![]() ![]() Sterling sound reference file professional#He worked in New York City as a professional guitarist and singer through the ’80s and ’90s, but it wasn’t until he studied Robert Fripp’s Guitar Craft that he really started meditating on the vibrational aspect of music. The path into mastering was gradual for Lucey. Since then, Lucey has gone on to master every subsequent Black Keys release, and releases for Arctic Monkeys, Beck, Sigur Ros, Ray LaMontagne, and The Shins, as well as Aussie hits like Chet Faker’s Built on Glass. “We built trust over a couple of years of getting to know each other. “It just happened,” said Lucey of the now long-term relationship. So for both of us it was a really big record. I was doing very well before Brothers, but I’d never done a really big record. Lucey: “They were very successful before Brothers but I think it’s fair to say it took them up a whole new level. That record ended up being Brothers, a massive hit. I was like, ‘yeah, I think I can probably fit that in.’” “I’d gone to visit my parents and got this call asking if I could do the new album in three weeks. ![]() “I was actually having a really bad day with relationship problems,” recalled Lucey. John record, till one day Lucey got offered the new Black Keys record mixed by Tchad Blake. After all, no one likes someone who toots their on horn.įrom there the two Ohio natives kept working on material Dan was producing, like the Dr. But when Lucey mentioned it to Dan, he shrugged it off. This was pre- Brothers in ’08, though the band was already huge. ![]() Dan wasn’t just the producer from Akron, he was one half of The Black Keys. So Lucey did what anyone would do, he googled his name - ‘Dan Auerbach’ - the result was pages and pages of references to The Black Keys. In a 500-mile radius, you can go tour a lot of places. From Akron, you go to Detroit, or to Chicago, New York or Philadelphia, or you go to Nashville, or Memphis, Columbus or Pittsburgh or Indianapolis. He explains: “In the United States of America, Phoenix is not a major market you’d think to tour, particularly a band from Akron, Ohio. The projects kept coming, and towards the end of an on-and-off three-week revision process for one, Lucey recalls Dan saying, ‘Well I go on tour tomorrow, so I’ll be in Phoenix, just send me the mixes whatever and we’ll talk.’ Lucey hung up the phone and thought, ‘Phoenix?!’ But Dan was still just the ‘producer from Akron’ to this local Columbus, Ohio, mastering engineer. Lucey was excited about the positive exposure, that was a relatively big hit for a client at the time. The first was a record by a band called Hacienda, which racked up four stars in Rolling Stone. ![]() He’d tried Sterling and the rest, and wasn’t blown away, so he started sending Lucey projects to master. I will never have their history, and my name doesn’t have that kind of cachet.”ĭan got it, a real Ohio native-kind of guy you aren’t anything special until you show it. “But obviously those are industry giants who’ve been around for decades. No one likes self-aggrandising, but if you’re not confident in your work, why would anyone else be either? So he gave his new answer, straight-up and honest: “Well my clients say the work is on par with those people,” started Lucey. He just wants to move air and the people that hear your mix.įortuitously, when he first took a call from ‘Dan, the producer out of Akron’ in 2008, Brian Lucey had just spent the previous couple of days mulling over the best way to answer the question mastering engineers always get asked: ‘How does your work compare with Sterling Sound, etc, etc?’ Mastering engineer Brian Lucey isn’t concerned about loudness wars and high resolution files. ![]()
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