Gavin Lurssen is an American mastering engineer. He owns Lurssen Mastering in Hollywood, California.  Lurssen's Grammy Award–winning work includes Raising Sand, a collaborative album featuring Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, and the soundtrack for the Coen Brothers film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?.  He has also mastered recordings by Tom Waits, Sheryl Crow, Loretta Lynn, Matchbox Twenty, T-Bone Burnett, Jennette McCurdy and many others. Lurssen is an alumnus of Berklee College of Music.

Discography
This is a partial discography of recordings mastered by Gavin Lurssen.

Albums
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! Artist
! Additional information
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|1979
|Chicago 16
|Chicago
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|1993
|Live
|James Taylor
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|1993
|I'm Alive
|Jackson Browne
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|1993
|Stepping Out
|Diana Krall
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|1994
|I Love Everybody
|Lyle Lovett
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|1994
|Jamie Walters
|Jamie Walters
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|1995
|Leo Kottke Live
|Leo Kottke
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|1995
|Only Trust Your Heart
|Diana Krall
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|1995
|Feels Like Home
|Linda Ronstadt
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|1995
|Evil Stig
|Evil Stig
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|1996
|Looking East
|Jackson Browne
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|1996
|Peace on Earth
|Kitarō
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|1996
|Sell, Sell, Sell
|David Gray
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|1996
|That's Right
|George Benson
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|1996
|Rockin' down the Highway: The Wildlife Concert
|The Doobie Brothers
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|1996
|This Conversation Seems Like a Dream
|Kip Winger
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|1996
|Acoustic Traveller
|John McEuen
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|1996
|En Pleno Vuelo
|Marco Antonio Solís
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|1997
|Vulnerable
|Marvin Gaye
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|1997
|More Best of Leonard Cohen
|Leonard Cohen
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|1997
|When the Bough Breaks
|Bill Ward
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|1997
|Last of the Sharpshooters
|Down by Law
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|1997
|Plastique Valentine
|The Humpers
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|1998
|Live at the Roxy
|Social Distortion
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|1998
|Transcendental Highway
|Colin Hay
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|1998
|Walking in Avalon
|Christopher Cross
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|1998
|The Living End
|The Living End
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|1998
|Happy Pills
|Candlebox
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|1998
|No Substance
|Bad Religion
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|1998
|Guilty 'til Proved Innocent!
|The Specials
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|1998
|Waste of Mind
|Zebrahead
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|1999
|The Fundamental Elements of Southtown
|P.O.D.
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|1999
|Synergy
|Dave Weckl
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|1999
|Fire in the City of Automatons
|No Knife
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|1999
|Edge of Forever
|Lynyrd Skynyrd
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|1999
|Libido
|Buck-O-Nine
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|1999
|Brave New World
|Styx
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|1999
|Meson Ray
|The Ernies
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|1999
|Live at The Woodlands
|Crystal Lewis
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|2000
|The New America
|Bad Religion
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|2000
|U.S. Crush
|U.S. Crush
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|2000
|Christmas Time Again
|Lynyrd Skynyrd
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|2000
|Fearless
|Crystal Lewis
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|2000
|Holiday! A Collection of Christmas Classics
|Crystal Lewis
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|2000
|Playmate of the Year
|Zebrahead
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|2001
|Just Like Gravity
|CPR
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|2001
|Beautiful Midnight
|Matthew Good Band
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|2001
|Fan Dance
|Sam Phillips
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|2001
|Humanistic
|Abandoned Pools
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|2002
|Blood Money
|Tom Waits
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|2002
|Beeline
|Peter Case
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|2002
|Light a Match, For I Deserve to Burn
|The Beautiful Mistake
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|2002
|Santa Claus Lane
|Hilary Duff
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|2002
|Andalucia
|Tito & Tarantula
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|2003
|Diamonds On the Inside
|Ben Harper
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|2004
|Real Gone
|Tom Waits
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|2006
|Peeping Tom
|Peeping Tom
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|2007
|Exile on Mainstream
|Matchbox Twenty
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| 2007
| Raising Sand
| Allison Krause/Robert Plant
| Grammy Award (Album of the Year, Record of the Year)
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|2008
|Approaching Normal
|Blue October
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|2009
|Songs for a Breakup, Vol. 1
|Fitz and the Tantrums
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| 2010
| The Union
| Elton John/Leon Russell
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| 2013
| Dimensionaut
| Sound of Contact
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| 2013
| ...Like Clockwork
| Queens of the Stone Age
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| 2014
| Oko
| Lena Fayre
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|2014
|Sonic Highways
|Foo Fighters
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| 2015
| B
| Diamante Eléctrico
| Latin Grammy Award (Best Rock Album)
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| 2015
| Breathless
| Terence Blanchard
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|2016
|A Sailor's Guide to Earth
|Sturgill Simpson
|Grammy Award (Best Country Album)
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|2018
|Live
| Terence Blanchard
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|2023
|In Times New Roman...
| Queens of the Stone Age
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Soundtracks

 Reissues 

 Assistant 

Awards

Grammy Awards

2002: Album of the Year - O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack2004: Best Historical Album - Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey2009: Album of the Year - Raising Sand (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss)

Latin Grammy Awards

2010: Best Engineered Album: Distinto (Diego Torres)
2015: Best Rock Album: B'' (Diamante Eléctrico)

References

External links
Official site for Lurssen Mastering
[ AllMusic Credits]

Living people
American audio engineers
Grammy Award winners
Latin Grammy Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people)
Mastering engineers