Alan Meyerson

Alan Meyerson
Birth name	Alan Meyerson
Born	1958
Occupation	Composer, conductor, arranger, pianist, musician, songwriter
Years active	TBA

Alan Meyerson is one of the greatest movie scoring mixers of the modern era. With 200+ credits on IMDb and double that amount on AllMusic.com, Meyerson has an unparalleled wealth of experience in engineering and mixing in general, and scoring mixing in particular. He has worked with leading film score composers like James Newton Howard, John Powell, Harry Gregson-Williams, and Danny Elfman, and has a particularly long-standing working relationship with the great Hans Zimmer that continues to this day.

Meyerson’s credits as a scoring mixer include blockbuster movies like Man of Steel, Iron Man, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Inception, The Dark Knight, Kung Fu Panda 1 & 2, Despicable Me 1 & 2, The Last Samurai, Gladiator and Hannibal. In addition to this, Meyerson has a number of high-level music mixing credits dating mostly from the 1980s, including Bryan Ferry, New Order, Etta James, and OMD. During that time Meyerson also worked with some of the great New York remixers, like Arthur Baker and Shep Pettibone, and his background in rock and club mixing means that he has a unique reputation in Hollywood as the go-to man for a tougher, more aggressive film score sound.

Career

Meyerson’s career trajectory has involved several major switches. He started out in the 1976 as a classical music major at Brooklyn College, studying trumpet, but, he recalls, “It immediately became clear to me that I did not have the skills or desire to play the trumpet professionally. Walking down the hall at Brooklyn College I discovered its sound studio, and instantly felt like I had found a home. I ended up working at that studio for a year.”

In 1977, Meyerson got a job at a commercial studio in Manhattan called Counterpoint, where he helped record commercials and jingles. Belgian-Armenian song-writer and producer Marc Aryan passed through on the 4th of July, 1979 and invited Meyerson to work at his studio near Brussels in Belgium. Comments Meyerson, “The most magical thing while working there was that I ended up recording and mixing an album for Chet Baker.”

Meyerson returned to New York after half a year, in 1980, and went on to work in several studios, amongst them The Hit Factory, A&R Recording (Phil Ramone’s studio at the time), and eventually Arthur Baker’s studio. “Arthur liked what I was doing and offered me a job, and I ended up working with big names like Bob Dylan, Diana Ross and Carly Simon, doing loads of remixes and club mixes. During this time I also mixed six songs on Bryan Ferry’s Bête Noir album, which was the first really prestigious album project I’d worked on. It set off my career.”

Meyerson moved to LA in 1987, and worked as a free-lance engineer and mixer with many high profile names, but “when hip-hop started the music industry changed and I lost interest. I stopped working and trained to become a chiropractor.” A chance meeting in 1994 provided another major shift in Meyerson’s life. “I met Hans Zimmer and did a small session for him, and he really liked it, and asked me back. And here I am, 200 movies later!”

Meyerson rents a space Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions studio complex in Santa Monica. His mix room contains, he explains, “a Euphonix System 5 digital desk, a bunch of Pro Tools systems, ATC monitors, and some analogue gear, that appears to decrease every year. It’s a very comfortable room and a great mix environment. There are three mix rooms at Remote Control, and they all have the System 5, so they are interchangeable. You can start a mix in one room and continue it in another without a glitch.”

Regarding Meyerson’s reputation in Hollywood as having a tougher, more aggressive sound, he explains, “All these years of doing rock and dance and pop music really tightened up and hardened my sound. That went over pretty well with the people that like a tougher sound, and it allowed me to find a niche. I have, for example, over the years built up a collection of microphones that have been modified to make them a little more aggressive and in-your-face sounding, and am not afraid to use compression and other effects on the orchestra.”

