1. Bruce Swedien was an American recording engineer, mixing engineer and record producer.
15 Facts About Bruce Swedien
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Bruce Swedien was widely known for his work with Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Paul McCartney and Barbra Streisand.
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Bruce Swedien won 5 Grammy Awards for Best Engineered Album for his work with Jackson and Jones.
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Bruce Swedien was born on April 19,1934, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Bruce Swedien's father bought him a disc recording machine when he was 10 and a professional tape recorder after graduating high school.
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Bruce Swedien studied electrical engineering with a minor in music at the University of Minnesota.
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Bruce Swedien transformed the space into the Swedien Recording Studio, where he produced and recorded music for several years with artists such as Art Blakey and Herbie Mann.
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Bruce Swedien first met Quincy Jones when Jones was vice president for Mercury Records in Chicago.
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Bruce Swedien moved to Brunswick Records where he ran and developed the label's studios and sound in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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Bruce Swedien was known for pioneering the "Acusonic Recording Process", pairing up microphones together on vocals and instruments, a technique enabled by synchronizing several multi-track recorders with SMPTE timecode.
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Bruce Swedien wrote about his experience working with Jackson in a 2009 book titled In the Studio with Michael Jackson.
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Bruce Swedien worked on the scores for Night Shift, The Color Purple and Running Scared.
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Bruce Swedien held classes at the Swedish National Radio for practicing sound engineers.
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Bruce Swedien died on November 16,2020, at the age of 86, from surgery complications for a broken hip caused by a fall as well as COVID-19.
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Bruce Swedien won 5 Grammy Awards and was nominated 12 times.