
Two time Grammy nominee and two time Latin Grammy winner Bruce Sugar has worked with many music legends over a 30 year career in Los Angeles. Bruce has engineered and mixed projects for Ringo Starr, Joe Walsh, Ozzy Osbourne, and has recorded everyone from Mick Jagger to Paul McCartney. Recently Bruce has specialized in mixing immersive music in the Atmos format.

Sofía Rei is a vocalist, composer, producer, and educator who fuses South American folk with jazz, pop, classical, and electronic music. She has released seven acclaimed albums and toured extensively worldwide. Her collaborators include John Zorn, Bobby McFerrin, Marc Ribot, Susana Baca, and Geoffrey Keezer, with whom she earned a Grammy nomination. Based in New York since 2005, Rei is a professor at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute. A passionate advocate for South American music, her work reflects a bold exploration of cultural identity and sonic innovation.

Eli Crews works primarily out of his Hudson Valley studio Spillway Sound. He started working professionally in record production in the Bay Area in the late 1990s, later serving as the head engineer at Figure 8 Recording in Brooklyn, NY from 2014-2020. He recorded and/or mixed two Grammy-nominated albums (Laurie Anderson, Tony Trischka), and he was an engineer for the Oscar-nominated score for Everything Everywhere All at Once by the band Son Lux. Other artists he has worked with include Tune-Yards, Gotye, and Wilco guitarist Nels Cline.

Grammy Award-Winner Engineer and Multi-Platinum Producer Snipe Young, coined “The Sauce Man” by Theron “Neff U” Feemster, has either engineered, written, produced for, and/or sound-designed for the likes of Nicki Minaj, Flo Rida, Sofia Reyes, Kendrick Lamar, Ghostface Killah, The Game, Dr. Dre, Beyoncé, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber, Nickelodeon, ABC’s Black-ish, Oceans 8, Fox’s Empire and Star, Eamon, ZZ Ward, Vans, Hoka, and Lincoln.
May 16, 2019
Tape Op's Geoff Stanfield reviews the LCD-X, LCD-3, iSINE20 and Deckard for pro audio use.
"For jaded music listeners, the Audeze line of headphones may be the cure for reconnecting with music and audio. Audeze is not a new name to audiophiles. The company has been making high-quality products for many years but have more recently caught the attention of some folks in the pro audio community, and with good reason."
"... mix engineers have adopted the LCD-X, and after my own trial runs at using them for mixing, I can see why. They are not overly flattering or hyped, and they translate accurately back and forth between my studio monitors and the 'real world.'"
"The only issue I have with Audeze products is that they have made listening on pretty much any other headphone system a letdown. Like everything else in pro audio, high-quality comes at a price; and in this case, it is worth it."
Read more at https://tapeop.com/reviews/gear/119/isine-20-in-earphones/