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Tony Maserati
Skalpovich in Studio with Tony Maserati (pictured left)
Skalpovich in Studio with Tony Maserati (pictured left)
Background information
Genres
OccupationMixing engineer
Years active1987–present
Websitehttp://tonymaserati.com

Tony Maserati is an American record producer and audio engineer specializing in mixing. He was involved in the development of the New York R&B and hip-hop scene in the 1990s, working with Mary J. Blige, Notorious B.I.G., Puff Daddy, and Queen Latifah.[1] Since then he has worked on Grammy nominated projects with Black Eyed Peas, Beyoncé (who he won Best R&B Album with on her 2003 Dangerously in Love), Jason Mraz, Robin Thicke, and Usher. Maserati won a Latin Grammy in 2006 for his work on Sérgio Mendes’s Timeless. He has been nominated for a total of 10 Grammys, with four for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.[2]

In the 2020s, his work has included mixes on Beyoncé's GRAMMY winning Cowboy Carter (2025 Album of the Year and Best Country Album), RAYE's 2026 album This Music May Contain Hope and hit single "Where Is My Husband!", and other releases with Jimin, Jessie Reyez, Big Sean, Renée Rapp, Lola Young, Tate McRae, Selena Gomez, and Tomorrow X Together among others.


Early life

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Maserati began college at Northeastern University before transferring to Boston’s Berklee College of Music in the early 1980s.[3] He originally majored in Composition, but switched to the Music Production and Engineering major when it was first offered in 1983.[4] While at Berklee, he learned to mix by doing the sound for the Marsells.[3] He graduated with an MA in 1986.[5]

Career

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New York hip hop and R&B

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Maserati went to work in New York City at Sigma Sound Studios where he assisted Glenn Rosenstein. Rosenstein introduced him to Full Force, who helped Maserati learn to arrange and mix.[6] While at Sigma Sound he worked with Whitney Houston and James Brown,[7] and was able to mix his first song, Samantha Fox's "Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)". He credits much of the musical sound he developed on his work at Berklee and the influence of Full Force.[6]

In 1989, Maserati went independent, specializing in mixing, setting him apart at the time since most musical engineers focused on production.[8] During his time at Sigma Sound, Maserati had befriended studio managers around the city, and he contacted them requesting work on R&B and Hip-Hop.[1] While most mixers worked on rock, Maserati claims he focused on R&B and Hip-Hop because it “was the only place where innovation was happening.”[6]

In the 1990s, Maserati was introduced to many major New York R&B and hip-hop artists and mixed albums for Busta Rhymes, Mary J. Blige, The Notorious B.I.G., Faith Evans, and Queen Latifah among others.[6] Maserati regards these years as very collaborative, and he allowed the various artists to work with his analogue equipment to help develop their desired sound.[6] According to Mix magazine, Maserati provided the definitive sound of New York hip-hop in the form of heavy bass lines while also providing high fidelity sounds on the other end of the scale.[9] According to Sound on Sound, the result was a "huge low end and a smooth, velvety high,"[7] and which Mix labelled an "outhouse on the bottom, penthouse on the top".[9]

The success of the New York R&B and hip-hop sound propelled Maserati into a widely known and well-established mixer.[1] He received his first four Grammy nominations in 2003, with two nominations for being a part of "Crazy in Love" by Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z and "Where is the Love" by the Black Eyed Peas featuring Justin Timberlake, both of which were up for Record of the Year. He was also nominated for his own work in the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for the Black Eyed Peas' Elephunk.[4] He won Best R&B Album that year on Beyoncé's Dangerously in Love. The following year he was nominated again for Album of the Year on Usher's Confessions.[2]

Throughout this period, Maserati worked mostly with analogue consoles rather than digital tools.[5] This required enormous amounts of space and specialized equipment. To fit it all in, Maserati built his own studio, Una Volta, in a barn in upstate New York.[10] In 2008, he began working with his long-time collaborator Jason Mraz on the album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things, for which Maserati was nominated for a Grammy in Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.[11]

