Leon Zervos
Leon Zervos is a mastering engineer who has worked with many world-renowned artists, including Pink, Rihanna, Maroon 5, Beastie Boys, and Willie Nelson.
Life and career
Leon Zervos began his mastering career in 1982 at the then EMI Studios 301 in Sydney, where he worked with the likes of INXS, Crowded House, and Midnight Oil. Moving to New York City in 1992, he worked mastering for Absolute Audio for six years, before taking on the role of Senior mastering engineer at Masterdisk in 1993, where he added artists such as Aerosmith, Mobb Deep, Maroon 5, Avril Lavigne, Gavin DeGraw, Duran Duran, Ben Folds and NSYNC to his mastering portfolio, with some of the music he mastered going on to win GRAMMY Awards. Zervos left Masterdisk in 2003, becoming senior mastering engineer at Sterling Sound in New York City, until 2009 when he returned to Sydney.Leon Zervos currently works as a mastering engineer at Studios 301 in Sydney, Australia. He works with a wide variety of genres, including pop, jazz, country, metal, R&B, dance, and orchestral, boasting Platinum selling credits in each category.
Credits
Leon Zervos is credited as the Mastering engineer on all of the following recordingsYear | Song/Album | Artist | Year | Song/Album | Artist |
1985 | "Go West " single | The Cult | 1985 | Down on the Farm EP | Cosmic Psychos |
1985 | Speak & Spell album | Depeche Mode | 1985 | "Living in a Dream" single | Pseudo Echo |
1986 | Wa Wa Nee album | Wa Wa Nee | 1986 | "Who Made Who" single | AC/DC |
1986 | Nobody Likes a Thinker album | Massappeal | 1986 | Jack album | John Farnham |
1987 | At First Sight, Violets Are Blue album | The Stems | 1987 | Mayhemic Destruction album | Mortal Sin |
1987 | Noiseworks album | Noiseworks | 1987 | feedtime album | feedtime |
1989 | Safety in Numbers album | Margaret Urlich | 1989 | Cyclone Raymond album | Mental As Anything |
1990 | Blue Sky Mining album | Midnight Oil | 1991 | Live Baby Live album | INXS |
1992 | Welcome to Wherever You Are album | INXS | 1992 | "Four Seasons in One Day" single | Crowded House |
1992 | Ferry Boat Fred album | ABC Music | 1995 | The Infamous album | Mobb Deep |
1998 | Once in a LIVEtime album | Dream Theater | 1996 | "Macarena" Remix | Los del Rio |
1996 | Chicago Original Broadway Cast album | Chicago Musical | 1997 | Nine Lives album | Aerosmith |
1997 | Falling into Infinity album | Dream Theater | 1998 | NSYNC album | NSYNC |
1988 | Cruel Summer album | Ace of Base | 1998 | The Winter Album album | NSYNC |
1998 | I'm Telling You for the Last Time album | Jerry Seinfeld | 1998 | Gift of Love album | Deepak Chopra |
1999 | Keith Urban album | Keith Urban | 1999 | Supernatural album | Santana |
2000 | "Most Girls" single | Pink | 2001 | Last Wave of Summer album | Cold Chisel |
2002 | Songs About Jane album | Maroon 5 | 2002 | Getta A Kick album | Diesel |
2002 | Get the Party Started Remix | Pink | 2002 | "This Love" single | Maroon 5 |
2002 | Dance for Me album | Mary J. Blige | 2002 | Perihelion album | Deep Purple |
2002 | Feast on Scraps album | Alanis Morissette | 2002 | The Morning After album | Deborah Cox |
2003 | Motown album | Boyz II Men | 2003 | Ride 'Til I Die album | George Thorogood and the Destroyers |
2004 | BigBigLove album | Little Birdy | 2004 | Revolutions album | The X-Ecutioners |
2004 | Chariot album | Gavin DeGraw | 2004 | A Song Is a City album | Eskimo Joe |
2004 | Astronaut album | Duran Duran | 2004 | Under My Skin album | Avril Lavigne |
2005 | Songs for Silverman album | Ben Folds | 2005 | Flyleaf album | Flyleaf |
2005 | Solid Gold Hits album | Beastie Boys | 2006 | Home album | Collective Soul |
2006 | "Hurt" single | Christina Aguilera | 2006 | Coming Home album | Lionel Richie |
2006 | The Hard Stuff album | George Thorogood and the Destroyers | 2007 | Divas album | Andrew Lloyd Webber |
2008 | What a Life album | Adam Brand | 2008 | Good Girl Gone Bad album | Rihanna |
2008 | Folie a Deux album | Fall Out Boy | 2008 | Black Clouds & Silver Linings | Dream Theater |
2008 | "Mercy" Remix | Duffy | 2008 | "Touch My Body" Remix | Mariah Carey |
2009 | Golden Rule album | Powderfinger | 2009 | Sgt. Pepper Live album | Cheap Trick |
2009 | The Resistance album | Muse | 2010 | Bliss Release album | Cloud Control |
2010 | Love the Fall EP | Michael Paynter | 2010 | "Just Say So" single | Brian McFadden |
2010 | Modern Day Addiction album | Clare Bowditch | 2010 | "Animal" single | Dash and Will |
2010 | With Emperor Antarctica EP | Boy & Bear | 2011 | Ghosts of the Past album | Eskimo Joe |
2011 | Kosciuszko album | Jebediah | 2011 | The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating album | The Living End |
2011 | "Talk Talk Talk" single | Darren Hayes | 2011 | Put Your Hands Up EP | Kylie Minogue |
2011 | Beats & Blips album | Marvin Priest | 2011 | Australian Idle album | Tim Freedman |
2011 | Fingerprints and Footprints album | Powderfinger | 2012 | Christmas EP | Delta Goodrem |
2012 | The Sapphires: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album | The Sapphires | 2012 | Pope Innocent X album | Bertie Blackman |
2012 | Child of the Universe album | Delta Goodrem | 2012 | "Battle Scars" single | Guy Sebastian |
2012 | No Plans album | Cold Chisel | 2012 | "Just a Game" single | Birdy |
2013 | Thirty album | Anthony Callea | 2013 | Blue Sky Blue album | Pete Murray |
2013 | The Christmas Album album | Human Nature | 2013 | God Loves You When You're Dancing EP | Vance Joy |
2013 | Kensal Road album | Kate Ceberano | 2013 | Goin' Your Way album | Neil Finn and Paul Kelly |
2014 | Sea of Approval album | Andy Bull | 2014 | Beautiful album | Jessica Mauboy |
2014 | album | Jimmy Barnes | 2014 | Flesh & Blood album | John Butler Trio |
2014 | "Super Love" single | Dami Im | 2014 | "Que Sera" single | Justice Crew |
2014 | Love of Cartography album | sleepmakeswaves | 2014 | "Create/Destroy" single | Art vs. Science |
2014 | Here's to You & I album | The McClymonts | 2014 | The Beard Album album | The Beards |
2018 | Penetr8 | The Marion Cranes |