Ronald Prent
{{Short description|Dutch audio engineer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}
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| birth_name = Ronald Prent
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| occupation = {{hlist|Mix engineer|recording engineer|record producer}}
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{{hlist|Rammstein|Simple Minds|Def Leppard|the Scorpions|Tina Turner|Mink DeVille|Freddie Mercury|Herbert Grönemeyer}}
| spouse = Darcy Proper
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- Hard rock
- {{nowrap|heavy metal}}
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Ronald Prent is a Dutch mix engineer best known for pioneering in surround sound mixing and immersive audio. In 2019, Prent received a Grammy nomination in the category of “Best Immersive Audio Album” for the Simple Minds album Symbol.{{Cite web |title=Ronald Prent|url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/ronald-prent/243479 |access-date=21 February 2025 |website=grammy.com}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=7 December 2018 |title=2019 Grammys: The full list of winners and nominees |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/grammy-2019-winners-nominations |access-date=21 March 2025 |website=Los Angeles Times}}{{Cite magazine |last=Lynch |first=Joe |date=7 December 2018 |title=Grammys 2019 Nominees: The Complete List |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2019-grammy-nominees-full-list-8489045/ |access-date=21 March 2025 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=7 December 2018 |title=Grammy Awards Nominations: The Complete List |url=https://variety.com/2018/music/news/grammy-nominations-2019-complete-list-1203082934/ |access-date=21 March 2025 |website=Variety}}{{Cite web |author=T. H. R. Staff |date=10 February 2019 |title=2019 Grammy Winners: Complete List |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/grammys-2019-winners-live-updating-list-1178567/ |access-date=21 March 2025 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}}{{Cite news |date=29 July 2016 |title=Win Simple Minds New Gold Dream |url=https://www.proquest.com/barcode?accountid=6749&groupid=115764 |url-status=usurped |access-date=21 February 2025 |newspaper=Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)}}{{Cite news |title=Win a six-disc Simple Minds box set |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1807461067|access-date=21 February 2025|newspaper=Daily Express; London|date=29 July 2016|id={{ProQuest|1807461067}} }}{{Cite book |last=Toulson |first=Rob |title=The Dreaded Mix Sign-Off: Handing Over to Mastering |publisher=Routledge |year=2016 |isbn=9781315646602 |edition=1st}} He has also worked with Rammstein,{{Cite web |title=Now there's an alternative to the world's ultimate analogue music console... |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Audio/Mix/IDX/90s/Mix-1999-10-IDX-109.pdf#search=%22ronald%20prent%22 |access-date=21 February 2025}} The Scorpions, Mink DeVille, Udo Lindenberg, Tina Turner. Def Leppard, Freddie Mercury, Queensryche, Celine Dion, Dire Straits, the Police, and Herbert Grönemeyer.{{Cite web |last=Cornell |first=Jonathan |date=1 November 2021 |title=Q&A with immersive trailblazer Ronald Prent |url=https://immersiveaudioalbum.com/qa-with-immersive-trailblazer-ronald-prent-grammy-nominated-producer-engineer/ |access-date=21 February 2025}}
Career
Prent worked at Galaxy Studios in Belgium, where he met mastering engineer Darcy Proper.{{Cite web |last=Kenny |first=Tom |date=1 October 2012 |title=Wisseloord Studios |url=https://www.mixonline.com/recording/wisseloord-studios-367548 |access-date=21 March 2025 |website=Mixonline |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Within Temptation: Producing Black Symphony |url=https://www.soundonsound.com/people/within-temptation-producing-black-symphony |access-date=21 March 2025 |website=www.soundonsound.com}}{{Cite news |last=Foster |first=Richard S. |title=Off to meet the Wizards...Proof that pros really do care |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Hi-Fi/Hi-Fi-045.pdf |access-date=21 March 2025 |work=hi fi+ |pages=126}} Five years later, Prent and Proper moved to Holland where they rebuilt the Wisseloord Studios in the Netherlands.{{Cite web |last=Keyes |first=Karrie |date=6 November 2017 |title=When music and science collide - Darcy Proper |url=https://soundgirls.org/when-music-and-science-collide-darcy-proper/ |access-date=21 February 2025 |website=SoundGirls.org |language=en-US}}