“I also realised after meeting Hans in 1994 that my skill set is more suited to film music than to record making, because having been a classical musician originally means that I read music and understand orchestral music. Plus I have a love of experimentation. When I tried to push the envelope while making records I would sometimes be told that it’s not what they wanted because it wasn’t what was on the radio. In the film world you don’t have that limitation. If they feel that what you do fits the movie, they love it. So I really enjoy creating soundscapes that are totally unique.”

Alan Meyerson has conducted his first Mix With The Masters seminar at La Fabrique in the summer of 2014. He acknowledges that “it is tough today for young people to get into the industry,” and explains that this is one reason why Remote Control Productions has an active internship program. Meyerson’s MWTM seminar is another expression of his desire to help the up and coming to make it in the industry.

“To come through you need to have a fundamental knowledge of music,” explains Meyerson. “Even if you don’t read music or have never studied an instrument, you really need to be a lover of music. You also need to have a technical mind, and an intense desire to be successful. That’s what I look for, and I then teach the rest.”

“For the Mix With The Masters seminar I’ve contacted several of the major composers I have worked with, because I want to bring cues from several different movies. So from Hans I will bring a cue from Inception, from James Newton Howard a cue from King Kong, from Henry Jackman a cue from Wreck-It Ralph and from Ramin Djawadi a cue from Pacific Rim. I might also bring a cue from Junkie XL for Divergent, which has the most aggressive-sounding score I have ever worked on.”

“All these movies have completely different styles of film scores, and I am going to walk people through the process of how they have been created, and how I mixed them. I also hope that people will bring their own music, and so we can put that up and talk about it. The idea is that you keep your vision in your head, and you then figure out how to accomplish that in each particular case. Every single film score is different.”

Movie Land

Alan Meyerson has hired to record and mix the film's score with Movie Land Animation Studios and Movie Land Entertainment.

Filmography

• Speed (1994)
• Armageddon (1998)
• Antz (1998)
• The Prince of Egypt (1999)
• The Road to El Dorado (2000)
• Gladiator (2000)
• Pearl Harbor (2001)
• Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
• Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2002)
• Shrek 4-D (2003)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
• Shrek 2 (2004)
• Madagascar (2005)
• Curious George (2006)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
• Over the Hedge (2006)
• Impy's Island (2006)
• Transformers (2007)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
• Bee Movie (2007)
• Kung Fu Panda (2008)
• Surviving Sid (2008)
• Iron Man (2008)
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
• Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
• Henri 4 (2010)
• Despicable Me (2010)
• Megamind (2010)
• Tron: Legacy (2010)
• Rango (2011)
• Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
• Puss in Boots (2011)
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2012)
• Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
• Pacific Rim (2013)
• Despicable Me 2 (2013)
• The Smurfs 2 (2013)
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
• Big Hero 6 (2014)
• Interstellar (2014)
• Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
• Pixels (2015)
• Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
• The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
• Sing (2016)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
• Wonder Woman (2017)
• Despicable Me 3 (2017)
• Dunkirk (2017)
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
• Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
• The Greatest Showman (2017)
• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
• Major Lazer: The Movie (2018)
• The Predator (2018)
• Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)
• Robin Hood (2018)
• Smash of Claws (2018)
• The Hi-Tech and Science Fiction Movie (2018)
• Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
• Green Book (2018)
• Stuart Little (2018)
• Sarcastics (2018)
• Aquaman (2018)
• Arctic (2018)
• Light It Up (2019)
• Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
• The Animals in the Attic (2019)
• Captain Marvel (2019)
• The Queen's Corgi (2019)
• Brightburn (2019)
• The Day That Pidgeon's Talk (2019)
• Aladdin (2019)
• The Crown (2019)
• Shaun and Roger: Roger Breaks the Internet (2019)
• Dark Phoenix (2019)
• Gwen and Dan (2019)
• Carmen Sandiego (2019)
• Charlotte's Web (2019)
• The Lion King (2019)
• The Running Chase Guy (2019)
• The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
• The JH Movie Collection Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
• Ghost in the Shell (2019)
• Chocolate Fever (2019)
• Spider-Gwen (2019)
• Loppy the Dog 2: The Second Movie (2019)
• GoGo Tomago (2019)
• A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019)
• Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
• Chunko (2020)
• Spectrum (2020)
• The Legend of Disguise (2020)
• Technoville (2020])
• The Hunger Games (2020)
• The JH Movie Collection Movie: The Fate of the Tour (2020)
• Las Vegas (2020)
• Faster Bike (2020)
• Jin (2020)
• Mr. Magoo (2020)
• Spider-Gwen 2 (2020)
• Untitled Movie Land Animation Studios crossover film (2022)
• Shrek 5 (TBA)

