Dave Pensado

Dave Pensado is a Grammy Award-winning mix engineer. His career began in Atlanta in the 1970s and 1980s doing live and studio sound engineering. He has lived in Los Angeles since 1990. Pensado and Trawick created the show to educate engineers on gear and technique while giving credit to pioneers of the industry. In January 2020, the pair were inducted into the TEC Hall of Fame in recognition of the show's contribution to audio education.

On July 20, 2013, Pensado and Trawick hosted an event at Vintage King Los Angeles called "Pensado Gear Expo 2013". More than one thousand people from around the world attended. 22-time Grammy Award-winning engineer, Al Schmitt, Steven Slate, Alex da Kid, Ryan Hewitt, and Robert Duncan were a few of the featured guests of the expo.

Equipment At first, Pensado occasionally demonstrates outboard analog gear, but later on, he only processes/edits audio tracks with his computer, which is also called mixing 'in the box', before sending his mixes to a mastering engineer. For all demonstrations he uses Pro Tools as his DAW (digital audio workstation), and the show is sponsored by audio companies he respects.

Pensado was the recipient of the 2020 NAMM TEC (Technical Excellence & Creativity) Hall of Fame Award. Pensado was officially inducted into the NAMM TEC Hall of Fame at the 35th Annual NAMM TEC Awards, held on January 18 in Anaheim, California during the NAMM Show.

