record producer
A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles. Typically the job involves hands-on oversight of recording sessions; ensu ...
and
audio engineer
An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduc ...
. He has won thrice the Producer of the Year Awards at
New England Music Awards
The New England Music Awards are an annual award show. Bands and artists from the New England region of the United States are eligible for receipt of the awards.
Nomination process
Recipients are selected through their recordings, appearances ...
in 2013, 2018 and 2019. He also won the Studio Producer of the Year Award at
Boston Music Awards
Founded in 1987, the Boston Music Awards are a set of music awards given annually that showcase talent in the Boston, Massachusetts, area.
Past shows have featured such notable talent as Aerosmith, Paula Cole, Esperanza Spalding, Boston (band), ...
in 2019. McLaughlin founded ''37’ Productions'', a music recording studio based in
Boston
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, in 2004. McLaughlin has assisted and collaborated with producers such as
Andy Johns
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Carmen Rizzo
Carmen Rizzo (born April 8, 1964) is an American record producer, mixer, programmer, DJ, remixer and recording artist, based in Los Angeles. The two-time Grammy nominee has worked with Seal, Coldplay, Paul Oakenfold, Alanis Morissette, Dido, Jem ...
. He has worked with a variety of bands and musicians, including
Matchbox Twenty
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Queensrÿche
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Dirty Vegas
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Sarah Blacker
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Raised in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Sarah Blacker graduated from Wellesley High School before completing a degree at the Berklee College ...
Yoan Garneau
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Dark New Day
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Elliott Smith
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Death Row Records
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, among many others. McLaughlin is also an assistant professor in the Music Production and Engineering Major at Berklee. He authored and published ''Mixing with iZotope'', a mixing guide about the process of mixing recorded audio by
iZotope
iZotope, Inc. is an audio technology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. iZotope develops professional audio software for audio recording, mixing, broadcast, sound design, and mastering which can ...