Leon Zervos

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Leon Zervos
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Leon Zervos at Studios 301
Background information
GenresRock, Folk, Hard Rock, Pop, Dance, Country, R&B, Orchestra
Occupation Mastering Engineer
Website http://www.studios301.com

Leon Zervos is a mastering engineer who has worked with artists including Pink, Rihanna, Maroon 5, Beastie Boys, and Willie Nelson. [1]

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Life and career

Leon Zervos began his mastering career in 1982 at the then EMI Studios 301 in Sydney, [2] where he worked with the likes of INXS, Crowded House, and Midnight Oil. [3] Moving to New York City in 1992, he worked mastering for Absolute Audio for six years, [4] 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, [5] with some of the music he mastered going on to win GRAMMY Awards. [6] Zervos left Masterdisk in 2003, becoming senior mastering engineer at Sterling Sound in New York City, until 2009 when he returned to Sydney. [7]

Leon Zervos currently works as a mastering engineer at Studios 301 in Sydney, Australia. [8] 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. [9]

Credits

Leon Zervos is credited as the Mastering engineer on all of the following recordings

YearSong/AlbumArtistYearSong/AlbumArtist
1985"Go West (Crazy Spinning Circles)" single The Cult 1985Down 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
1986Nobody Likes a Thinker album Massappeal 1986 Jack album John Farnham
1987 At First Sight, Violets Are Blue album The Stems 1987Mayhemic Destruction album Mortal Sin
1987 Noiseworks album Noiseworks 1987 feedtime album feedtime
1989 Safety in Numbers album Margaret Urlich 1989Cyclone 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" (Bayside Boys Mix) 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 1998Gift of Love album Deepak Chopra
1999 Keith Urban album Keith Urban 1999 Supernatural album Santana
2000"Most Girls" single Pink 2001Last Wave of Summer album Cold Chisel
2002 Songs About Jane album Maroon 5 2002Getta 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 2002Perihelion album Deep Purple
2002 Feast on Scraps album Alanis Morissette 2002 The Morning After album Deborah Cox
2003Motown 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 Destroyers2007Divas album Andrew Lloyd Webber
2008What 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
2010Modern Day Addiction album Clare Bowditch 2010"Animal" single Dash and Will
2010With 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 (If You Feel Love) EP Kylie Minogue
2011Beats & Blips album Marvin Priest 2011Australian Idle album Tim Freedman
2011Fingerprints and Footprints album Powderfinger 2012 Christmas EP Delta Goodrem
2012 The Sapphires: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album The Sapphires 2012Pope Innocent X album Bertie Blackman
2012 Child of the Universe album Delta Goodrem 2012"Battle Scars" single Guy Sebastian
2012No Plans album Cold Chisel 2012"Just a Game" single Birdy
2013 Thirty album Anthony Callea 2013 Blue Sky Blue (The Byron Bay Sessions) 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
2014Sea of Approval album Andy Bull 2014 Beautiful (Platinum Edition) album Jessica Mauboy
2014 30:30 Hindsight album Jimmy Barnes 2014 Flesh & Blood album John Butler Trio
2014"Super Love" single Dami Im 2014"Que Sera" single Justice Crew
2014Love of Cartography album sleepmakeswaves 2014"Create/Destroy" single Art vs. Science
2014 Here's to You & I album The McClymonts 2014The Beard Album album The Beards
2018Penetr8The Marion Cranes2020"What?" single SB19
2020 zero_one album The Living Tombstone 2021 Pebble House, Vol. 1: Kuwaderno album Ben&Ben

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