Moderated by Ainjel Emme is a musician, songwriter, and producer. She has spent the past 20 years immersed in the study and practice of record production, shadowing world-class audio engineers, working in professional studios, and making records via her Los Angeles-based production house, Block of Joy.


Mastering Engineers
Jett Galindo – Mastering Engineer at The Bakery
Jett began her engineering career in the world-renowned Avatar Studios in New York as the recording engineer for producer Jerry Barnes. In 2013, Jett joined The Mastering Lab family as the sole right-hand man to pioneer mastering engineer and Grammy Technical Achievement awardee Doug Sax. Under the steady mentorship of the late Sax, Jett burgeoned to become the newest mastering engineer in The Mastering Lab roster. In 2014, Jett’s work with Brazilian rock band Jota Quest garnered the group a Latin GRAMMY nomination for Best Brazilian Contemporary Pop Album.
Jett Galindo carries on the legacy left behind by her late mentor, mastering legend Doug Sax (The Mastering Lab). She now works as a mastering engineer alongside Eric Boulanger at The Bakery, located at the Sony Pictures Lot in Culver City, Los Angeles.


Anna Frick Mastering Engineer at Airshow Mastering
Anna is a mastering engineer and the restoration center manager at Airshow Mastering in Boulder, Colorado. Her work encompasses studio albums, live recordings, reissues, and compilations across an array of formats, old and new, and a wide variety of genres and styles, from bluegrass and folk-influenced acts to rock and New Age projects. Legends like Ralph Stanley and Doc Watson, exciting contemporaries such as Billy Strings and GRAMMY-nominated Wood & Wire, and important blues and jazz archival recordings have all benefited from her uncanny ear and deft touch.
For Airshow’s restoration center she oversees all archival digitization projects. She mastered Third Man Records’ GRAMMY-winning box set, The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, as well as having mastered thousands of hours’ worth of historical recordings from university archives and collections across the country.
Anna holds a degree in Music Industry Studies from the University of Colorado at Denver. She is a graduate of the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Leadership Bluegrass program, an AES member, board governor and Producers & Engineers Committee Co-Chair of the Recording Academy – San Francisco Chapter, and chapter head for Colorado’s branch of SoundGirls.org.

Piper Payne – Mastering Engineer at Infrasonic
Piper is a mastering engineer based out of Oakland, CA and Nashville, TN, where she works on albums for independent artists and major labels.
In Spring of 2019 Piper joined the famed Infrasonic Mastering team, merging her successful studio, Neato Mastering, with the Nashville-based company, owned by Pete Lyman.
Piper is a Trustee of the Recording Academy (GRAMMYs) and she is Co-Chair of the P&E Wing Steering Committee. She is a Governor of the Audio Engineering Society and she is the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the AES’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee as well as an active member of Women's Audio Mission and she serves on the Board of SoundGirls.org.


Links to resources referenced in the webinar
SoundGirls Profile on Anna Frick [ Ссылка ]
SoundGirls Profile on Jett Galindo [ Ссылка ]
Ainjel Emme on Proof in Music [ Ссылка ]
Piper Payne [ Ссылка ]
iZotope article Vinyl mastering [ Ссылка ]
Mastering Engineer Katie Tavini [ Ссылка ]
Critical listening sites:
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SoundGirls has a few free subscriptions to SoundGym [ Ссылка ]
Subtractive EQ in mastering:
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SADiE [ Ссылка ] it's PC only
Usisrc.org
Jett Galindo on iZotope [ Ссылка ]
Women in Vinyl www.womeninvinyl.com
Darcy Proper [ Ссылка ]
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17 Great Sounding Masters [ Ссылка ]
SoundGirls has online mentoring, there currently is a waitlist but we will place you as soon as we can.[ Ссылка ]
SoundGirls has a few free subscriptions to SoundGym [ Ссылка ]
Impostor Syndrome [ Ссылка ]
Find and Hire Women Audio Engineers The EQL Directory makeiteql.com
Dave Rat's Mighty Headphone Quest [ Ссылка ]

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