Los Angeles

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While his upstate barn provided the needed space for his equipment, Maserati disliked being so far from the city and the intimate collaborations of the studios.[5] Around the same time, the music scene was decamping from New York to the West Coast.[10] In 2010, Maserati moved to Los Angeles where he was able to get large amounts of space while still being within the city.[5] However, he left most of his bulky analogue equipment in New York, which pushed him to adopt more of the digital equipment for mixing and automation.[10]

In 2011, Maserati and songwriter Stefan Skarbek co-founded Mirrorball Entertainment, LLC in North Hollywood. Maserati worked with studio designer and acoustician Martin Pilchner to create modular studios in which each room could be redesigned to meet the specific needs of the production team renting the space.[12] Maserati and Skarbek offered their production services in the space, allowing whole albums to be produced, published, and recorded on site.[8] The integrated approach had Maserati directly mixing major tracks and overseeing the remaining tracks mixed by his assistants and mentees.[5] Maserati is a client with Pulse Recording.[13]

Grammy Awards

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Winner

Nominee

Selected discography

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Year Artist Title Role
2026 RAYE This Music May Contain Hope Mixing
2026 Nick Jonas Sunday Best Mixing
2026 The Pussycat Dolls "Club Song" Mixing
2025 Billy Idol "77 feat. Avril Lavigne" Mixing
2025 Billy Idol Dream Into It Mixing
2024 Beyoncé Cowboy Carter Mixing
2024 Jennifer Lopez "If You Had My Love(2024 Rework)" Mixing
2024 Jimin "Slow Dance" Mixing
2024 Jessie Reyez & Big Sean "Shut Up" Mixing
2024 LE SSERAFIM EASY Mixing
2023 Jensen McRae Are You Happy Now Mixing
2023 Renée Rapp Everything to Everyone Mixing
2023 TWICE & Boys Like Girls "I Can't Stop Me" Mixing
2022 PSY "That That" (feat. Suga of BTS) Mixing
2022 Rosa Linn SNAP Mixing
2022 Tomorrow X Together "Good Boy Gone Bad" Mixing
2021 Lola Young Bad Tattoo Mixing
2021 Lola Young Fake Mixing
2021 Stray Kids NOEASY Mixing
2021 Tate McRae "Darkest Hour" Mixing
2020 Chloe x Halle Ungodly Hour Mixing
2020 Mike Posner Operation: Wake Up Mixing
2020 Selena Gomez Rare Mixing
2019 Anitta Ugly Mixing
2019 Beyoncé The Lion King: The Gift Mixing
2019 Carly Rae Jepsen "The Sound" Mixing
2018 TWICE What is Love? Mixing
2018 BØRNS Blue Madonna Mixing
2017 TWICE Signal Mixing
2017 2 Chainz Bailan feat. Pharrell Mixing
2017 BØRNS Sweet Dreams Mixing
2017 BØRNS Faded Love Mixing
2017 Calum Scott Dancing on my Own (Tiesto Remix) Mixing
2017 Chase Atlantic Chase Atlantic Mixing
2017 Echosmith Dear World
2017 Ed Sheeran & Beyonce Perfect Mixing
2017 Fergie Double Dutchess Mixing
2017 Jaira Burns Ugly Mixing
2017 James Blunt The Afterlove Mixing
2017 K. Flay Everywhere is Somewhere Mixing
2017 Leon Else What I won't Do Mixing
2017 Maggie Rogers Dog Years
2017 Mansionz Wicked feat. G-Eazy Mixing
2017 Nick Jonas Home Mixing
2017 Nick Jonas Find You Mixing
2017 Selena Gomez Only You Mixing
2017 Sia To be Human Mixing
2017 Sofia Reyes feat. Prince Royce Sólo Yo
2017 Tinashe Flame Mixing
2017 Weezer Feels like Summer Mixing
2016 Andra Day Amen Mixing
2016 Cerrone Red Lips Mixing
2016 Clairy Brown Pool Mixing
2016 Demi Lovato Body Say Mixing
2016 Fergie M.I.L.F.$ Mixing
2016 Fitz & the Tantrums Fitz & the Tantrums Mixing
2016 Gallant Ology Mixing
2016 Gwen Stefani This Is What the Truth Feels Like Mixing
2016 Keith Urban Ripcord Mixing
2016 Lawson Perspective Mixing
2016 Mike Posner At Night, Alone Mixing
2016 Nick Jonas Last Year was Complicated Mixing
2016 Parachute Wide Awake Mixing
2016 Santigold 99 Cents Mixing
2016 Sawyer Fredericks A Good Storm Mixing
2016 Shawn Mendes Illuminate Mixing
2015 Andra Day Cheers to the Fall Mixing
2015 Conrad Sewell All I Know Mixing
2015 Fleur East Love, Sax & Flashbacks Mixing
2015 Katherine McPhee Hysteria Mixing
2015 Nico & Vinz Cornerstone Mixing
2015 Robert DeLong In the Cards Mixing
2015 Sabrina Carpenter Eyes Wide Open Mixing
2015 Selena Gomez Revival Mixing
2015 Selena Gomez Good for You feat. A$AP Rocky
2015 Shawn Mendes Handwritten Mixing
2014 Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics Mixing
2014 Cimorelli Renegade Mixing
2014 Cris Cab Where I Belong Mixing
2014 Jason Mraz Yes! Mixing
2014 Jesse McCartney In Technicolor Mixing
