Tom Lord-Alge is a four-time Grammy Award–winning record producer

Record producer

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 and mixer

Audio engineering

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. He is the youngest of Vivian Lord's five children, Mark Lord-Alge, Lisa Lord-Alge, Chris Lord-Alge

Chris Lord-Alge

Chris Lord-Alge is a mixer who has worked on various albums. He is the brother of Tom Lord-Alge, another audio engineer. Chris Lord-Alge is known for his extreme use of dynamic range compression in both hardware and software plug-in versions....

, Jeff Lord-Alge and Tom Lord-Alge. His older brother Chris Lord-Alge

Chris Lord-Alge

Chris Lord-Alge is a mixer who has worked on various albums. He is the brother of Tom Lord-Alge, another audio engineer. Chris Lord-Alge is known for his extreme use of dynamic range compression in both hardware and software plug-in versions....

 and the lesser known Jeff Lord-Alge are also audio engineers.

Lord-Alge helped pioneer a method of digital tape editing known as "flying" vocals (e.g., using a piece of the chorus to accent a different part of the song).

A prolific mix engineer

Mix engineer

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, Lord-Alge has worked with Bowling for Soup

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, Skillet

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, Black Light Burns

Black Light Burns

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, The Gracious Few

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, Switchfoot

Switchfoot

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, Manic Street Preachers

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, Chicago

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, Hanson

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, Sarah Brightman

Sarah Brightman

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, Sarah McLachlan

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, Marilyn Manson

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, Angels & Airwaves

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, Barenaked Ladies

Barenaked Ladies

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, Oasis

Oasis (band)

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, Sum 41

Sum 41

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, The Rolling Stones

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, Peter Gabriel

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, 30 Seconds to Mars

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, blink-182

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, Lights Over Paris

Lights Over Paris

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, David Poe, Fountains of Wayne

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, The Fratellis

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, Avril Lavigne

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, Boys Like Girls

Boys Like Girls

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, U2

U2

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, Korn

Korn

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, Weezer

Weezer

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, M2M

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, The Goo Goo Dolls

Goo Goo Dolls

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, Level 42

Level 42

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, Third Eye Blind

Third Eye Blind

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, Yellowcard

Yellowcard

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, Live

Live (band)

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, Elliot Minor

Elliot Minor

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, Hoobastank

Hoobastank

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, Marianas Trench, Sevendust

Sevendust

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, All Time Low

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, Newsboys

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, Taking Back Sunday

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, P!nk

P!nk

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, McFly

McFly

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, Coldplay

Coldplay

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, The Tea Party

The Tea Party

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, The Verve Pipe

The Verve Pipe

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. Relient K

Relient K

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 and Billy Talent

Billy Talent

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.

Lord-Alge worked at Unique Recording Studios

Unique Recording Studios

Unique Recording Studios was a technologically innovative five room recording studio operating in New York City during the years 1978 to 2004. The business got off the ground as a rehearsal studio with a Tascam 8 track recorder in 1978, but soon expanded to 16, and then 24 tracks with the first...

, NYC in the 1980s mixing for Force M.D.'s, Chaka Kahn, Taka Boom Malcom McLaren, David, Johansen, OMD, TKA, Jeff Beck, Little Steven, Wendy & Lisa, John Waite, Earth, Wind & Fire, Supertramp

Supertramp

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, and The System. At that studio, he recorded and mixed Steve Winwood

Steve Winwood

Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...

's "Back in the High Life

Back in the High Life

Back in the High Life is the fourth solo album by English rock musician Steve Winwood. It was a top ten hit on the album charts in the United States, hitting #3, and has sold over five million copies...

" album featuring the single "Higher Love

Higher Love

"Higher Love" is a 1986 number-one hit song by Steve Winwood. It was the first single released from his fourth solo LP, Back in the High Life. It was written by Winwood and Will Jennings, and produced by Russ Titelman and Winwood...

" The album won multiple Grammy’s in 1986 for Record of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male and the Grammy for Best Engineered Recording - Non-Classical, the latter awarded to Lord-Alge for his work on the album.

External links

• [ AllMusic.com entry]
• S.O.S. Article
• Fan Site
• Artist Direct entry