Mark Linett

{{short description|American record producer and audio engineer}}

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Mark Linett is an American record producer and audio engineer who is best known for his remixing and remastering of the Beach Boys' catalog.{{cite web |title=Mark Linett - Remixing The Beach Boys |url=https://www.soundonsound.com/people/mark-linett-remixing-beach-boys |website=Sound on Sound |date=July 2019}} Since 1988, he has been the engineer for Brian Wilson's recordings.{{Cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/152324-the-beach-boys-the-smile-sessions-2495907154.html|title=The Beach Boys: The SMiLE Sessions, PopMatters|first=Thomas|last=Britt|date=December 15, 2011 |accessdate=April 22, 2021}} He has also worked with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, Los Lobos, Rickie Lee Jones and Randy Newman.{{cite book|last=Owsinski|first=Bobby|title=The recording engineer's handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Emke4izOwVsC&pg=PR13|access-date=May 30, 2010|date=November 1, 2004|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=978-1-932929-00-3|page=xiii}} Linett is based in Glendale, California, where he owns a home studio, Your Place or Mine Recording.{{cite web |last1=Baccigaluppi |first1=John |last2=Crane |first2=Larry |title=Mark Linett |url=https://tapeop.com/interviews/47/mark-linett/ |website=Tape Op |date=May–June 2005}}

Linett created the first true stereo mix of the Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds{{cite AV media notes |first=Mark |last=Linett |author-link=Mark Linett |chapter=Notes on Recording and Mixing |title=The Pet Sounds Sessions |others=The Beach Boys |year=1997 |publisher=Capitol Records |type=Booklet|chapter-url=http://albumlinernotes.com/Recording_Mixing_Notes.html}} and has co-produced nearly all of the band's archival releases, including The Pet Sounds Sessions (1997), Endless Harmony Soundtrack (1998), Hawthorne, CA (2003), and The Smile Sessions (2011){{cite web|title=Beach Boys Producers Alan Boyd, Dennis Wolfe, Mark Linett Discuss 'Made in California' (Q&A)|url=http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2013/09/04/made-in-california-producers-alan-boyd-dennis-wolfe-mark-linett-beach-boys-interview/2/|work=Rock Cellar Magazine|date=September 4, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930143358/http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2013/09/04/made-in-california-producers-alan-boyd-dennis-wolfe-mark-linett-beach-boys-interview/2/|archive-date=30 September 2013|url-status=dead}} as well as the Feel Flows (2021) and Sail On Sailor (2022) box sets. In addition to earning three{{update inline|inaccurate=yes|reason=The Smile Sessions earned Linett a third Grammy in 2013.|date=November 2021}} Grammy Awards, he was nominated for Best Engineered Album for his work on Brian Wilson Presents Smile (2004).{{cite magazine|last=Christman|first=Ed|title=Beach Boys Engineer Mark Linett Talks 'Smile' Release|magazine=Billboard |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/472565/beach-boys-engineer-mark-linett-talks-smile-release|access-date=|date=March 11, 2011}} In 2014, Linett appeared as Beach Boys' engineer Chuck Britz in the Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy.{{cite news|last1=O'Sullivan|first1=Michael|title=Finding Beach Boy Brian Wilson|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/finding-beach-boy-brian-wilson/2015/05/27/eaeec0f6-03ac-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=May 29, 2015}}

To create remixes of the Beach Boys' catalog, Linett uses ProTools as his DAW of choice, although he keeps analog tape machines for the purpose of transferring to digital.{{cite web |author1=Bonzai |title=Interview with Mark Linett |url=https://barefootsound.com/audio/interview-with-mark-linett/ |website=Barefoot Sound |date=April 20, 2014}} Since 2000, producer Alan Boyd, the band's archive manager, has been his longtime partner for such projects.{{cite web |author1=Taber Times |title='Feel Flows' — The Beach Boys re-imagined this summer |url=http://www.tabertimes.com/blog/2021/07/15/feel-flows-the-beach-boys-re-imagined-this-summer/ |website=Taber Times |access-date=July 18, 2021 |date=July 15, 2021}}