Mick Guzauski
Nathan "Mick" Guzauski is an American multi-platinum mixing engineer and sound engineer. His work spans a wide range of styles, including jazz, R&B, Latin, rock, pop, easy listening, funk and hip hop. He won a 2002 Latin Grammy for Thalía's "Arrasando", four 2004 Latin Grammys for Alejandro Sanz's "No Es Lo Mismo" (including Best Engineered Album), and the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, for Eric Clapton's "Back Home." As of 2001, he had mixed 27 # 1 singles. He also won multiple awards for the engineering and mixing of the Daft  Punk album Random Access Memories. Early life. Guzauski grew up in Rochester, New York, where there were no commercial sound studios. In high school he put together his own studio in his parents' basement with equipment that he borrowed, built, repaired, and modified. He did pickup engineer work with Steve Gadd and Tony Levin, then students at the Eastman School of Music, and Lou Gramm, who soon hit it big with Foreigner. Career. Around the same time, he met Chuck Mangione, an up-and-coming composer in Rochester, and engineered his recordings as well as mixed his live sound. When  Mangione signed with A&M Records in 1975, he asked Guzauski to go to Los Angeles with him to engineer his new album, a recording with a 45-piece orchestra with a rhythm section and soloists at A&M studios. Guzauski engineered several albums for Mangione over the next few years. 1980s. In the early 1980s, Guzauski worked with Maurice White and Earth, Wind and Fire at the Complex (then George Massenburg Studios). Conway Studios in L.A. became his home base in the mid-1980s, where he engineered and mixed projects for Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Mr. Mister, Madonna, Talking Heads, Johnny Mathis , Henry Mancini, Patti LaBelle, Stanley Clarke, George Duke, Quincy Jones, The Stabilizers, Michael Bolton, Kenny G, George Benson, Chuck Mangione, and Cher. 1990s on. In 1991, Walter Afanasieff asked him to mix a Michael Bolton record he was working on. Guzauski still does work for both of them. Afanasieff then hired him to mix a Mariah Carey album in 1993. Tommy Mottola, then CEO of Sony, liked his mixes and asked him to relocate to New York and work for him at Sony Music Studios. Guzauski accepted Mottola's offer, and worked on albums with Mottola at Sony and at  Mariah Carey's home studio, doing mostly female ballads. He also mixed projects for David Foster, Babyface, Boyz II Men, and All-4-One. In 2001, Guzauski worked with Michael Jackson to create 5.1-channel surround sound remixes of "Thriller" as well as all his other albums for release on the then new Super Audio CD format yet despite numerous retries the artist never approved any of the mixes. Current work. Guzauski now works from his private studio, Barking Doctor Recording, located in the basement of his home (in Mount Kisco, New York, about north of New York City). The studio  has 2 control rooms, and a small tracking/overdub room. Studio A is built around a Sony OXF-R3 Oxford mixing console and Pro Tools HD Xcel 3 system with Accel cards with 96 channels. Studio B is built around a Yamaha DM-2000 console and standard mixing outboard that he prefers: Eventide SP-2016's (for sparkly, long reverb on vocals, and on ballads), Manley, and GML EQ's, AMS's, EMT Plates, and the Sony 3348HR). At Barking Doctor, he has mixed projects for Brian McKnight, Michael Jackson, LeAnn Rimes, Eric Clapton, The Corrs, BB King, Brandy, Marc Anthony, Jennifer  Lopez, Monica Naranjo, Michael McDonald, and Mariah Carey. Recently, he's currently working on new projects for Pharrell Williams. Grammy Awards and Nominations. Winner – Latin Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album 2017 • Jei Beibi Winner – Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album 2014 • Girl Nomination – Grammy Award for Album of the Year 2014 • Girl Winner – Grammy Award for Album of the Year 2013 • Random Access Memories Winner – Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronica Album 2013 • Random Access Memories Winner – Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical 2013 • Random Access Memories Winner – Grammy Award for Record of the Year  2013 • Get Lucky Winner – Grammy Award for Best pop Instrumental Album 2013 • Steppin’ Out Winner – Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical 2006 • Back Home Winner – Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album 2007 • The Road To Escondido Winner – Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album 2004 • No Es lo Mismo Winner – Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year 2004 • No Es Lo Mismo Winner – Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year 2004 • No Es lo Mismo Winner – Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album 2008 • The Road to Escondido Winner – Latin Grammy Award for Best Engineered  Album 2004 • No Es lo Mismo Winner – Latin Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Album 2004 • No Es lo Mismo Winner – Latin Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album 2001 • Arrasando Nomination – Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Variety Or Music Series Or Special Or Animation 2005 • Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival (Great Performances) Emmy Award nomination. Guzauski was nominated in 2005 for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety or Music Series or Special or Animation, for his mixing for Eric Clapton in "Great Performances; Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival" (1972), along with Elliot  Scheiner, Ed Cherney, and Neil Dorfsman.