For Episode 10 of the UNSUNG podcast MixedByJocelin and Mirek Stiles were joined by the legendary Alan Meyerson in Los Angeles at the revered Just For The Record Recording Studios.
The 2x GRAMMY-winning mix engineer has mixed and recorded the scores for some of the biggest movies in the world. His credits include Interstellar (2014), Lion King (1994), Dune: Part One (2021), Dune: Part Two (2024), The Dark Knight (2008), Pirates of the Caribbean (2003), Shrek (2001), Inception (2010), Gladiator (2000) and many, many more.
Outside of his work as a scoring mixer Alan mixed some very successful records in the 1980s from the likes of New Order, Etta James, and Bryan Ferry.
Our family at Abbey Road are also over the moon to welcome Alan into the faculty at the recently announced Abbey Road Institute LA. He joins Rafa Sardina (who will launch the LA campus), Barry Rudolph, John Boylan, Vanessa Garde and many more.
In this episode Alan talks about his musical beginnings, discovering the studio, working on jingles for TV and Radio commercials, his early career as an engineer in New York, hanging out with John Lennon at the Hit Factory, losing his studio at Larrabee to Dr. Dre, meeting Hans Zimmer, imposter syndrome, turning 64 at Abbey Road, the Brass from ‘Inception’ (2010), how he approaches a mix, working on film scores vs game scores, mixing in surround, music budgets in film and selling his analog gear.
