Kim Rosen (mastering engineer)
Kimberly A. Rosen is an American Grammy-nominated audio mastering engineer. Since 2009, she owns and runs a mastering studio in Ringwood, New Jersey.
Career
Rosen grew up in the western Massachusetts town of Northampton. With an interest in pursuing a career in the music industry, she began an internship at West West Side Music in Tenafly, NJ. There, she assisted chief mastering engineer Alan Douches from 2002 through 2009. While assisting at West West Side Music, Rosen began taking on her own mastering projects and was promoted to staff mastering engineer in 2004. As a mastering engineer at West West Side Music, Rosen mastered a wide range of projects for artists such as Franz Ferdinand, Dashboard Confessional, Jeremy Enigk, and La Dispute.In 2009, Rosen started her audio mastering studio, Knack Mastering, in Ringwood, NJ. Acoustician Chris Pelonis designed her mastering room.
Rosen participated in speeches on mastering and audio industry-related panels at the AES Convention, Summer NAMM, the PotLuck Audio Conference, and the Welcome to 1979 Recording Summit.
In October 2017, Rosen and her husband Dave launched Whitestone Audio Instruments, a company that designs and produces professional analog processing equipment for audio engineers. Their first product, the P331 Tube Loading Amplifier, was unveiled at the 2018 NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA.
Rosen is an active member and was elected as a Governor of the New York Chapter of the Recording Academy in 2018.
Work
Kimberly Rosen works both for independent artists and labels and major label record companies and producers. Her most notable releases include works of Bonnie Raitt, Wynonna Judd, Joe Henry, Superdrag, Jeff Bridges, Amy Helm, and Title Fight.In 2014, she worked on the remake of the Johnny Cash album "Bitter Tears", published by Sony Masterworks, with the participation of Emmylou Harris, Steve Earl, Gillian Welch, The Milk Carton Kids and Kris Kristofferson. In 2015, she mastered the rearrangement of "Forever Young", theme of the television series Parenthood, performed by Rhiannon Giddens and Iron & Wine for its season finale.
Rosen was nominated for Best Engineered album for Bonnie Raitt's Dig In Deep and Milk Carton Kids' All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do.
Several albums mastered by Kimberly Rosen received a Grammy nomination. Aimee Mann's Mental Illness won the Best Folk Album Grammy; Bettye LaVette's Worthy was Grammy-nominated for Best Blues Album, while Victor Wainwright's Victor Wainwright and The Train and Teresa James and The Rhythm Tramps' Here In Babylon were nominated for Best Contemporary Blues Albums.
Grammy nominations and awards
Selected discography
| Year | Artist | Album | Credited |
| True Love | ¡Pas Net! | Mastering | |
| Darius Koski | What Was Once Is by and Gone | Mastering | |
| Jank | Versace Summer | Mastering | |
| Uke-Hunt | Uke-Hunt | Mastering | |
| Shirk Circus | This Band Will Destroy Your Life | Mastering | |
| The Riverwinds | The Riverwinds | Mastering | |
| Crystal Yates | The Other Side | Mastering | |
| Colin Lake | The Ones I Love | Mastering | |
| The Deadmen | The Deadmen | Mastering | |
| Julia Rainer | Spirits | Mastering | |
| Seryn | Shadow Shows | Mastering | |
| Dorian Allen | Running Back to You | Mastering | |
| Ben Shea | Red Sunshine | Mastering | |
| ALSO | Music Belongs In The Background | Mastering | |
| Turnover | Magnolia | Mastering | |
| Loretta Hagen | Lucky Stars | Mastering | |
| Seldan | In Transit | Mastering | |
| Muncie Girls | From Caplan to Belsize | Mastering | |
| Southern Cross | Down Below | Mastering | |
| Koji | Crooked in My Mind | Mastering | |
| Danl | Crooked Mile | Mastering | |
| Choir Vandals | Collection | Mastering | |
| Lewis & Clarke | Blasts of Holy Birth | Mastering | |
| Birds of Night | Birds of Night | Mastering | |
| 2003 | The Escape Engine | Celebrity Role Model | Assistant Engineer |
| 2004 | The Warriors | War Is Hell | Mastering Assistant |
| 2005 | Isadora | They'll Never Take Us Alive | Mastering Assistant |
| 2005 | Calico System | They Live | Mastering Assistant |
| 2005 | The Burning Season | The Haze of Infatuation | Mastering |