2014 Jessie J Sweet Talker Mixing
2014 Lea Michele Louder Mixing
2014 Madeleine Peyroux Keep me in Your Heart for a While: The Best of Madeleine Peyroux Mixing
2014 Nick Jonas Nick Jonas Mixing
2014 Nico & Vinz Black Star Elephant Mixing
2014 Santana Corazon Mixing
2013 Ariana Grande Yours Truly Mixing
2013 Avril Lavigne Avril Lavigne Mixing
2013 Backstreet Boys In a World Like This Mixing
2013 Beyonce Beyonce Mixing
2013 Cher Closer to the Truth Mixing
2013 Daughtry Baptized Mixing
2013 Eliza Doolittle In your Hands Mixing
2013 James Blunt Moon Landing Mixing
2013 Keith Urban Fuse Mixing
2013 Lady Gaga ARTPOP Mixing
2013 Little Mix Salute Mixing
2013 Natalia Kills Trouble Mixing
2013 Robin Thicke Blurred Lines Mixing
2013 The Wanted Word of Mouth Mixing
2012 Alicia Keys Girl on Fire Mixing
2012 Jason Mraz Love is a Four Letter Word Mixing
2011 Andy Grammer Andy Grammer Mixing
2011 Girls' Generation The Boys Mixing
2011 Jason Derulo Future History Mixing
2011 Javier Colon Come through for You Mixing
2011 Madeleine Peyroux Standing on the Rooftop Mixing
2011 Robbie Robertson How to Become Clairvoyant Mixing
2011 Robin Thicke Love after War Mixing
2009 Alicia Keys The Element of Freedom Mixing
2009 Chris Brown Graffiti Mixing
2009 Colbie Caillat Breakthrough Mixing
2009 Pixie Lott Turn it Up Mixing
2009 Whitney Houston I Look to You Mixing
2008 Britney Spears Circus Mixing
2008 Craig David Officially Yours Mixing
2008 Jason Mraz We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. Mixing
2008 Jordan Sparks No Air Mixing
2008 Kerli Love is Dead Mixing
2008 The Pussycat Dolls Doll Domination Mixing
2007 David Bowie Outside/Heathen Additional Production, Mixing, Production Remix, Programmer
2007 Kelly Rowland Ms. Kelly Mixing
2007 Macy Gray Big Mixing
2007 Talib Kweli Eardrum Mixing
2007 Will.i.am Songs about Girls Mixing
2006 Fergie Big Girls Don't Cry Mixing
2006 Paris Hilton Paris Mixing
2006 Paris Hilton Stars are Blind Mixing
2006 Sergio Mendes Timeless Mixing
2005 Mary J. Blige The Breakthrough Mixing
2005 Ol' Dirty Bastard The Definitive Ol' Dirty Bastard Story Mixing
2005 Rob Thomas Something to Be Mixing
2005 The Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business Mixing
2005 The Pussycat Dolls PCD Mixing
2004 Bruce Hornsby Halcyon Days Mixing
2004 John Legend Get Lifted Mixing
2004 Kylie Minogue Body Language Mixing
2004 Usher Confessions Mixing
2003 Beyoncé Dangerously in Love Mixing
2003 Jessica Simpson In This Skin Mixing
2003 Jessica Simpson Sweetest Sin Mixing
2003 Jonny Lang Long Time Coming Mixing
2003 Kelly Clarkson Thankful Mixing
2003 Mary J. Blige Love & Life Mixing
2003 R. Kelly Chocolate Factory Mixing
2003 The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk Mixing
2002 Baha Men Move it Like This Mixing
2002 Christina Aguilera Stripped Mixing
2002 Kelly Rowland Simply Deep Mixing
2002 Marc Anthony Mended Mixing
2002 Mario Mario Mixing
2002 Queen Latifah She's a Queen: A Collection of Greatest Hits Engineer
2002 Sean Paul Dutty Rock Mixing
2001 Alicia Keys Songs in A Minor Mixing
2001 Angie Stone Mahogany Soul Mixing
2001 Brian McKnight Superhero Mixing
2001 Christina Milian Christina Milian Mixing
2001 Jennifer Lopez J.Lo Mixing
2001 Jessica Simpson Irresistible Mixing
2001 Mary J. Blige No More Drama Mixing
2000 Lil' Kim Notorious K.I.M. Engineer
2000 Mya Fear of Flying Mixing
2000 R. Kelly TP-2.com Mixing
2000 Ricky Martin Sound Loaded Mixing
2000 Ruff Ryders Ryde or Die, Vol. 2 Mixing
1999 Angie Stone Black Diamond
1999 Jennifer Lopez On the 6 Mixing
1999 Jessica Simpson Sweet Kisses Mixing
1999 K-Ci & JoJo It's Real Mixing
1999 Puff Daddy Forever Engineer
1999 Vitamin C Vitamin C Mixing
1998 Faith Evans Keep the Faith Mixing
1998 R. Kelly R. Mixing
1997 Busta Rhymes When Disaster Strikes Engineer, Mixing
1997 Mariah Carey Butterfly Mixing
1997 Mase Harlem World Mixing
1997 Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death Mixing
1997 Puff Daddy & the Family No Way Out Mixing
1995 Faith Evans Faith Evans Engineer, Mixing
1994 Mary J. Blige My Life Engineer, Mixing
1993 David Bowie Black Tie White Noise Producer, Mixing
1993 Queen Latifah Black Reign Engineer
1992 Mary J. Blige What's the 411? Engineer, Mixing, Remixing
1990 C+C Music Factory Gonna Make You Sweat Engineer
1989 Patti LaBelle Be Yourself Engineer, Mixing
1988 James Brown I'm Real Engineer, Editing, Mixing
1987 Whitney Houston Whitney Assistant Engineer

