Kim Rosen

Kimberly A. Rosen (née Dumas; born ) is an American Grammy-nominated audio mastering engineer. Since 2009, she owns and runs a mastering studio in Ringwood, New Jersey.

Career Rosen grew up in the western Massachusetts town of Northampton. With an interest in pursuing a career in the music industry, she began an internship at West West Side Music in Tenafly, New Jersey. There, she assisted chief mastering engineer Alan Douches from 2002 through 2009. While assisting at West West Side Music, Rosen began taking on her own mastering projects and was promoted to staff mastering engineer in 2004. As a mastering engineer at West West Side Music, Rosen mastered a wide range of projects for artists such as Franz Ferdinand, Dashboard Confessional, Jeremy Enigk, and La Dispute. In 2009, Rosen started her own audio mastering studio, Knack Mastering, in Ringwood, New Jersey. Acoustician Chris Pelonis designed her mastering room. Summer NAMM, the PotLuck Audio Conference (Tucson, Arizona), and the Welcome to 1979 Recording Summit (Nashville, Tennessee).

In October 2017, Rosen and her husband Dave launched Whitestone Audio Instruments, a company that designs and produces professional analog processing equipment for audio engineers. Their first product, the P331 Tube Loading Amplifier, was unveiled at the 2018 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. Rosen is an active member and was elected as a Governor of the New York Chapter of the Recording Academy (Grammys) in 2018.

Work Rosen works both for independent artists and labels and for major-label record companies and producers. Her most notable releases include works by Bonnie Raitt, Wynonna Judd, Joe Henry, Superdrag, Jeff Bridges, Amy Helm, and Title Fight.

In 2014, she worked on the remake of the Johnny Cash album Bitter Tears, published by Sony Masterworks, with the participation of Emmylou Harris, Steve Earl, Gillian Welch, The Milk Carton Kids and Kris Kristofferson. In 2015, she mastered the rearrangement of "Forever Young", the theme song of the television series Parenthood, performed by Rhiannon Giddens and Iron & Wine for its series finale.

Rosen was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for mastering Bonnie Raitt's Dig In Deep (2016) and the Milk Carton Kids' All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do (2018).

