Mastering Engineer Barry Grint

August 15, 2025

Barry Grint wearing Audeze LCD-MX4 headphones in the studio

Audeze Artist Profile

Barry Grint

One of the most celebrated mastering engineers in the industry, Barry ‘Bazza’ Grint started his career in 1984 and founded Alchemy in 1998, after working at Abbey Road, Porky’s Mastering, Tape One, and the legendary Trident Studios. Barry is currently working on nurturing new talent at AIR Mastering. Barry is credited with around 100 Billion streams including over 2 Billion for his first worldwide hit Aha – Take On Me and more recently over 2 Billion for Dua Lipa – No Lie. He is equally respected for his vinyl mastering including several half speed releases for artists such as Radiohead. His classic projects include Madonna, Prince, Oasis, Bon Jovi, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Paul McCartney. In his 40 year career, Barry has always used big speakers, until now!
 

About the Headphones

 
"For 40 years I have never used headphones for mastering. This has recently changed– my Audeze headphones are remarkable, I have never experienced such correlation with my main speakers in any headphone before."
- Barry Grint
Audeze LCD-MX4 headphones laying on a mixing machine table
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