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{{short description|American mastering engineer}}{{BLP sources|date=March 2009}}Gavin Lurssen is an American mastering engineer. He owns Lurssen Mastering in Hollywood, California.Mix Profiles Lurssen Mastering Facility in Hollywood {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604155509mixonline.com/recording/mastering/audio_lurssen_mastering/index.html |date=2011-06-04 }} for MixOnline.com. Retrieved December 1, 2007. Lurssen’s Grammy Award–winning work includes Raising Sand, a collaborative album featuring Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, and the soundtrack for the Coen Brothers film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?. He has also mastered recordings by Tom Waits, Sheryl Crow, Loretta Lynn, Matchbox Twenty, T-Bone Burnett, Jennette McCurdy and many others. Lurssen is an alumnus of Berklee College of Music.WEB, 2007-12-01, Lurssen Mastering,www.mixonline.com/recording/lurssen-mastering-365925, 2020-06-12, Mixonline, en-US,

Discography

This is a partial discography of recordings mastered by Gavin Lurssen.“>

Albums{| class“wikitable” style@text-align:center;”

! Year! Title! Artist! Additional information|1979|Chicago 16

Chicago (band)>Chicago|

|1993

Live (James Taylor album)>Live|James Taylor|

|1993

I’m Alive (Jackson Browne album)>I’m Alive|Jackson Browne|

|1993

Stepping Out (Diana Krall album)>Stepping Out|Diana Krall|

|1994|I Love Everybody|Lyle Lovett||1994

Jamie Walters (album)>Jamie Walters|Jamie Walters|

|1995|Leo Kottke Live|Leo Kottke||1995|Only Trust Your Heart|Diana Krall||1995

Feels Like Home (Linda Ronstadt album)>Feels Like Home|Linda Ronstadt|

|1995|Evil Stig|Evil Stig||1996|Looking East|Jackson Browne||1996

Peace on Earth (Kitaro album)>Peace on Earth|Kitarō|

|1996|Sell, Sell, Sell

David Gray (British musician)>David Gray|

|1996

That’s Right (album)>That’s Right|George Benson|

|1996|(Rockin’ down the Highway: The Wildlife Concert)|The Doobie Brothers||1996|This Conversation Seems Like a Dream|Kip Winger||1996|Acoustic Traveller|John McEuen||1996|En Pleno Vuelo|Marco Antonio Solís||1997

Vulnerable (Marvin Gaye album)>Vulnerable|Marvin Gaye|

|1997|More Best of Leonard Cohen|Leonard Cohen||1997

When the Bough Breaks (album)>When the Bough Breaks	Bill Ward (musician)>Bill Ward|

|1997|Last of the Sharpshooters

Down by Law (band)>Down by Law|

|1997|Plastique Valentine|The Humpers||1998

Live at the Roxy (Social Distortion album)>Live at the Roxy|Social Distortion|

|1998|Transcendental Highway|Colin Hay||1998|Walking in Avalon|Christopher Cross||1998

The Living End (The Living End album)>The Living End|The Living End|

|1998|Happy Pills|Candlebox||1998|No Substance|Bad Religion||1998|Guilty ‘til Proved Innocent!|The Specials||1998|Waste of Mind|Zebrahead||1999|The Fundamental Elements of Southtown|P.O.D.||1999

Synergy (Dave Weckl Band album)>Synergy|Dave Weckl|

|1999|Fire in the City of Automatons|No Knife||1999|Edge of Forever|Lynyrd Skynyrd||1999

Libido (Buck-O-Nine album)>Libido|Buck-O-Nine|

|1999

Brave New World (Styx album)>Brave New World	Styx (band)>Styx|

|1999|Meson Ray|The Ernies||1999|Live at The Woodlands|Crystal Lewis||2000|The New America|Bad Religion||2000

U.S. Crush (album)>U.S. Crush|U.S. Crush|

|2000|Christmas Time Again|Lynyrd Skynyrd||2000

Fearless (Crystal Lewis album)>Fearless|Crystal Lewis|

|2000|Holiday! A Collection of Christmas Classics|Crystal Lewis||2000

Playmate of the Year (album)>Playmate of the Year|Zebrahead|

|2001|Just Like Gravity

CPR (band)>CPR|

|2001|Beautiful Midnight|Matthew Good Band||2001

Fan Dance (album)>Fan Dance	Sam Phillips (musician)>Sam Phillips|

|2001

Humanistic (album)>Humanistic	Tommy Walter>Abandoned Pools|

|2002

Blood Money (Tom Waits album)>Blood Money|Tom Waits|

|2002

Beeline (album)>Beeline|Peter Case|

|2002|Light a Match, For I Deserve to Burn|The Beautiful Mistake||2002|Santa Claus Lane|Hilary Duff||2002

Andalucia (album)>Andalucia|Tito & Tarantula|

|2003|Diamonds On the Inside|Ben Harper||2004

Real Gone (album)>Real Gone|Tom Waits|

|2006

Peeping Tom (Peeping Tom album)>Peeping Tom	Peeping Tom (band)>Peeping Tom|

|2007|Exile on Mainstream|Matchbox Twenty|| 2007| Raising Sand| Allison Krause/Robert Plant| Grammy Award (Album of the Year, Record of the Year)|2008|Approaching Normal|Blue October||2009|Songs for a Breakup, Vol. 1|Fitz and the Tantrums|| 2010

