To fit it all in, Maserati built his own studio, Una Volta, in a barn in upstate New York. This required enormous amounts of space and specialized equipment. Throughout this period, Maserati worked mostly with analogue consoles rather than digital tools. The following year he was nominated again for Album of the Year on Usher’s Confessions. He won Best R&B Album that year on Beyoncé’s Dangerously in Love. He was also nominated for his own work in the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for the Black Eyed Peas’ Elephunk. He received his first four Grammy nominations in 2003, with two nominations for being a part of “Crazy in Love” by Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z and “Where is the Love” by the Black Eyed Peas featuring Justin Timberlake, both of which were up for Record of the Year. The success of the New York R&B and hip-hop sound propelled Maserati into a widely known and well-established mixer. According to Sound on Sound, the result was a "huge low end and a smooth, velvety high," and which Mix labelled an “outhouse on the bottom, penthouse on the top.” According to Mix magazine, Maserati provided the definitive sound of New York hip-hop in the form of heavy bass lines while also providing high fidelity sounds on the other end of the scale.
Maserati regards these years as very collaborative, and he allowed the various artists to work with his analogue equipment to help develop their desired sound. Blige, The Notorious B.I.G., Faith Evans, and Queen Latifah. As a result, Maserati worked with every major New York R&B and hip-hop artist of the 1990s, including mixing albums for Busta Rhymes, Mary J. Puff Daddy brought Maserati into Bad Boy Records and, Maserati claims, Puff Daddy “locked me down” for the following six years. Maserati was introduced to Puff Daddy in the early-90s through the producer Devante Swing. While most mixers worked on rock, Maserati claims he focused on R&B and Hip-Hop because it “was the only place where innovation was happening.” During his time at Sigma Sound, Maserati had befriended studio managers around the city, and he contacted them requesting work on R&B and Hip-Hop. In 1989, Maserati went independent, specializing in mixing, setting him apart at the time since most musical engineers focused on production.
FAITH EVANS YOU GETS NO LOVE PULSEMUSIC FULL
While at Sigma Sound he worked with Whitney Houston and James Brown, and was able to mix his first song, Samantha Fox’s “ Naughty Girls (Need Love Too).” He credits much of the musical sound he developed on his work at Berklee and the influence of Full Force. Rosenstein introduced him to Full Force, who helped Maserati learn to arrange and mix. Maserati went to work in New York City at Sigma Sound Studios where he assisted Glenn Rosenstein.
0 kommentar(er)
