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Pete Weiss is a New England-based producer/engineer/mixer/musician. His unfussy, "artist first" work has earned him a reputation as an outstanding producer who can jump between musical genres and is unafraid to ignore stylistic convention. Notable artists Weiss has worked with include Charlie Chesterman, Chris Brokaw, Peter Holsapple, Kustomized, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Doug Yule, Moe Tucker, Aimee Mann, Lee Ranaldo, Bell X1, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Two Dollar Pistols, Bow Thayer & Levon Helm, Hayley Thompson-King and many others.

In 1989 he co-founded Zippah Studio in Boston. In 2004, he built and opened Verdant Studio, an "open room" retreat-style studio with artist lodging in rural Vermont which he operated until late 2020, when he returned to Boston to concentrate on mixing and mastering at Jade Cow Music Post Production Services.  As of early 2025, he moved the studio to southern Rhode Island, where he is now based.

When not in the studio, Weiss fronts the instrumental band The Weisstronauts, is a member of the experimental pop collective known as Sool, and plays guitar/sings in Valley of Weights.  In early 2025, he joinedMINIBEAST as their new full time bass player.  Between 2017 and 2021, he collaborated with eclectic vocalist/songwriter Hayley Thompson-King, playing guitar with her and producing her debut album "Psychotic Melancholia."  He released a solo album in 1996 and three albums while fronting the subversive Pete Weiss & the Rock Band from 1995-2000. He has scored four independent films, "Methods" (1998), "Metal" (2001), "Bad Gravity" (with Sool 2006), and "The Arcadian Ideal" (2007).

He is a Senior Contributor for Tape Op Magazine, writing reviews of audio equipment as well as conducting interviews with recording industry figures. Over the years he has served on many panels & workshops at Tape Op's and Potluck Audio's conferences. In the early 1990's Weiss authored two books on baseball, "Baseball's All Time Goats" and "Longshots!", both published by Adams Media.

Artists interested in working with Pete can contact him via gmail: peteweiss2000

News:

Pete continues to do more and more mastering work, both for digital and vinyl releases... Vinyl projects are often done in conjunction with Jeff Powell (who cuts the lacquer at Sam Phillips, Memphis) for boutique vinyl-only label Run Out Groove.
Recent albums mastered by Pete include The Jayhawks' critically-acclaimed XOXO album, along with Gary Louris' last two solo album, deluxe reissues by Morphine, the Beau Brummels, Marshall Crenshaw, Type O Negative, Cher, Devo, Juliana Hatfield, Belly, Dr. John, Dusty Springfield and more. 

A few years back, Pete collaborated with Chris Ballew (Caspar Babypants, Presidents of the United States of America) on a 7" single for UK-based label WIAIWYA. The pair swapped recordings every Friday until two songs were complete, hence they called themselves The Friday Swaps.

Influential roots-pop-cowpunk band Scruffy The Cat got the long-overdue anthology treatment from two labels.  Sony Music digitally released Time Never Forgets: The Anthology, the band's complete catalog of two albums and two EP's. Simultaneously, Omnivore Recordings released The Good Goodbye, a comprehensive collection of previously-unreleased rarities. Pete assisted with remastering the Sony collection, and compiled, remastered/restored the Omnivore album (and also wrote the liner notes).

Press etc...

Why Vinyl Sounds Different: Mojo Flucke chats with Pete.

Interview/podcast on Master Your Mix, 2023.

Pete Weiss interview on the Working Class Audio podcast.

"Pete Weiss Interviews Pete Weiss" in Tape Op Magazine online. There are at least two engineer/producer Pete Weisses.  The "other" one was most active in the 60's and 70's and worked with artists such as Bill Evans, Looking Glass (known for "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)", Edgar Winter, Barbra Streisand and others.  These two Petes became friendly a few years ago and the younger Pete figured it would be fun to conduct an interview with the elder Pete.  Confused?  Read the interview...

Interview (with Rafi Sofer of the Invisible Rays), discussing instrumental rock for Jonathan Donaldson's blog.

A podcast from Björgvin Benediktsson's excellent Audio Issues site. Pete talks about simple and not-so-simple things that happen in a recording studio.

A somewhat old interview with Mojo Flucke for Popdose...