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Dave Pensado | |
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| Origin | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Mix engineer |
| Years active | 1970s-present |
Dave Pensado is a Grammy Award-winning mix engineer.[1] His career began in Atlanta in the 1970s and 1980s doing live and studio sound engineering. He has lived in Los Angeles since 1990.[1]
He mixes between 200 and 250 songs a year at Larrabee Studios in Los Angeles.[1] When recording he usually records at Echo Bar Studios in North Hollywood.[citation needed]
On September 12, 2011, Pensado started a weekly show called Pensado's Place, together with Herb Trawick, his manager and business partner.[citation needed] The first part of the show is about audio engineering techniques; Pensado evaluates - sometimes assisted or replaced by a guest speaker - plugins, outboard gear like microphones, and demonstrates how to improve the mix. The second part is an interview of a mixing engineer, master engineer, producer, label CEO or singer-songwriter.[2][failed verification][better source needed]
On July 20, 2013, Pensado and Trawick hosted an event at Vintage King Los Angeles called "Pensado Gear Expo 2013".[3] More than one thousand people from around the world attended. 22-time Grammy Award-winning engineer, Al Schmitt, Steven Slate, Alex da Kid, Ryan Hewitt, and Robert Duncan were a few of the featured guests of the expo.
- ^ a b c Tingen, Paul (January 2007). "Secrets Of The Mix Engineers - Dave Pensado". Sound on Sound. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
- ^ "Pensado's Place". Pensadosplace.tv. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
- ^ "Backbeat: Pensado's Place Web Series and Vintage King Audio Launch Gear Expo 2013 in L.A." Billboard. Retrieved 22 July 2013.