Several albums mastered by Kimberly Rosen have received Grammy Award nominations as well as wins. The Bonnie Raitt album Just Like That received four nominations and three wins, including the 2023 Grammy Award for Song of the Year. Aimee Mann's Mental Illness (2017) won the Best Folk Album Grammy, 2023 Bonnie Raitt Just Like That Best Americana Album Year Artist Album Credited True Love ¡Pas Net! Mastering Darius Koski What Was Once Is by and Gone Mastering Jank Versace Summer Mastering Uke-Hunt Uke-Hunt Mastering Shirk Circus This Band Will Destroy Your Life Mastering The Riverwinds The Riverwinds Mastering Crystal Yates The Other Side Mastering Colin Lake The Ones I Love Mastering The Deadmen The Deadmen Mastering Julia Rainer Spirits Mastering Seryn Shadow Shows Mastering Dorian Allen Running Back to You Mastering Ben Shea Red Sunshine Mastering ALSO Music Belongs In The Background Mastering Turnover Magnolia Mastering Loretta Hagen Lucky Stars Mastering Seldan In Transit Mastering Muncie Girls From Caplan to Belsize Mastering Southern Cross Down Below Mastering Koji Crooked in My Mind Mastering Danl Crooked Mile Mastering Choir Vandals Collection Mastering Lewis & Clarke Blasts of Holy Birth Mastering Birds of Night Birds of Night Mastering 2003 The Escape Engine Celebrity Role Model Assistant Engineer 2004 The Warriors War Is Hell Mastering Assistant 2005 Isadora They'll Never Take Us Alive Mastering Assistant 2005 Calico System They Live Mastering Assistant 2005 The Burning Season The Haze of Infatuation Mastering 2005 Dirty Faces Superamerican Mastering 2005 Tim Reale Story Mastering 2005 Paint It Black Paradise Mastering 2005 The Fire Still Burns Keeping Hope Alive Mastering 2005 Collapsar Collapsar Mastering 2006 McGill Manring Stevens What We Do Mastering 2006 Anagram The Lights Went Up Mastering 2006 Torture Storm Alert Editing 2006 Lifetime Somewhere in the Swamps of Jersey Assistant Mastering Engineer 2006 Bad Wizard Sky High Assistant Mastering Engineer 2006 Wuthering Heights Shadow Cabinet Mastering 2006 Flying Donuts Renewd Attack Mastering Assistant 2006 Incantation Primordial Domination Mastering Assistant 2006 Radio 4 Packing Things Up On the Scene [Edit] Mastering 2006 River City High Not Enough Saturday Nights Mastering 2006 To Live and Shave in L.A. Noon and Eternity Mastering 2006 Music for Girls Music for Girls Mastering 2006 Dirty Faces Get Right with God Mastering 2006 Josef K Entomology Mastering 2006 Android Lust Devour, Rise and Take Flight Mastering Assistant 2006 DK Limb Defy Define Definition Assistant 2006 Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth Sequencing 2006 Barricade Be Heard Mastering 2006 Antilove 6/6/2006 Assistant Engineer 2007 Pain Principle Waiting for the Flies Mastering Assistant 2007 Nakatomi Plaza Unsettled Assistant, Mastering 2007 Amandine Solace in Sore Hands Mastering 2007 Uke of Spaces Corners County So Far on the Way Mastering 2007 Alina Simone Placelessness Mastering 2007 Nurse & Soldier Marginalia Mastering 2007 Kill the Camera Kill the Camera Mastering 2007 The Teeth You're My Lover Now Mastering 2007 Jason Dove We Should Be Together Mastering 2007 John Bustine Waltzes & Pleas Mastering 2007 The Recession Time, Arithmetic and Other Elementary Subjects Not Well Learned Mastering 2007 Sean Madigan Hoen The Liquor Witch Mastering 2007 The Eclectic Collective The Flux Mastering 2007 One False Move Some Kind of Healing Mastering 2007 Weird Owl Nuclear Psychology Mastering 2007 Telenovela Star Love Lust Sci-Fi & Monsters Mastering 2007 Avec Lines Mastering 2007 Saints Never Surrender Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst Mastering 2007 Capital Homefront Mastering 2007 The High Strung Get the Guests Mastering 2007 Bring Back the Guns Dry Futures Mastering 2007 D. Jay Buggy Baloo Mastering 2007 Mustache! Babes Say the Hottest Things Mastering 2008 Jami Sieber Unspoken Mastering 2008 Final Drive Under the Overpass of America Mastering 2008 I Am The Heat The Future Doesn't Need Us Mastering 2008 The Muckrakers The Concorde Fallacy Mastering 2008 La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of The River Between Vega & Altair Mastering 2008 Franz Nicolay Major General Mastering 2008 Lydia Illuminate Mastering 2008 Destroy Everything Freedom