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Kim Rosen
Rosen at Knack Mastering in Ringwood, NJ
Background information
Birth nameKimberly A. Dumas
Born1980 (age 43–44)
OriginRingwood, New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationAudio mastering engineer

Kimberly A. Rosen (née Dumas; born c. 1980) is an American Grammy-nominated audio mastering engineer. Since 2009, she owns and runs a mastering studio in Ringwood, New Jersey.

Career

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Rosen grew up in the western Massachusetts town of Northampton. With an interest in pursuing a career in the music industry, she began an internship at West West Side Music in Tenafly, New Jersey. There, she assisted chief mastering engineer Alan Douches from 2002 through 2009. While assisting at West West Side Music, Rosen began taking on her own mastering projects and was promoted to staff mastering engineer in 2004.[1] As a mastering engineer at West West Side Music, Rosen mastered a wide range of projects for artists such as Franz Ferdinand, Dashboard Confessional, Jeremy Enigk, and La Dispute.[2]

In 2009, Rosen started her audio mastering studio, Knack Mastering, in Ringwood, New Jersey. Acoustician Chris Pelonis designed her mastering room.[1]

Rosen participated in speeches on mastering and audio industry-related panels at the AES Convention,[3] Summer NAMM,[4] the PotLuck Audio Conference (Tucson, Arizona), and the Welcome to 1979 Recording Summit (Nashville, Tennessee).

In October 2017, Rosen and her husband Dave launched Whitestone Audio Instruments, a company that designs and produces professional analog processing equipment for audio engineers. Their first product, the P331 Tube Loading Amplifier, was unveiled at the 2018 NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA.[5]

Rosen is an active member and was elected as a Governor of the New York Chapter of the Recording Academy (Grammys) in 2018.[6]

Work

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Kimberly Rosen works both for independent artists and labels and major label record companies and producers. Her most notable releases include works of Bonnie Raitt, Wynonna Judd, Joe Henry, Superdrag, Jeff Bridges, Amy Helm, and Title Fight.

In 2014, she worked on the remake of the Johnny Cash album Bitter Tears, published by Sony Masterworks, with the participation of Emmylou Harris, Steve Earl, Gillian Welch, The Milk Carton Kids and Kris Kristofferson.[7] In 2015, she mastered the rearrangement of "Forever Young", theme of the television series Parenthood, performed by Rhiannon Giddens and Iron & Wine for its series finale.[8]

Rosen was nominated for Best Engineered album (non-classical) for Bonnie Raitt's Dig In Deep (2016) and Milk Carton Kids' All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do (2018).

Several albums mastered by Kimberly Rosen have received Grammy Award nominations as well as wins. The Bonnie Raitt album "Just Like That" received four nominations and three wins, including the Grammy Award for Song of the Year (2023). Aimee Mann's Mental Illness (2017) won the Best Folk Album Grammy;[2] as did the Rhiannon Giddens album "They're Calling Me Home" (2022).

Grammy nominations and awards

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Year Album artists Work Category Result
2017 Bettye Lavette Worthy Best Blues Album Nominated
2018 Bonnie Raitt Dig In Deep Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical Nominated
2019 Aimee Mann Mental Illness Best Folk Album Won
2020 Victor Wainwright Victor Wainwright and The Train Best Contemporary Blues Album Nominated
2020 Teresa James And The Rhythm Tramps Here In Babylon Best Contemporary Blues Album Nominated
2020 The Milk Carton Kids All The Things That I Did And All The Things That I Didn't Do Best Engineered Album Non-Classical Nominated
2021 Rhiannon Giddens I'm On My Way Best American Roots Performance Nominated
2022 Nnenna Freelon Time Traveller Best Jazz Vocal Album Nominated
2022 Rhiannon Giddens They're Calling Me Home Best Folk Album Won
2022 Rhiannon Giddens Avalon Best American Roots Song Nominated
2022 Allison Russell Outside Child Best Americana Album Nominated
2022 Allison Russell Nightflyer Best American Roots Performance Nominated
2022 Allison Russell Nightflyer Best American Roots Song Nominated
2023 Bonnie Raitt Just Like That Song of the Year Won[9]
2023 Bonnie Raitt Just Like That Best Americana Album Nominated[9]
2023 Bonnie Raitt Made Up Mind Best Americana Performance Won[9]
2023 Bonnie Raitt Just Like That Best American Roots Song Won[9]
2023 Cheryl B. Engelhardt The Passenger Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album Nominated[9]

