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Audio engineer, mixing and mastering engineer, music producer, and podcast/post-production editor with 25+ years of professional experience taking multitrack sessions, stems, raw dialogue, and remote recordings from intake and cleanup through editing, mixing, mastering, quality control, and release-ready delivery. Deep hands-on fluency across major DAWs and proven success with fully remote/asynchronous workflows, with a client-first ability to explain technical decisions, creative choices, and audio quality standards clearly to both artists and nontechnical stakeholders.…Audio engineer, mixing and mastering engineer, music producer, and podcast/post-production editor with 25+ years of professional experience taking multitrack sessions, stems, raw dialogue, and remote recordings from intake and cleanup through editing, mixing, mastering, quality control, and release-ready delivery. Deep hands-on fluency across major DAWs and proven success with fully remote/asynchronous workflows, with a client-first ability to explain technical decisions, creative choices, and audio quality standards clearly to both artists and nontechnical stakeholders.

Brian Stephens

Audio Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Mastering Engineer, +2

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Audio engineer, mixing and mastering engineer, music producer, and podcast/post-production editor with 25+ years of professional experience taking multitrack sessions, stems, raw dialogue, and remote recordings from intake and cleanup through editing, mixing, mastering, quality control, and release-ready delivery. Deep hands-on fluency across major DAWs and proven success with fully remote/asynchronous workflows, with a client-first ability to explain technical decisions, creative choices, and audio quality standards clearly to both artists and nontechnical stakeholders.…Audio engineer, mixing and mastering engineer, music producer, and podcast/post-production editor with 25+ years of professional experience taking multitrack sessions, stems, raw dialogue, and remote recordings from intake and cleanup through editing, mixing, mastering, quality control, and release-ready delivery. Deep hands-on fluency across major DAWs and proven success with fully remote/asynchronous workflows, with a client-first ability to explain technical decisions, creative choices, and audio quality standards clearly to both artists and nontechnical stakeholders.

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Audio engineer, mixing and mastering engineer, music producer, and podcast/post-production editor with 25+ years of professional experience taking multitrack sessions, stems, raw dialogue, and remote recordings from intake and cleanup through editing, mixing, mastering, quality control, and release-ready delivery.

Deep hands-on fluency across major DAWs and proven success with fully remote/asynchronous workflows, with a client-first ability to explain technical decisions, creative choices, and audio quality standards clearly to both artists and nontechnical stakeholders.

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Work Experience

Founding Partner, Drummer & Musical Director; Creative Director at Nashville Nation

January 1, 2025 - Present

Serve as mixing and mastering engineer for the band’s audio, music-video, and promotional releases—taking sessions/stems through edit review, mix revisions, final mastering, and delivery. Provide onstage musical direction and production input, coordinating arrangements, cues, transitions, playback, and consistency between live performances and recorded content.

Studio Manager, Chief Audio Engineer & Recording Studio Project Lead (Part-Time) at Brian Stephens The Lovett School

January 1, 2018 - Present

Manage the campus recording studio and provide professional tracking, editing, mixing, production, and final-delivery services for students, faculty, ensembles, guest artists, and institutional projects. Led modernization of the studio including facility inventory, computer/interface selection, software implementation, microphone expansion, control-room rewiring, and signal-flow redesign. Led technical/functional design of a new recording studio planned to open in 2028, coordinating workflows, infrastructure, equipment needs, stakeholders, assembly, testing, and commissioning.

AVL Systems Consultant & Technical Trainer (Contract) at Visionquest

January 1, 2010 - Present

Advise an Atlanta AVL integrator on audio/video product selection, signal flow, and practical system workflows for church, theater, and commercial installations. Teach staff and volunteers how to operate installed systems and explain gain structure, console workflows, mixing fundamentals, troubleshooting, and quality-control practices in clear, practical language.

Founder, Executive Producer & Chief Audio Engineer at Secret Cove Studios

January 1, 1999 - Present

Take client-supplied multitrack sessions, stems, raw dialogue, and remote recordings from intake through release-ready delivery, including session organization, editing, comping, tuning, time/phase alignment, cleanup, mixing, mastering, quality control, and export. Produce music and audio post for artists, labels, podcasts, branded content, film/video, and broadcast applications; complete remote drum sessions and production work on a near-weekly basis. Manage fully remote/asynchronous projects with structured naming, version control, written feedback, review rounds, and organized delivery of masters and alternate formats. Evaluate quality based on musical intent, playback translation, artifact/noise control, dynamics and loudness, and client/platform requirements; guide projects from pre-production through final delivery and client communication.