| 2005 | Dirty Faces | Superamerican | Mastering |
| 2005 | Tim Reale | Story | Mastering |
| 2005 | Paint It Black | Paradise | Mastering |
| 2005 | The Fire Still Burns | Keeping Hope Alive | Mastering |
| 2005 | Collapsar | Collapsar | Mastering |
| 2006 | McGill Manring Stevens | What We Do | Mastering |
| 2006 | Anagram | The Lights Went Up | Mastering |
| 2006 | Torture | Storm Alert | Editing |
| 2006 | Lifetime | Somewhere in the Swamps of Jersey | Assistant Mastering Engineer |
| 2006 | Bad Wizard | Sky High | Assistant Mastering Engineer |
| 2006 | Wuthering Heights | Shadow Cabinet | Mastering |
| 2006 | Flying Donuts | Renewd Attack | Mastering Assistant |
| 2006 | Incantation | Primordial Domination | Mastering Assistant |
| 2006 | Radio 4 | Packing Things Up On the Scene | Mastering |
| 2006 | River City High | Not Enough Saturday Nights | Mastering |
| 2006 | To Live and Shave in L.A. | Noon and Eternity | Mastering |
| 2006 | Music for Girls | Music for Girls | Mastering |
| 2006 | Dirty Faces | Get Right with God | Mastering |
| 2006 | Josef K | Entomology | Mastering |
| 2006 | Android Lust | Devour, Rise and Take Flight | Mastering Assistant |
| 2006 | DK Limb | Defy Define Definition | Assistant |
| 2006 | Genghis Tron | Dead Mountain Mouth | Sequencing |
| 2006 | Barricade | Be Heard | Mastering |
| 2006 | Antilove | 6/6/2006 | Assistant Engineer |
| 2007 | Pain Principle | Waiting for the Flies | Mastering Assistant |
| 2007 | Nakatomi Plaza | Unsettled | Assistant, Mastering |
| 2007 | Amandine | Solace in Sore Hands | Mastering |
| 2007 | Uke of Spaces Corners County | So Far on the Way | Mastering |
| 2007 | Alina Simone | Placelessness | Mastering |
| 2007 | Nurse & Soldier | Marginalia | Mastering |
| 2007 | Kill the Camera | Kill the Camera | Mastering |
| 2007 | The Teeth | You're My Lover Now | Mastering |
| 2007 | Jason Dove | We Should Be Together | Mastering |
| 2007 | John Bustine | Waltzes & Pleas | Mastering |
| 2007 | The Recession | Time, Arithmetic and Other Elementary Subjects Not Well Learned | Mastering |
| 2007 | Sean Madigan Hoen | The Liquor Witch | Mastering |
| 2007 | The Eclectic Collective | The Flux | Mastering |
| 2007 | One False Move | Some Kind of Healing | Mastering |
| 2007 | Weird Owl | Nuclear Psychology | Mastering |
| 2007 | Telenovela Star | Love Lust Sci-Fi & Monsters | Mastering |
| 2007 | Avec | Lines | Mastering |
| 2007 | Saints Never Surrender | Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst | Mastering |
| 2007 | Capital | Homefront | Mastering |
| 2007 | The High Strung | Get the Guests | Mastering |
| 2007 | Bring Back the Guns | Dry Futures | Mastering |
| 2007 | D. Jay | Buggy Baloo | Mastering |
| 2007 | Mustache! | Babes Say the Hottest Things | Mastering |
| 2008 | Jami Sieber | Unspoken | Mastering |
| 2008 | Final Drive | Under the Overpass of America | Mastering |
| 2008 | I Am The Heat | The Future Doesn't Need Us | Mastering |
| 2008 | The Muckrakers/ Muckrakers | The Concorde Fallacy | Mastering |
| 2008 | La Dispute | Somewhere at the Bottom of The River Between Vega & Altair | Mastering |
| 2008 | Franz Nicolay | Major General | Mastering |
| 2008 | Lydia | Illuminate | Mastering |
| 2008 | Destroy Everything | Freedom of Speech Means Talk is Cheap | Mastering |
| 2008 | Osaka Popstar | Rock'em O-Sock'em Live! | Mastering Assistant |
| 2008 | Doug Paisley | Doug Paisley | Mastering |
| 2008 | Saints Never Surrender | Brutus | Mastering |
| 2008 | Century | Black Ocean | Mastering |
| 2009 | Copernicus | disappearance | Mastering |
| 2009 | Spheric Universe Experience | Unreal | Mastering |
| 2009 | Kava Kon | Tiki for the Atomic Age | Mastering |
| 2009 | Higher Giant | The First Five | Mastering |
| 2009 | Acheron | The Final Conflict: Last Days Of God | Mastering |
| 2009 | Parasites | Solitary | Mastering |
| 2009 | Kelly Carmichael | Queen Fareena | Mastering |
| 2009 | Knot Feeder | Light Flares | Mastering |
| 2009 | The Peekers | Life in the Air | Mastering |
| 2009 | Various Artists | Just Like Heaven: A Tribute to the Cure | Mastering |
| 2009 | Untied States | Instant Everything, Constant Nothing | Mastering |