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Interview: Mixer - Tony Maserati". Speakhertz - Talk Audio. 2014-06-26. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  2. ^ a b c "Tony Maserati". GRAMMY.com. 2017-11-28. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  3. ^ a b Shea, Andrea (January 24, 2014). "Berklee Alum Behind Robin Thicke's Grammy Nominated 'Blurred Lines'". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  4. ^ a b Hochschild, Rob (February 20, 2004). "News | Berklee College of Music". www.berklee.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-12-06. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  5. ^ a b c d e Tingen, Paul (October 2013). "Tony Maserati: Inside Track".
  6. ^ a b c d e "Red Bull Music Academy Daily". daily.redbullmusicacademy.com. January 5, 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  7. ^ a b Tingen, Paul (March 2007). "Secrets Of The Mix Engineers: Tony Maserati". Sound on Sound. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
  8. ^ a b "Tony Maserati - Mix with the Masters". Mix with the Masters (in French). 2014-03-06. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
  9. ^ a b Drowdy, Maureen (January 12, 2001). "Tony Maserati". Mixonline. Mixonline.com. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
  10. ^ a b c Jackson, Blair (October 10, 2009). "Tony Maserati". Mixonline. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  11. ^ "Tony Maserati on Mixing with Jason Mraz". June 1, 2008.
  12. ^ Brown, Janice (May 2, 2013). "Tony Maserati & Bedrock.LA Teaming up to Build Modern Day Brill Building". Sonicscoop.
  13. ^ Staff. "Tony Maserati". Pulse Music Group. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
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