Michael Brauer

Michael H. Brauer is an American mix engineer.

He received a Grammy for "Best Pop Vocal Album" for his work on John Mayer's Continuum, "Best Alternative Album" for Coldplay's Parachutes, and also "Best Rock Album" for Coldplay's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. He has worked with artists such asGrandaddy, Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, Prefab Sprout, Deacon Blue, James Brown, Aerosmith, Jeff Buckley, David Byrne, Tony Bennett, Billy Joel, Rod Stewart, Grayson Hugh, Paul McCartney, Ben Folds, Pet Shop Boys, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, KT Tunstall, Martha Wainwright, Pete Murray and Natalia Lafourcade.

Brauer is known for his self named implementation of multi-bus compression, referred to as 'Brauerizing', in which various instrumental sections of a mix are sent to different compressors in an ABCD implementation. He isnt the first to mix this way as most mix engineers use this kind of multi-bussing. His vocals are usually sent to separate compressors in parallel. These are each adjusted for their own timbral and tonal quality, and are then blended by ear into the stereo mixbus to achieve the desired result.