External links

• Alan Meyerson on IMDb

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Part of WarnerMedia (AT&T) Filmography Released Stickman: The Movie (2014) • Reggie and the Penguin (2015) • Loppy the Dog (2016) • Birds (2017) • The Street of San Francisco (2017) • The Polar Express (2017) • Eddie (2018) • Major Lazer: The Movie (2018) • Penguinopolis (2018) • Smash of Claws (2018) • The Wampanoag Movie (2018) • The Hi-Tech and Science Fiction Movie (2018) • Doug (2018) • Funimals (2018) • Stuart Little (2018) • Sarcastics (2018) • Animals of Spy (2018) • Light It Up (2019) • Birds 2 (2019) • The Hampster Movie (2019) • Stickman 2: Larry's Adventure (2019) • Sphere (2019) • The Crown (2019) • Charlotte's Web (2019) • Animal Party (2019) • Car Chase (2019) • Ghost in the Shell (2019) • Star Trek (2019) • Loppy the Dog 2: The Second Movie (2019) • GoGo Tomago (2019) • Sarcastics 2 (2019) • The Great Spy Racers (2019) • Chunko (2020) • Ned's Newt (2020) • The Legend of Disguise (2020) • Spanish Empire (2020) • Twister (2020) • The Trumpet of the Swan (2020) • Technoville (2020) • Scrambled Eggs Super! (2020) • The Hunger Games (2020) Produced with Sony Pictures Animation The Animals in the Attic (2019) • The Secret Life of Animals 2 (2019) • Dimensions (2019) • Shaun and Roger: Roger Breaks the Internet (2019) • Gwen and Dan (2019) • Carmen Sandiego (2019) • Hoverboard (2019) • Chocolate Fever (2019) • Spider-Gwen (2019) • Go (2019) • Everest (2019) • Grossology (2019) • Bunny (2019) • Cool Girls (2020) • Spectrum (2020) Upcoming Romeo and Juliet (2020) • Las Vegas (2020) • Mr. Magoo (2020) • Spider-Gwen 2 (2020) • Panko the Dragon (2021) • Famous 5 (2021) • Carmen Sandiego 2 (2021) • Voltron (2021) • The Hollow (2021) • The Last Kids on Earth (2021) • Grossology 2 (2021) • Untitled Romeo and Juliet sequel (2022) Produced with Aardman Animations The JH Movie Collection Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) Upcoming The JH Movie Collection Movie: The Fate of the Tour (2020) • The JH Movie Collection Movie 4: Lost in Florida (2021) As Ted-LaPai Productions A Bird's Tale (1994) • The Secret of Ace (1995) • Cycle Throughout the World (1996) • Life of Animals (1996) • Power Up (1997) • One Little Rabbit (1997) • El Fuego (1997) • A Trip to Denmark (1998) • The Secret of Ace 2 (2000) • Yeti (2000) • A Bird's Tale 2 (2000) • Life of Animals 2 (2001) • Magnus • Los Altos (2002) • Two Little Rabbits (2002) • Bunnies on the Streets (2003) • The Animals Movie (2004) • Kevin the Lost Dog (2006) • A Trip to Los Angeles (2007) • The Final Chapter (2008) Upcoming Faster Bike (2020) • Cuphead (2020) • Jin (2020) • Carlos & Ricky: Into the Future (2020) • Reggie and the Penguin 2 (2020) • Shank (2020) • Spy Penguins (2020) Associated productions Sarcastics (2018) Direct-to-video films The Hunger Games (2020) Television series Stickman: The Series (2016-present) • Tom the Hand (2016-present) • All