of Speech Means Talk is Cheap Mastering 2008 Osaka Popstar Rock'em O-Sock'em Live! Mastering Assistant 2008 Doug Paisley Doug Paisley Mastering 2008 Saints Never Surrender Brutus Mastering 2008 Century Black Ocean Mastering 2009 Copernicus disappearance Mastering 2009 Spheric Universe Experience Unreal Mastering 2009 Kava Kon Tiki for the Atomic Age Mastering 2009 Higher Giant The First Five Mastering 2009 Acheron The Final Conflict: Last Days Of God Mastering 2009 Parasites Solitary Mastering 2009 Kelly Carmichael Queen Fareena Mastering 2009 Knot Feeder Light Flares Mastering 2009 The Peekers Life in the Air Mastering 2009 Various Artists Just Like Heaven: A Tribute to the Cure Mastering 2009 United States Instant Everything, Constant Nothing Mastering 2009 Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons Mastering 2009 Big Ned Big Ned Mastering 2010 Smoke or Fire The Speakeasy Mastering 2010 Elk City House of Tongues Mastering 2011 Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After Mastering 2011 Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Sing in Japanese Mastering 2011 Title Fight Shed Mastering 2011 Zachary Cale Noise of Welcome Mastering 2011 Mother of Mercy IV: Symptoms of Existence Mastering 2011 Star Fucking Hipsters From the Dumpster to the Grave Mastering 2011 Cobra Skulls Agitations Mastering 2012 Various Artists Vans Warped Tour '12: 2012 Tour Compilation Mastering 2013 Anthony Green Young Legs Mastering 2013 Various Artists Vans Warped Tour 2013 Compilation Mastering 2013 Foxing The Albatross Mastering 2014 Get Dead Bad News Mastering 2014 Various Artists Warped Tour 2014 Compilation Mastering 2014 Braid No Coast Mastering 2014 Various Artists Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited Mastering 2014 Jeff Bridges / Jeff Bridges & the Abiders Live Mastering 2014 Sarah Jaffe Don't Disconnect Mastering 2014 Tigers Jaw Charmer Mastering 2014 Wallflower Summer Daze Mastering 2015 Bettye LaVette Worthy Mastering 2015 Various Artists Warped Tour 2015 Compilation Mastering 2015 Nai Harvest Hairball Mastering 2015 Tom McBride Columbia Mastering 2016 Wynonna Judd Wynonna & the Big Noise Mastering 2016 Relick Twin House Mastering 2016 Glen Phillips Swallowed By The New Mastering 2016 Billy Bragg / Joe Henry Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad Mastering 2016 Real Midnight Birds of Chicago Mastering 2016 Anthony Green Pixie Queen Mastering 2016 Chely Wright I Am the Rain Mastering 2016 Various Artists Warped Tour 2016 Compilation Mastering 2016 Get Dead Honesty Lives Elsewhere Mastering 2016 Bonnie Raitt Dig In Deep Mastering 2016 Jenny Gillespie Cure for Dreaming Mastering 2016 Sprowt 2003 Mastering 2017 Dead Heavens Whatever Witch You Are Mastering 2017 The Barr Brothers Queens of the Breakers Mastering 2017 Rozwell Kid Precious Art Mastering 2017 Sarah Jaffe Bad Baby Mastering 2017 Direct Hit! / PEARS Human Movement Mastering 2017 Various Artists Warped Tour 2017 Compilation Mastering 2018 Amy Helm This Too Shall Light Mastering 2018 The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound Sessions Mastering 2018 Steep Canyon Rangers Out in the Open Mastering 2018 Victor Wainwright Victor Wainwright and the Train Mastering 2018 Brady Rymer / Brady Rymer & the Little Band That Could Revvin' Up the Reindeer Mastering 2018 Cicada Rhythm Everywhere I Go Mastering 2018 Birds of Chicago Love In Wartime Mastering 2018 Birds of Chicago American Flowers Mastering 2018 Former Member Old Youth Mastering 2018 Joe Henry Thrum Mastering 2018 Eric Lindell Revolution In Your Heart Mastering 2018 Belly Dove Mastering 2018 Sam Phillips World On Sticks Mastering 2018 Christine Rosander Been a Long Time Mastering 2018 Two Medicine Astropsychosis Mastering 2018 The Milk Carton Kids All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do Mastering 2019 Foy Vance To Memphis Mastering 2019 E.B. The Younger To Each His Own Mastering 2019 Rhiannon Giddens There Is No Other Mastering 2019 Carla Olson / Todd Wolfe The Hidden Hills Sessions Mastering 2019 Danny Lynn Wilson Peace Of Mind Mastering 2019 Over the Rhine Love & Revelation Mastering 2019 Matt Andersen Halfway Home by Morning Mastering 2019 Foy Vance From Muscle Shoals Mastering 2019 Doug Seegers A Story I Got to Tell Mastering