| 2009 | Scale the Summit | Carving Desert Canyons | Mastering |
| 2009 | Big Ned | Big Ned | Mastering |
| 2010 | Smoke or Fire | The Speakeasy | Mastering |
| 2010 | Elk City | House of Tongues | Mastering |
| 2011 | Pianos Become the Teeth | The Lack Long After | Mastering |
| 2011 | Me First and the Gimme Gimmes | Sing in Japanese | Mastering |
| 2011 | Title Fight | Shed | Mastering |
| 2011 | Zachary Cale | Noise of Welcome | Mastering |
| 2011 | Mother of Mercy | IV: Symptoms of Existence | Mastering |
| 2011 | Star Fucking Hipsters | From the Dumpster to the Grave | Mastering |
| 2011 | Cobra Skulls | Agitations | Mastering |
| 2012 | Various Artists | Vans Warped Tour '12: 2012 Tour Compilation | Mastering |
| 2013 | Anthony Green | Young Legs | Mastering |
| 2013 | Various Artists | Vans Warped Tour 2013 Compilation | Mastering |
| 2013 | Foxing | The Albatross | Mastering |
| 2013 | Anthony Green | Young Legs | Mastering |
| 2014 | Foxing | The Albatross | Mastering |
| 2014 | Get Dead | Bad News | Mastering |
| 2014 | Various Artists | Warped Tour 2014 Compilation | Mastering |
| 2014 | Braid | No Coast | Mastering |
| 2014 | Various Artists | Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited | Mastering |
| 2014 | Jeff Bridges / Jeff Bridges & the Abiders | Live | Mastering |
| 2014 | Sarah Jaffe | Don't Disconnect | Mastering |
| 2014 | Tigers Jaw | Charmer | Mastering |
| 2015 | Bettye LaVette | Worthy | Mastering |
| 2015 | Various Artists | Warped Tour 2015 Compilation | Mastering |
| 2015 | Nai Harvest | Hairball | Mastering |
| 2015 | Tom McBride | Columbia | Mastering |
| 2016 | Wynonna Judd / Wynonna & the Big Noise | Wynonna & the Big Noise | Mastering |
| 2016 | Relick | Twin House | Mastering |
| 2016 | Glen Phillips | Swallowed By The New | Mastering |
| 2016 | Billy Bragg / Joe Henry | Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad | Mastering |
| 2016 | Real Midnight | Birds of Chicago | Mastering |
| 2016 | Anthony Green | Pixie Queen | Mastering |
| 2016 | Chely Wright | I Am the Rain | Mastering |
| 2016 | Various Artists | Warped Tour 2016 Compilation | Mastering |
| 2016 | Get Dead | Honesty Lives Elsewhere | Mastering |
| 2016 | Bonnie Raitt | Dig in Deep | Mastering |
| 2016 | Jenny Gillespie | Cure for Dreaming | Mastering |
| 2016 | Sprowt | 2003 | Mastering |
| 2017 | Dead Heavens | Whatever Witch You Are | Mastering |
| 2017 | The Barr Brothers | Queens of the Breakers | Mastering |
| 2017 | Rozwell Kid | Precious Art | Mastering |
| 2017 | Sarah Jaffe | Bad Baby | Mastering |
| 2017 | Direct Hit! / Pears | Human Movement | Mastering |
| 2017 | Various Artists | Warped Tour 2017 Compilation | Mastering |
| 2018 | Amy Helm | This Too Shall Light | Mastering |
| 2018 | The Gaslight Anthem | The '59 Sound Sessions | Mastering |
| 2018 | Steep Canyon Rangers | Out in the Open | Mastering |
| 2018 | Victor Wainwright | Victor Wainwright and the Train | Mastering |
| 2018 | Brady Rymer / Brady Rymer & the Little Band That Could | Revvin' Up the Reindeer | Mastering |
| 2018 | Cicada Rhythm | Everywhere I Go | Mastering |
| 2018 | Birds Of Chicago | Love In Wartime | Mastering |
| 2018 | Birds Of Chicago | American Flowers | Mastering |
| 2018 | Former Member | Old Youth | Mastering |
| 2018 | Joe Henry | Thrum | Mastering |
| 2018 | Eric Lindell | Revolution In Your Heart | Mastering |
| 2018 | Belly | Dove | Mastering |
| 2018 | Sam Phillips | World On Sticks | Mastering |
| 2018 | Christine Rosander | Been a Long Time | Mastering |
| 2018 | Two Medicine | Astropsychosis | Mastering |
| 2018 | The Milk Carton Kids | All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do | Mastering |
| 2019 | Foy Vance | To Memphis | Mastering |
| 2019 | E.B. The Younger | To Each His Own | Mastering |
| 2019 | Rhiannon Giddens | There Is No Other | Mastering |
| 2019 | Carla Olson / Todd Wolfe | The Hidden Hills Sessions | Mastering |
| 2019 | Danny Lynn Wilson | Peace Of Mind | Mastering |
| 2019 | Over the Rhine | Love & Revelation | Mastering |
| 2019 | Matt Andersen | Halfway Home by Morning | Mastering |
| 2019 | Foy Vance | From Muscle Shoals | Mastering |
| 2019 | Doug Seegers | A Story I Got to Tell | Mastering |