Hail Loppy the Dog (2017-present) • How Penguins Goes to Kansas (2017; television film) • The JH Movie Collection Show (2018-present) • The Christopher the Stickman Show (2020-present) Franchises Stickman (2014-present) • Loppy the Dog (2016-present) • The JH Movie Collection Movie (2018-present) • Sony's Movie Land Universe (2019-present) • Tom the Hand (season 3; 2016, 2019-present) People Directors Ted V. Miller • Robert Zemeckis • Stephen Heneveld • Mike Mitchell • Don Hall • Phil Lord and Christopher Miller • Chris Williams • Chris Miller • Jenny Harder • Bob Persichetti • Peter Ramsey • Rodney Rothman • Tom McGrath • William Renschen • Ella Ray • Dominic Formella • Alejandro Munoz • Marcos Rivera Producers Chris Meledandri • Kristina Reed • Bonnie Arnold • Roy Conli • Roy Lee • Phil Lord and Christopher Miller • Jordan Kerner • Don Hahn • Darla K. Anderson • Dan Lin • John Lasseter • Avi Arad • Amy Pascal • William Renschen • Ella Ray • Dominic Formella • Alejandro Munoz • Marcos Rivera Writers Karey Kirkpatrick • Nicholas Stoller • Rodney Rothman • Phil Lord and Christopher Miller • Jordan Roberts • John Davis • Peter Lord • Nick Park • William Renschen Executives/Associated figures Ted V. Miller • Michael LaPai • Monty LaBueno • George MacGuffin • Christopher MacGuffin • Chris Meledandri Animators and visual/special effects artists Gal Gadot • Jamie Chung • Bex Taylor-Klaus • Jeffrey Katzenberg • Rich Moore • Roy Conli • Gary Trousdale • Phil Lord and Christopher Miller • Steven Spielberg • Duncan Rouleau • Steven T. Seagle • Steven Yeun • Jenny Harder • Hailee Steinfeld • Shiyoon Kim • Panat Thamrongsombutsakul • John Knoll • Craig Hammack • Simon J. Smith • Samik Roy Choudhury • Erik-Jan de Boer • Cedric Nicolas-Troyan • Emilio Ruiz del Río Signature voice actors/actress Ben Stiller • Adam Sandler • Jim Carrey • Gal Gadot • Hailee Steinfeld • Jamie Chung • Bex Taylor-Klaus • Michael J. Fox • Andy Samberg • Keegan-Michael Key • Rihanna • John DiMaggio • Tenzing Norgay Trainor • Shameik Moore • Jake Johnson Signature musicians Henry Jackman • James Newton Howard • Lorne Balfe • Major Lazer • Alan Meyerson • Daniel Pemberton Signature character designer Monty LaBueno • Ronnie del Carmen • Jin Kim • Shiyoon Kim Visual Development & Storyboard Artists Dante Eriksen • Cody Cameron • Andrew Stanton • Shiyoon Kim • Jin Kim • Geoff Johns • Ronnie del Carmen Related topics Related media and projects Birdy Animation • Touchstone Animation Studios • Sphere Ball Studios • Shank Films • Panko and Panda Studios Miscellaneous Warner Bros. films (Unproduced Warner Bros. projects • WAG films • Warner Bros. animated films • Warner Bros. Animation franchises and productions) See also Movie Land • Movie Land Entertainment • Warner Bros. Pictures • Warner Bros. Animation • Warner Animation Group • Acquisition of Movie Land by Warner Bros. • The JH Movie Collection Movie (2018) • Gwen and Dan: Level Two (2020)