Howie Weinberg is an American audio mastering engineer with over 2,257 mastering credits according to AllMusic, over 200 albums certified Gold or Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), 3 TEC Awards, 16 Grammy Awards, 33 Grammy nominations, 2 Juno Awards, and 1 Mercury Prize.
Noteably, Weinberg mastered Herbie Hancock's 1983 Grammy Award-winning album Future Shock. Weinberg also worked on the Payolas' Juno-winning 1993 song "Eyes of a Stranger". Other notable mastering works include the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill and Nirvana's Nevermind, both of which were ranked on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Weinberg has mastered over 200 records which were certified Gold or Platinum.
Weinberg also worked with:
- Madonna
- Prince
- U2
- Mariah Carey
- Van Halen
- Tom Waits
- Twenty One Pilots
- The Mars Volta
- Sheryl Crow
- Billy Corgan
- Spoon
- Public Enemy
- Yoko Ono
- PJ Harvey
- Run-DMC
- Phil Keaggy
- Joe Cocker
- LL Cool J
- Blues Traveler
- The Killers
- New Kids on the Block
- Garbage
- The Clash
- Rammstein
- Thirty Seconds to Mars
- Metallica
- Aerosmith
- 30Aut6
- The White Stripes
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Joe Walsh
- Veruca Salt
- Sneaker Pimps
- Mannheim Steamroller
- Iron Maiden
- Joe Cocker
- Joe Satriani
- Chance the Rapper
- Eddie Van Halen
- Miley Cyrus
- Grimes
- Charli XCX
- Foster the People
- Thirty Seconds to Mars
- ASAP Rocky
- Ice Cube
- Muse
- UB40
- David Lee Roth
- Björk
- The The
- Limp Bizkit
- Fiona Apple
Dimebag Darrell of Pantera said of Weinberg:
When you get to mastering you've got to find the magic mix that works once it goes through all the compression and EQing. We worked with Howie Weinberg and he's a fantabulous motherfucker.
Weinberg began working in the mail room at Masterdisk in 1979, delivering recording tapes in New York City. Mastering engineer Bob Ludwig acted as his mentor. In January 2011, he left Masterdisk to set up his own mastering company in Los Angeles, Howie Weinberg Mastering, which appeared in Voyage LA Magazine's "Most Inspiring Stories" on February 11, 2021.
In 2017 his work from Nirvana's, Smells Like Teen Spirit, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. That year he also won a Juno Awards of 2017 for The Strumbellas.
He appeared on a panel discussion at the 2009 SXSW music festival titled Producers "On Making Classic Records" sometimes working in a teaching capacity.
Weinberg also consults with new technologies, new media, and education. In 2020, Weinberg began consulting with LANDR, an online, cloud-based, automated mastering service developed by MixGenius in Montreal, Quebec. The service digitally masters uploaded audio tracks using artificial intelligence algorithms.