Discography YearTitleArtistRole 2016 Sounds of the Sea The Cetacea Boys Mixing R&B Anthems Mixing 2015 Golden Moments Jill Scott Mixing Rub Peaches Mixing The Story Continues After Romeo Mixing 2014 Happy Hour: The Greatest Hits T-Pain Mixing Holiday Earth Mixing Me. I Am Mariah...The Elusive Chanteuse Mariah Carey Mixing The Lyricists' Opus Chrisette Michele Mixing The Way Macy Gray Mixing Xscape Michael Jackson Mixing 2013 Write It On A Wall Xai Mixing Break the Pot Rich Boy Mixing Now, Then & Forever Earth Mixing Rocks and Honey Bonnie Tyler Mixing 2012 Breathless/At Last... The Duets Album Kenny G Mixing Greatest Hits, Chapter 1 Kelly Clarkson Mixing R&B: The Collection [Rhino] Mixing Decode Exilia Mixing 2011 1977 The-Dream / Terius Nash Mixing A Family Business Brandy / Ray J Mixing A.N.T. Farm Mixing Contact Boney James Mixing Gloria Gloria Trevi Mezcla Killer Love Nicole Scherzinger Mixing Roy: Tribute to Roy Orbison Damien Leith Mixing The Light of the Sun Jill Scott Mixing Heal Andrea Renzullo Mixing 2010 Calling All Hearts Keyshia Cole Mixing Charice Charice Mixing Greatest Hits... So Far!!! P!nk Mixing Just Dance, Vol. 3 Mixing Love King The-Dream Mixing Luna Nueva Debi Nova Mixing Monkey Business/Elephunk/Bridging the Gap The Black Eyed Peas Mixing Pulse Toni Braxton Mixing StarStruck Disney Mixing Still Standing Monica Mixing The Love Trilogy The-Dream Mixing Twenty Ten: Greatest Hits Guy Sebastian Mixing Uni5: The World's Enemy Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Mixing Wear My Kiss Sugababes Mixing 2009 Above and Beyoncé: Video Collection & Dance Mixes Beyoncé Mixing Charmbracelet/The Emancipation of Mimi/E=MC2 Mariah Carey Mixing D.N.A. Mario Mixing Days Difference Days Difference Mixing Deeper Than Rap Rick Ross Mixing Def Jam 25: DJ Bring That Back Mixing Differently Cassie Davis Mixing Evolution of a Man Brian McKnight Mixing Fantasy Ride Ciara Mixing Fight for Love Elliott Yamin Mixing Forever in a Day Day26 Mixing Guilty Pleasure Ashley Tisdale Mixing Hits Seal Mixing How to Be a Lady, Vol. 1 Electrik Red Mixing I Look to You Whitney Houston Mixing Just Dance, Vol. 2 Mixing Just Go Lionel Richie Mixing Lady Love LeToya Mixing Let It Beat Shwayze Mixing Let's Get Crazy Cassie Mixing Love vs Money The-Dream Mixing Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel Mariah Carey Mixing My World Justin Bieber Mixing P!nk Box P!nk Mixing Ready Trey Songz Mixing Round 2 J. Holiday Mixing Ruthless Ace Hood Mixing She Wolf Shakira Mixing, Mixing Engineer Soft White Mack 10 Mixing Still BeBe & CeCe Winans Mixing Stronger with Each Tear Mary J. Blige Mixing Sweet 7 Sugababes Mixing The Rebirth Bobby V Mixing This Is Us Backstreet Boys Mixing This Is the One Utada Mixing Toussaint St. Jean: From the Hut, To the Projects, To the Mansion Wyclef Jean Mixing Untitled R. Kelly Mixing 2008 A Different Me Keyshia Cole Mixing A Long Time Coming Wayne Brady Mixing Best of Hilary Duff Hilary Duff Engineer, Audio Engineer, Mixing Best of the Best: Love Songs Diana Ross Mixing Black Summer Party: Best Of, Vol. 5 Mixing Brutha Brutha Mixing Call and Response: The Remix Album Maroon 5 Mixing Colby O Colby O'Donis Mixing Cookie Jar The-Dream / Gym Class Heroes Mixing Departure Jesse McCartney Mixing Discipline Janet Jackson Mixing Doll Domination The Pussycat Dolls Mixing Dream a Little Jimmy Demers Mixing E=MC² Mariah Carey Mixing Exit 13 LL Cool J Mixing First Love Karina Mixing Girlicious Girlicious Mixing Here I Stand Usher Mixing I Am...Sasha Fierce Beyoncé Mixing I'll Be Home for Christmas Brian McKnight Enhanced CD Audio Creation Intuition Jamie Foxx Mixing Just a Rolling Stone Donnie Klang Mixing Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits Christina Aguilera Mixing, Audio Production, Assistant Engineer Music in My Soul Leigh Jones Engineer, Audio Engineer, Mixing OnMyRadio Musiq Soulchild Mixing Playlist: Woman Mixing Prima J Prima J Mixing Raven-Symoné Raven-Symoné Mixing Shwayze Shwayze Mixing Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams Solange Mixing Texas Playradioplay! Mixing The Best Love...Ever! Mixing The Hits Kelis Mixing The Quilt Gym Class Heroes Mixing The Truth Cherish Mixing Theater of the Mind Ludacris Mixing True to the Game Mixing Turbo 919 Sean Garrett Mixing Uncle Charlie Charlie Wilson Mixing Yours, Mine and the Truth Sterling Simms Mixing 2007 All in My Blood Wiz Khalifa Mixing Big Macy Gray Mixing Bratz [Original Soundtrack] Bratz Mixing Ghetto Passport Famouz Mixing Greatest Hits Groove Armada Mixing Growing Pains Mary J. Blige Mixing Just Like You Keyshia Cole Mixing Look What You