, scheduled for release in early 2003,
has some bonus cuts, including an instrumental, "Summer Means
New Love," which originally appeared on the Beach Boys' previous
release, Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) and is very much a precursor
to the way of working that the band adopted for Pet Sounds. It's the second
time Mark remixed Pet Sounds, originally released in 1966 and regarded
by many as the best of the Beach Boys' albums and one of the most
significant recordings of the 1960s. The first time, in 1996, he
performed the first stereo mix of the album for CD reissue, assembling
the tracks on digital multitrack. This time, he's using the latest
in high-quality DAW systems: Apogee's
NativeTools, a powerful combination of Apogee's AD-16 and DA-16
converters with Steinberg's Nuendo software Current Credits: Mark
received Grammy nomination for best engineered album which he recorded
and mixed for Brian
Wilson who won his first solo Grammy in 2005 for "Best Rock
Instrumental Performance" for "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow"
from his best-selling SMiLE album.
Mark has completed 5 remote recordings in 2002 to-date with his
location recording services dubbed “Your Place or Mine.”
Over the course of a career, Mark Linett has worked closely with such seminal artists as The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Paul Simon, Brian Wilson, Love, and, most recently, the New Cars. Linett and the New Cars - Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes from the original band in addition to Todd Rundgren, drummer Prairie Prince and singer/bassist Kasim Sulton - set up shop at Sound Stage in Burbank, California for three days of rehearsal in front of an invite-only live audience in January. "They are going out on tour so we did a live recording to hear how things were coming together, as well as to record a live album," Linett explains. In addition to the New Cars gigs, Linett has recently used his API flavored system on remote dates for the Isley Brothers, Hawthorne Heights, Nada Surf and a bunch of Brian Wilson projects that include the "Live At The Roxy Theatre" album, the "Pet Sounds Live" DVD and CD and the "SMiLE" DVD and CD. He also mixed Wilson's "SMiLE," "Gettin' In Over My Head" and "What I Really Want For Christmas," the singer's most recent Christmas album, at his some studio.
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