Selected discography

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Partial discography[10][11]
Year Artist Album Credited
True Love ¡Pas Net! Mastering
Darius Koski What Was Once Is by and Gone Mastering
Jank Versace Summer Mastering
Uke-Hunt Uke-Hunt Mastering
Shirk Circus This Band Will Destroy Your Life Mastering
The Riverwinds The Riverwinds Mastering
Crystal Yates The Other Side Mastering
Colin Lake The Ones I Love Mastering
The Deadmen The Deadmen Mastering
Julia Rainer Spirits Mastering
Seryn Shadow Shows Mastering
Dorian Allen Running Back to You Mastering
Ben Shea Red Sunshine Mastering
ALSO Music Belongs In The Background Mastering
Turnover Magnolia Mastering
Loretta Hagen Lucky Stars Mastering
Seldan In Transit Mastering
Muncie Girls From Caplan to Belsize Mastering
Southern Cross Down Below Mastering
Koji Crooked in My Mind Mastering
Danl Crooked Mile Mastering
Choir Vandals Collection Mastering
Lewis & Clarke Blasts of Holy Birth Mastering
Birds of Night Birds of Night Mastering
2003 The Escape Engine Celebrity Role Model Assistant Engineer
2004 The Warriors War Is Hell Mastering Assistant
2005 Isadora They'll Never Take Us Alive Mastering Assistant
2005 Calico System They Live Mastering Assistant
2005 The Burning Season The Haze of Infatuation Mastering
2005 Dirty Faces Superamerican Mastering
2005 Tim Reale Story Mastering
2005 Paint It Black Paradise Mastering
2005 The Fire Still Burns Keeping Hope Alive Mastering
2005 Collapsar Collapsar Mastering
2006 McGill Manring Stevens What We Do Mastering
2006 Anagram The Lights Went Up Mastering
2006 Torture Storm Alert Editing
2006 Lifetime Somewhere in the Swamps of Jersey Assistant Mastering Engineer
2006 Bad Wizard Sky High Assistant Mastering Engineer
2006 Wuthering Heights Shadow Cabinet Mastering
2006 Flying Donuts Renewd Attack Mastering Assistant
2006 Incantation Primordial Domination Mastering Assistant
2006 Radio 4 Packing Things Up On the Scene [Edit] Mastering
2006 River City High Not Enough Saturday Nights Mastering
2006 To Live and Shave in L.A. Noon and Eternity Mastering
2006 Music for Girls Music for Girls Mastering
2006 Dirty Faces Get Right with God Mastering
2006 Josef K Entomology Mastering
2006 Android Lust Devour, Rise and Take Flight Mastering Assistant
2006 DK Limb Defy Define Definition Assistant
2006 Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth Sequencing
2006 Barricade Be Heard Mastering
2006 Antilove 6/6/2006 Assistant Engineer
2007 Pain Principle Waiting for the Flies Mastering Assistant
2007 Nakatomi Plaza Unsettled Assistant, Mastering
2007 Amandine Solace in Sore Hands Mastering
2007 Uke of Spaces Corners County So Far on the Way Mastering
2007 Alina Simone Placelessness Mastering
2007 Nurse & Soldier Marginalia Mastering
2007 Kill the Camera Kill the Camera Mastering
2007 The Teeth You're My Lover Now Mastering
2007 Jason Dove We Should Be Together Mastering
2007 John Bustine Waltzes & Pleas Mastering
2007 The Recession Time, Arithmetic and Other Elementary Subjects Not Well Learned Mastering
2007 Sean Madigan Hoen The Liquor Witch Mastering
2007 The Eclectic Collective The Flux Mastering
2007 One False Move Some Kind of Healing Mastering
2007 Weird Owl Nuclear Psychology Mastering
2007 Telenovela Star Love Lust Sci-Fi & Monsters Mastering
2007 Avec Lines Mastering
2007 Saints Never Surrender Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst Mastering
2007 Capital Homefront Mastering
2007 The High Strung Get the Guests Mastering
2007 Bring Back the Guns Dry Futures Mastering
2007 D. Jay Buggy Baloo Mastering
2007 Mustache! Babes Say the Hottest Things Mastering
2008 Jami Sieber Unspoken Mastering
2008 Final Drive Under the Overpass of America Mastering
2008 I Am The Heat The Future Doesn't Need Us Mastering
2008 The Muckrakers/ Muckrakers The Concorde Fallacy Mastering
2008 La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of The River Between Vega & Altair Mastering
2008 Franz Nicolay Major General Mastering
2008 Lydia Illuminate Mastering
2008 Destroy Everything Freedom of Speech Means Talk is Cheap Mastering
2008 Osaka Popstar Rock'em O-Sock'em Live! Mastering Assistant
2008 Doug Paisley Doug Paisley Mastering
2008 Saints Never Surrender Brutus Mastering
2008 Century Black Ocean Mastering
2009 Copernicus disappearance Mastering
2009 Spheric Universe Experience Unreal Mastering
2009 Kava Kon Tiki for the Atomic Age Mastering
2009 Higher Giant The First Five Mastering
2009 Acheron The Final Conflict: Last Days Of God Mastering
2009 Parasites Solitary Mastering
2009 Kelly Carmichael Queen Fareena Mastering
2009 Knot Feeder Light Flares Mastering
2009 The Peekers Life in the Air Mastering
2009 Various Artists Just Like Heaven: A Tribute to the Cure Mastering
2009 United States Instant Everything, Constant Nothing Mastering
2009 Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons Mastering