Made Me Yung Berg Enhanced Recording Love Is Wicked Brick & Lace Mixing Love/Hate The-Dream Mixing P!nk Box P!nk Mixing Souljaboytellem.com Soulja Boy Tell Em Mixing Soundboy Rock Groove Armada Mixing Spirit Leona Lewis Mixing Strength & Loyalty Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Mixing System Seal Audio Engineer, Mixing Taking Chances Céline Dion Mixing The Best of Me: Yolanda Adams Greatest Hits Yolanda Adams Mixing The Cool Lupe Fiasco Enhanced Recording The Real Thing: Words and Sounds, Vol. 3 Jill Scott Mixing The Rise and Fall of Keite Young Keite Young Mixing Trey Day Trey Songz Mixing Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls Tyler Perry Mixing We Ride (I See the Future) Mary J. Blige Mixing 2006 A Mary Mary Christmas Mary Mary Supervisor A Public Affair Jessica Simpson Mixing Aura Yvonne Catterfeld Mixing B'day Beyoncé Mixing Back to Basics Christina Aguilera Mixing Be Without You Mary J. Blige Mixing Christina Aguilera/Stripped Christina Aguilera Mixing Club Bangers Mixing Coming Home Lionel Richie Mixing Dance Revolution The Slumber Party Girls Mixing Director Avant Mixing Heart to Yours/Do You Know Michelle Williams Mixing I Don't Need a Man The Pussycat Dolls Mixing In My Own Words Ne-Yo Mixing Kelis Was Here Kelis Mixing Light Poles and Pine Trees Field Mob Mixing Live in London The Pussycat Dolls Mixing Loose Nelly Furtado Mixing Maneater Nelly Furtado Mixing My Book K-Ci Mixing My Friends & Me Dionne Warwick Mixing Point of No Return Shareefa Mixing Reflections (A Retrospective) Mary J. Blige Mixing Step Up Mixing Ten Brian McKnight Mixing Testimony, Vol. 1: Life & Relationship India.Arie Mixing 2005 #1's Destiny's Child Mixing Beautiful Life/Just As I Am Guy Sebastian Mixing Check on It [Single] Beyoncé / Slim Thug Mixing Cool Traxx!, Vol. 2 Remixing Day by Day Yolanda Adams Mixing Desperate Housewives [TV Soundtrack] Mixing Divorcing Neo 2 Marry Soul Jaguar Wright Mixing Gemini Brian McKnight Mixing Girl, Pt. 1 Destiny's Child Mixing Hero Kirk Franklin Mixing I Am Not My Hair India.Arie Mixing Illumination Earth Mixing In Public Kelis Mixing In This Life Together Kindred the Family Soul Mixing In the Mid-Nite Hour Warren G Mixing In the Mix [Music from the Motion Picture] Mixing Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen Mixing Lost and Found Will Smith Mixing, Composer Missundaztood/Can't Take Me Home P!nk Mixing PCD The Pussycat Dolls Mixing Sweatsuit Nelly Vocal Mixing The Breakthrough Mary J. Blige Mixing The Way It Is Keyshia Cole Mixing This is Me Jully Black Engineer Tilt Ya Head Back Nelly Vocal Mixing When Love Is Gone Martin Nievera Mixing 2004 At Last...The Duets Album Kenny G Mixing Barbershop 2: Back in Business Mixing Beautiful Life Guy Sebastian Mixing Believe in Angels Believe in Me Angel Mixing, A&R Cherie Cherie Engineer, Mixing Destiny Fulfilled Destiny's Child Mixing Do You Know Michelle Williams Mixing Grammy Nominees 2004 Mixing I Changed My Mind Keyshia Cole Engineer Just for You Lionel Richie Mixing Let's Talk About It Carl Thomas Mixing Never Keyshia Cole Mixing Outrun the Sky Lalah Hathaway Mixing Shark Tale Mixing Sweat Nelly Vocal Mixing The Collection Dina Carroll Mixing The Ultimate R&B Album Mixing The Very Best of Macy Gray Macy Gray Mixing Throwback Boyz II Men Mixing Tiffany Villarreal Tiffany Villareal Mixing Walkin' in the Shadow of Life Neville Brothers Mixing 2003 Biker Boyz Mixing Chasing Time II Martin Nievera Mixing Emosoul D.J. Rogers Jr. Mixing Fallen Mya Mixing Falling Uphill Lillix Mixing In This Skin Jessica Simpson Mixing Low Kelly Clarkson Mixing Miss Independent Kelly Clarkson Mixing Moodring Mya Mixing My Love Is Like...Wo Mya Mixing Rose Falcon Rose Falcon Mixing Solo Star Solange Mixing Tasty Kelis Mixing Thankful Kelly Clarkson Mixing The Fighting Temptations Mixing Trouble [Import CD] P!nk Mixing Try This P!nk Mixing U Turn Brian McKnight Mixing 2002 Amor Secreto Luis Fonsi Mixing Austin Powers in Goldmember [Original Soundtrack] Mixing Dirrty Christina Aguilera Mixing Dirty Child Rosey Mixing El Cool Magnifico Coolio Mixing Emotional K-Ci & JoJo Engineer, Mixing Family Portrait P!nk Mixing Fight the Feeling Luis Fonsi Mixing From There to Here: 1989-2002 Brian McKnight Mixing Full Circle Boyz II Men Mixing Full Moon Brandy Mixing Fun Rose Falcon Mixing Get the Party Started [Australia CD] P!nk Mixing Go-Get-Her/Nowhere Vi3 Mixing Greatest Hits Jon B. Mixing Justified Justin Timberlake Mixing Love & War Jerzee Monet Mixing Moulin Rouge [Original Soundtrack] Mixing Scooby-Doo [Original Soundtrack] Mixing Simply Deep Kelly Rowland Mixing So