Andy Wallace (producer)

{{short description|American record producer}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}}

Andy Wallace (born 1947) is an American record producer and audio and mixing engineer.{{cite magazine |last=Brandle |first=Lars |date=May 13, 2021 |title=Hipgnosis Songs Buys Nirvana, Aerosmith Mixing Engineer Andy Wallace's Royalties |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9571900/hipgnosis-songs-buys-andy-wallace-catalog/ |url-status=live |magazine=Billboard |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513130701/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9571900/hipgnosis-songs-buys-andy-wallace-catalog/ |archive-date=May 13, 2021 |access-date=July 10, 2021 |quote=Grammy Award-winning producer, mixer and engineer Andy Wallace}}{{cite web |url={{AllMusic |class=artist |id=mn0000031718 |tab=credits |pure_url=yes}} |title=Andy Wallace {{!}} credits |website=AllMusic |last1=Kurutz |first1=Steve |access-date=July 10, 2021 |quote=Andy Wallace: Audio Engineer; Producer; Mixing; Mixing Engineer}} Over the years, he focused exclusively on mixing.{{cite web |url=https://mixwiththemasters.com/wallace |title=Andy Wallace |author= |date=n.d. |website=Mix With The Masters |access-date=July 27, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124212013/https://mixwiththemasters.com/wallace |archive-date=January 24, 2021}} Wallace is known for his "sonically influential presence on the current music scene", and has "helped to make some of the most brutal, aggressive music released and also some of the most beautiful. And he did it all while lying in bed with the flu!".{{cite web |url={{AllMusic |class=artist |id=mn0000031718 |tab=biography |pure_url=yes}} |title=Andy Wallace {{!}} Artist Biography |website=AllMusic |last1=Kurutz |first1=Steve |access-date=July 10, 2021}}

Career

Wallace was born in New Jersey.{{cite magazine |last=Colen |first=Glen |date=September 2001 |title=Andy Wallace: From Nirvana to Jeff Buckley |url=https://tapeop.com/interviews/25/andy-wallace/ |url-status=live |magazine=Tape Op |location=Portland |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210307000053/https://tapeop.com/interviews/25/andy-wallace/ |archive-date=March 7, 2021 |access-date=March 7, 2021}} In 1974, he began his career as a chief engineer in his own studio in Los Angeles. After a few years of moderate success, he returned to New York City during the emergence of hip-hop in the early 1980s.

Following the breakout success of the 1986 production of the Run-DMCAerosmith collaboration on "Walk This Way" with Rick Rubin, Wallace went on to work with The Cult, Slayer, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Sepultura, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Sonic Youth, Rage Against the Machine, Guns N' Roses, Linkin Park, Paul McCartney, Avenged Sevenfold, and many others.

In February 1999, Wallace shared a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical with Tchad Blake and Trina Shoemaker, for their work on Sheryl Crow's album The Globe Sessions.{{cite magazine |author= |date=March 6, 1999 |title=The Winners Of The 41st Grammy Awards |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8g0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA99 |magazine=Billboard |volume=111 |issue=10 |page=99 |issn=0006-2510 |access-date=March 7, 2021}}

As of May 2021, over 120 million album units had been sold worldwide that contained a credit to Wallace.{{cite news |last=Murray |first=Stassen |date=May 13, 2021 |title=Hipgnosis buys catalog from Grammy-winning producer Andy Wallace |url=https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/hipgnosis-buys-catalog-from-grammy-winning-producer-andy-wallace/ |url-status=live |work=Music Business Worldwide |location=UK |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513151713/https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/hipgnosis-buys-catalog-from-grammy-winning-producer-andy-wallace/ |archive-date=May 13, 2021 |access-date=July 10, 2021}}

Discography (selection)

e = engineered;

m = mixed;

p = produced

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Awards and nominations

=Grammy Awards=

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!scope="row" rowspan="1"| 1994

| Rage Against the Machine

| Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="1"|{{cite magazine |author= |date=January 15, 1994 |title=36th Annual Grammy Awards |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FwgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA67 |magazine=Billboard |volume=106 |issue=103 |page=67 |issn=0006-2510 |access-date=July 10, 2021}}

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!scope="row" rowspan="2"| 1999

| rowspan="2"| The Globe Sessions

| Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

| {{won}}

| rowspan="1"|{{cite magazine |author= |date=March 6, 1999 |title=1999 Grammy Awards |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8g0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA99 |magazine=Billboard |volume=111 |issue=10 |page=99 |issn=0006-2510 |access-date=July 10, 2021}}

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| Album of the Year

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="1"|{{cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/andy-wallace/7869 |title=Grammy Award Results for Andy Wallace |author= |date=n.d. |website=Grammy Awards |access-date=July 10, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122012913/https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/andy-wallace/7869 |archive-date=January 22, 2021}}

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!scope="row" rowspan="1"| 2003

| C'mon, C'mon

| Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

| {{nom}}

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!scope="row" rowspan="1"| 2004

| Natural Selection

| Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="1"|{{cite news |author= |date= |title=Grammy Award Winners |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/arts/music/08grammy-list.html |url-status=live |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308152110/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/arts/music/08grammy-list.html |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |access-date=July 10, 2021}}

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!scope="row" rowspan="1"| 2006

| Daft Punk Is Playing at My House

| Best Dance Recording

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="1"|{{cite news |author= |date=December 8, 2005 |title=48th annual Grammy nominations lis, part 1 |url=https://variety.com/2005/music/markets-festivals/48th-annual-grammy-nominations-list-part-1-1117934222/ |url-status=live |work=Variety |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126201654/https://variety.com/2005/music/markets-festivals/48th-annual-grammy-nominations-list-part-1-1117934222/ |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |access-date=July 10, 2021}}

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!scope="row" rowspan="1"| 2009

| Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends

| Album of the Year

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="1"|{{cite news |author= |date=December 4, 2008 |title=Winners: 51st Grammy Awards |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/winners-51st-grammy-awards/ |url-status=live |work=CBS News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801061738/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/winners-51st-grammy-awards/ |archive-date=August 1, 2020 |access-date=July 10, 2021}}

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