Prent was called in to work with Rammstein by Jacob Hellner, producing their first album, Herzeleid, in his studio in Stockholm. Communications over the band’s sound were at an impasse, with the six members of Rammstein speaking German and Russian, and Hellner speaking Swedish and English.{{Relevance inline|discuss=Did Prent work with Rammstein on this album or not? The statement that there was an "impasse" makes it sound like it did not work out. If that's the case, this information isn't encyclopedic.|date=March 2025}}{{Cite web |last=Everley |first=Dave |date=4 July 2019 |title=Rammstein: The birth of a legend |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/rammstein-the-birth-of-a-legend?utm_source=chatgpt.com |access-date=21 February 2025 |website=louder |language=en}}{{Primary source inline|date=March 2025}}
Ronald Prent is a speaker specializing on immersive audio for professional sound panels including AES,{{Cite web |title=AES 2023 Immersive Audio Academy 7th Edition |url=https://aes2.org/events-calendar/aes-2023-immersive-audio-academy-7th-edition/ |access-date=21 February 2025 |website=AES}}{{Third-party inline|date=March 2025}}{{Cite web |title=Immersive Audio Academy 2 |url=https://aes2.org/events-calendar/immersive-audio-academy-2/ |access-date=21 February 2025 |website=AES}}{{Third-party inline|date=March 2025}} Inside Blackbird Studio Mixing series, and others.{{Cite web |title=Mixing |url=https://insideblackbird.com/channel/studio/engineering/engineering-mixing |access-date=21 February 2025 |website=insideblackbird.com}}{{Third-party inline|date=March 2025}}
Blabbermouth highlights Prents' expertise in mixing the recordings of artists including Helloween, Hollyhell, Manowar, Primal Fear, and Gotthard.{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=16 December 2024 |title=Michael Kiske loves having 'two and a half' lead singers in Helloween: 'I never wanna do it differently anymore' |url=https://blabbermouth.net/news/michael-kiske-loves-having-two-and-a-half-lead-singers-in-helloween-i-never-wanna-do-it-differently-anymore |access-date=21 February 2025 |website=BLABBERMOUTH.NET |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=12 June 2012 |title=Holyhell to release 'Darkness Visible - The Warning' EP |url=https://blabbermouth.net/news/holyhell-to-release-darkness-visible-the-warning-ep |access-date=21 February 2025 |website=blabbermouth.net |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=23 March 2012 |title=First Taste Of New Manowar Album |url=https://blabbermouth.net/news/first-taste-of-new-manowar-album |access-date=21 February 2025 |website=blabbermouth.net |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=12 January 2007 |title=Primal Fear to enter studio in early February |url=https://blabbermouth.net/news/primal-fear-to-enter-studio-in-early-february#google_vignette |access-date=21 February 2025 |website=blabbermouth.net |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=30 January 2007 |title=Gotthard begins recording new album |url=https://blabbermouth.net/news/gotthard-begins-recording-new-album/ |access-date=21 February 2025 |website=blabbermouth.net |language=en}}
In 2019, Prent moved to U.S. and joined Valhalla Studios NY along with Darcy Proper. Valhalla Studios installed the first analog immersive console in the world, which Prent mixes on and Proper masters from.{{Cite web |last=Harvey |first=Steve |date=31 March 2020 |title=Valhalla Studios Jumps into Analog Immersive Mixing |url=https://www.mixonline.com/recording/valhalla-studios-analog-immersive-mixing |access-date=26 February 2025 |website=Mixonline |language=en-US}}{{Primary source inline|date=March 2025}}
Personal life
References
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External links
- {{Official website|properprentsound.com}}
- {{AllMusic|id=mn0001017137}}
- {{Discogs artist|151882}}
- {{IMDb name|nm5299420}}
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Category:Dutch audio engineers