Tight Vi3 Mixing Stole [4 Track Single] Kelly Rowland Mixing Stripped Christina Aguilera Mixing This Is the Remix Destiny's Child Mixing Transporter [Original Soundtrack] Mixing Virginity TG4 Mixing 2001 8 Days of Christmas Destiny's Child Mixing A Girl Like Me Emma Bunton Mixing Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Soundtrack) James Newton Howard Mixing BBD Bell Biv DeVoe Mixing, Mixing Engineer Down to Earth [Music from the Motion Picture] Mixing Dr. Dolittle 2 Mixing Greatest Hits Ice Cube Mixing JP Jesse Powell Mixing Jersey Ave. Jersey Ave. Mixing Joy Enriquez Joy Enriquez Mixing Lady Marmalade Christina Aguilera / Missy Elliott / Mya / P!nk Mixing Legally Blonde Mixing M!ssundaztood P!nk Mixing MTV: TRL Christmas Mixing Pleasures U Like Jon B. Mixing Pure R&B, Vol. 2 Mixing Superhero Brian McKnight Mixing Survivor Destiny's Child Mixing The Very Best of Dina Carroll Dina Carroll Mixing The Brothers Mixing Victoria Beckham Victoria Beckham Mixing 2000 Black Trash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones Sticky Fingaz Mixing Bridging the Gap The Black Eyed Peas Mixing Fearless Crystal Lewis Mixing Gift of Love Diana Ross Mixing Gotta Tell You Samantha Mumba Producer, Mixing La Colección Crystal Lewis Mixing Love & Basketball [Soundtrack] Mixing Men of Honor Mark Isham Mixing My Kind of Christmas Christina Aguilera Mixing Nutty Professor II: The Klumps Mixing Paris: New York Marc Laurens Mixing Remix Plus Christina Aguilera Mixing Revelation 98° Mixing The Hurricane [Original Soundtrack] Mixing X K-Ci & JoJo Mixing You Can't Resist Jessica Mixing 1999 24-7 Kevon Edmonds Mixing 5 for 1 5 Young Men Mixing Chocolate Mood Marc Nelson Mixing Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera Mixing Coolio's Crowbar Records Presents a Compilation of New Artists Mixing Elton John and Tim Rice's "Aida" Elton John / Tim Rice Mixing Enrique Enrique Iglesias Mixing Hot Coko Coko Mixing I Love You...Me Cherokee Mixing I Want It All Warren G Mixing It's Real K-Ci & JoJo Mixing Marvin Is 60: A Tribute Album Mixing Northern Star Melanie C Mixing Pokémon: The First Movie Mixing Shanice Shanice Mixing Trina & Tamara Trina & Tamara Mixing Unleash the Dragon Sisqó Mixing, Mixing Engineer What a Girl Wants Christina Aguilera Mixing 1998 12 Soulful Nights of Christmas Jermaine Dupri Mixing 4 Bruthas and a Bass Solo Mixing Behind the Front The Black Eyed Peas Mixing Bethlehem Brian McKnight Mixing Breath from Another Esthero Mixing Fame L.A. Mixing In Love at Christmas K-Ci & JoJo Mixing Only You Tami Davis Mixing 1997 BeBe Winans BeBe Winans Mixing Betta Listen Laurneá Mixing C U When U Get There Coolio Mixing Greatest Hits Eternal Mixing Love Always K-Ci & JoJo Mixing My Soul Coolio Mixing Rahsaan Patterson Rahsaan Patterson Engineer Mixing Samantha Cole Samantha Cole Engineer Steel Mixing 1996 Back to the World Tevin Campbell Engineer, Mixing I Am L.V. L.V. Mixing Light Years Jamiroquai Mixing Jermaine Dupri Presents: Soulful Nights of Christmas Jermaine Dupri Mixing 1995 Damn Thing Called Love After 7 Mixing Do You Wanna Ride? Adina Howard Mixing I Remember You Brian McKnight Engineer Out of the Blu Blu Producer, Synthesizer, Drum Programming Reflections After 7 Mixing We Got It Immature Mixing1994 Blankman Mixing For You London Jones Mixing Hot & Ready Raja-Nee Mixing Sugar Hill Producer, Engineer, Mixing Time Atlantic Starr Mixing Treat U Right Blackgirl Mixing 1993 Afro-Plane Afro-Plane Engineer Five XI Five XI Mixing It's Real The Real Seduction Composer Love's Alright Eddie Murphy Mixing The Meteor Man Mixing Whole New Head One II 3 Engineer, Mixing, Mixing Engineer 1992 Countess Countess Vaughn Producer, Mixing, Remixing Crazy Coolin''' The Barrio Boyzz Mixing On Our Worst Behavior| Immature Producer, Mixing, Production Technician White Men Can't Jump| Producer, Engineer, Composer

Freezin' 'Em| Level III Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Vocal Engineer, Composer Live Your Life Be Free| Belinda Carlisle Remixing Livin' It Up [Cassette Single]| Trent Dean Mixing Ricca| Ricca Mixing Spellbound| Paula Abdul Engineer WBBD - Bootcity! The Remix Album| Bell Biv DeVoe Remixing What Comes Naturally| Sheena Easton Engineer

Notes of a Native Son| Laquan Mixing Ralph Tresvant| Ralph Tresvant Mixing Tommy Boy's Greatest Hits| Mixing 1988 Too Tuff| Brick Engineer Breakdance Party'' Mixing

Alumni Some successful audio engineers & producers that have assisted for Dave Pensado in the past include Sylvia Massy, Jaycen Joshua, Manny Marroquin, Dylan "3-D" Dresdow, Ariel Chobaz, Ethan Willoughby, Nico Hamui, and Rafael Fadul.