The technical credits for Taylor Swift’s Red, pasted from Wikipedia (when it says “assistant” here it seems to refer to “assistant engineer”). I don’t know if this is an especially large number of people for a big budget major label album but her records certainly sound like they cost money. I am consistently amazed at how much you can hear the “computer” in the acoustic instruments on her records. The signal path for a strummed acoustic guitar seems to stretch from here to the moon, which isn’t good or bad but does give it a specific quality. Obviously this is a long list because there were many sessions in different cities and each song more or less had its own team. But it does suggest that a decent-sized swath of the audio engineering community had a better year in terms of income because she was cutting a record.
- Sam Bell - engineering
- Jeff Bhasker - producer, programming
- Matt Bishop - editing, engineering
- Drew Bollman - assistant
- J. Bonilla - programming
- Scott Borchetta - executive producer
- Delbert Bowers - assistant
- Chad Carlson - engineering
- Nathan Chapman - producer, engineering
- Tom Coyne - mastering
- Leland Elliott - assistant
- Eric Eylands - assistant
- Greg Fuess - assistant
- Chris Galland - assistant
- Serban Ghenea - mixing
- Matty Green - assistant
- John Hanes - mixing engineer
- Sam Holland - engineering
- Dann Huff - producer
- David Huff - digital editing
- Michael Ilbert - engineering
- Tyler Johnson - guitar engineer
- Jacknife Lee - engineering, producer, programming
- Steve Marcantonio - engineering
- Manny Marroquin - mixing
- Max Martin - producer
- Seth Morton - assistant
- Justin Niebank - mixing
- Chris Owens - assistant
- John Rausch - engineering
- Matt Rausch - engineering
- Tim Roberts - assistant
- Eric Robinson - engineering
- Pawel Sek - engineering
- Shellback - producer, programming
- Jake Sinclair - engineering
- Mark “Spike” Stent - mixing
- Taylor Swift - producer
- Andy Thompson - engineering
- Butch Walker - producer
- Hank Williams - mastering
- Brian David Willis - engineering
- Dan Wilson - producer
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