2009 Big Ned Big Ned Mastering
2010 Smoke or Fire The Speakeasy Mastering
2010 Elk City House of Tongues Mastering
2011 Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After Mastering
2011 Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Sing in Japanese Mastering
2011 Title Fight Shed Mastering
2011 Zachary Cale Noise of Welcome Mastering
2011 Mother of Mercy IV: Symptoms of Existence Mastering
2011 Star Fucking Hipsters From the Dumpster to the Grave Mastering
2011 Cobra Skulls Agitations Mastering
2012 Various Artists Vans Warped Tour '12: 2012 Tour Compilation Mastering
2013 Anthony Green Young Legs Mastering
2013 Various Artists Vans Warped Tour 2013 Compilation Mastering
2013 Foxing The Albatross Mastering
2013 Anthony Green Young Legs Mastering
2014 Foxing The Albatross Mastering
2014 Get Dead Bad News Mastering
2014 Various Artists Warped Tour 2014 Compilation Mastering
2014 Braid No Coast Mastering
2014 Various Artists Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited Mastering
2014 Jeff Bridges / Jeff Bridges & the Abiders Live Mastering
2014 Sarah Jaffe Don't Disconnect Mastering
2014 Tigers Jaw Charmer Mastering
2014 Wallflower Summer Daze Mastering
2015 Bettye LaVette Worthy Mastering
2015 Various Artists Warped Tour 2015 Compilation Mastering
2015 Nai Harvest Hairball Mastering
2015 Tom McBride Columbia Mastering
2016 Wynonna Judd / Wynonna & the Big Noise Wynonna & the Big Noise Mastering
2016 Relick Twin House Mastering
2016 Glen Phillips Swallowed By The New Mastering
2016 Billy Bragg / Joe Henry Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad Mastering
2016 Real Midnight Birds of Chicago Mastering
2016 Anthony Green Pixie Queen Mastering
2016 Chely Wright I Am the Rain Mastering
2016 Various Artists Warped Tour 2016 Compilation Mastering
2016 Get Dead Honesty Lives Elsewhere Mastering
2016 Bonnie Raitt Dig in Deep Mastering
2016 Jenny Gillespie Cure for Dreaming Mastering
2016 Sprowt 2003 Mastering
2017 Dead Heavens Whatever Witch You Are Mastering
2017 The Barr Brothers Queens of the Breakers Mastering
2017 Rozwell Kid Precious Art Mastering
2017 Sarah Jaffe Bad Baby Mastering
2017 Direct Hit! / Pears Human Movement Mastering
2017 Various Artists Warped Tour 2017 Compilation Mastering
2018 Amy Helm This Too Shall Light Mastering
2018 The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound Sessions Mastering
2018 Steep Canyon Rangers Out in the Open Mastering
2018 Victor Wainwright Victor Wainwright and the Train Mastering
2018 Brady Rymer / Brady Rymer & the Little Band That Could Revvin' Up the Reindeer Mastering
2018 Cicada Rhythm Everywhere I Go Mastering
2018 Birds Of Chicago Love In Wartime Mastering
2018 Birds Of Chicago American Flowers Mastering
2018 Former Member Old Youth Mastering
2018 Joe Henry Thrum Mastering
2018 Eric Lindell Revolution In Your Heart Mastering
2018 Belly Dove Mastering
2018 Sam Phillips World On Sticks Mastering
2018 Christine Rosander Been a Long Time Mastering
2018 Two Medicine Astropsychosis Mastering
2018 The Milk Carton Kids All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do Mastering
2019 Foy Vance To Memphis Mastering
2019 E.B. The Younger To Each His Own Mastering
2019 Rhiannon Giddens There Is No Other Mastering
2019 Carla Olson / Todd Wolfe The Hidden Hills Sessions Mastering
2019 Danny Lynn Wilson Peace Of Mind Mastering
2019 Over the Rhine Love & Revelation Mastering
2019 Matt Andersen Halfway Home by Morning Mastering
2019 Foy Vance From Muscle Shoals Mastering
2019 Doug Seegers A Story I Got to Tell Mastering

References

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  1. ^ a b Alvin, Craig; Crane, Larry (July–August 2015). "Kim Rosen: of Knack Mastering". Tape Op. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Knack Mastering Bio". Knackmastering.com. Archived from the original on August 27, 2018. Retrieved November 20, 2018.
  3. ^ "143rd Aes Convention Presenters: Kim Rosen". Audio Engineering Society. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  4. ^ "Women in Audio Sound Off". NAMM. May 4, 2017. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  5. ^ Jeffery, Muller (January 24, 2018). "NAMM Show News". Insideaudio.net.
  6. ^ "New York Board". Grammy.com. Retrieved November 20, 2018.
  7. ^ Spencer, Neil (September 27, 2014). "Look Again to the Wind review – homage to Johnny Cash's radical 60s album". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  8. ^ "Rhiannon Giddens and Iron & Wine perform Bob Dylan's "Forever Young" on NBC's "Parenthood" series finale". Nonesuch Records. January 29, 2015. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  9. ^ a b c d e https://www.grammy.com/news/2023-grammy-nominations-complete-winners-nominees-list
  10. ^ "AllMusic Credits". AllMusic.
  11. ^ "AllMusic - Kimberly Dumas (Maiden Name)". AllMusic.
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