The Union (Elton John and Leon Russell album)>The Union| Elton John/Leon Russell|

| 2013| Dimensionaut| Sound of Contact|| 2013| ...Like Clockwork| Queens of the Stone Age|| 2014| Oko| Lena Fayre||2014|Sonic Highways|Foo Fighters|| 2015| B| Diamante Eléctrico| Latin Grammy Award (Best Rock Album)| 2015

Breathless (Terence Blanchard album)>Breathless| Terence Blanchard|

|2016|A Sailor’s Guide to Earth|Sturgill Simpson|Grammy Award (Best Country Album)|2018

Live (Terence Blanchard album)>Live| Terence Blanchard

|2023|In Times New Roman...| Queens of the Stone Age“>

Soundtracks{| class“wikitable” style@text-align:center;”

! Year! Title! Artist! Additional information|2016|Money Monster|Henry Jackman/Dominic Lewis||2016|Kung Fu Panda 3|Hans Zimmer||2015|Creed (soundtrack)|Ludwig Göransson||2015|(Kingsman: The Secret Service (soundtrack))|Henry Jackman/Matthew Margeson||2013|Inside Llewyn Davis (soundtrack)|Various Artists||2013|Pacific Rim (soundtrack)|Ramin Djawadi||2012|(The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond)|Various Artists||2011|Cars 2|Michael Giacchino|| 2008| Slumdog Millionaire (soundtrack)| A. R. Rahman| Academy Award (Best Song and Best Soundtrack)|2008|A Perfect Place|Mike Patton||2007|Good Luck Chuck|Various Artists||2007

Halloween (2007 film)>Halloween|Various Artists|

|2006|Cars (soundtrack)|Various Artists|| 2005| Transamerica (soundtrack)| Various Artists| Academy Award (Best Song)|2005

Bratz: Rock Angelz (soundtrack))|Various Artists|

|2004

The Ladykillers (2004 film)>The Ladykillers|Various Artists|

| 2003| Cold Mountain (soundtrack)| Various Artists| Academy Award Nominee (Best Original Score)| 2003| A Mighty Wind| Various Artists| Academy Award Nominee (Best Song)|2002|The Santa Clause 2|Various Artists||2002|Lizzie McGuire (soundtrack)|Various Artists||2000|O Brother, Where Art Thou? (soundtrack)|Various Artists||2000

Coyote Ugly (film)>Coyote Ugly|Various Artists|

|1996

James and the Giant Peach (film)>James and the Giant Peach|Randy Newman|

|1994

Backbeat (film)>Backbeat|Don Was|

Reissues {| class“wikitable” style@text-align:center;”

!Year!Title!Artist!Additional information|1993|Bridge over Troubled Water|Simon & Garfunkel|MasterSound Edition|1994

What’s Going On (Marvin Gaye album)>What’s Going On|Marvin Gaye|Motown Master Series

|1994|Friday Night in San Francisco

Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin (musician)>John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucía|MasterSound Edition

|1994|Couldn’t Stand the Weather

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble (band)>Double Trouble|MasterSound Edition

|1994

Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)>Wish You Were Here|Pink Floyd|MasterSound Edition

|1994

In Our Lifetime (Marvin Gaye album)>In Our Lifetime|Marvin Gaye|Motown Master Series

|1994|Blow by Blow|Jeff Beck|MasterSound Edition|1994|(Stevie Wonder Presents: Syreeta)|Syreeta Wright||1995|Farmer’s Market Barbecue

Count Basie Orchestra>The Count Basie Big Band|

|1995|Basie Jam|Count Basie||1995|Pickin’ the Blues|Doc Watson and Merle Watson||1995|Silk Degrees|Boz Scaggs|MasterSound Edition|1998

I Want You (Marvin Gaye album)>I Want You|Marvin Gaye|

|1998

Trouble Man (album)>Trouble Man|Marvin Gaye|

|1998|Let’s Get It On|Marvin Gaye||2003

Paid in Full (album)>Paid in Full|Eric B. & Rakim|Deluxe Edition

|2005

Follow the Leader (Eric B. & Rakim album)>Follow the Leader|Eric B. & Rakim|Expanded Edition

|2005|Endtroducing.....|DJ Shadow|Deluxe Edition|2005|Hellbilly Deluxe|Rob Zombie|Deluxe Edition|2008|Whoa, Nelly!|Nelly Furtado|Special Edition|2009

Let Love Rule (Lenny Kravitz album)>Let Love Rule|Lenny Kravitz|20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

|2014| The Apple Years 1968–75| George Harrison

Paul Hicks (musician)>Paul Hicks & Reuben Cohen

|2018| All In 1978-2018

Toto (band)>Toto|With Elliot Scheiner & Reuben Cohen

Assistant {| class“wikitable” style@text-align:center;”

!Year!Title!Artist!Additional information|1993|Crimson and Blue|Phil Keaggy||1995

Temptation (Holly Cole album)>Temptation|Holly Cole|

|1995

I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times (album)>I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times|Brian Wilson|

|1995

Go to the Top (album)>Go to the Top	Hitomi (singer)>Hitomi|

|1996|The Road to Ensenada|Lyle Lovett|

Awards

Grammy Awards

• 2002: Album of the Year - O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack
• 2004: Best Historical Album - (Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey)
• 2009: Album of the Year - Raising Sand (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss)

Latin Grammy Awards

• 2010: Best Engineered Album: Distinto (Diego Torres)
• 2015: Best Rock Album: B (Diamante Eléctrico)

References

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External links

• Official site for Lurssen Mastering
• [{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p223900|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic Credits]

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