Engineering · Performance

Dave Pensado

real name Frank David Pensado

Dave Pensado is credited on 984 releases across 489 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1984–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

Start your shelf →Open in app

984

Credits

489

Albums

5

Decades active

263

In collections

Biography

source

Showing the Discogs bio

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. He mixes between 200 and 250 songs a year at Larrabee Studios in Los Angeles. When recording, he usually records at Echo Bar Studios in North Hollywood.
On September 12, 2011, he started a weekly show called Pensado's Place with Herb Trawick. The show is about engineering techniques and interviews a guest Mixer, Producer or Artist each episode.
On July 20, 2013, Dave Pensado and Herb 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.

Bio from Discogs

Credited work

984 releases · 489 albums · active 1984–2025

  • Engineering · 1,399
  • Performance · 64
  • Production · 45
  • Other credits · 9

Studios: The Enterprise · Larrabee Sound Studios · Larrabee North · Enterprise Studios

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

Around the web

See who really made the music.

Gatefold maps every producer, engineer, and player across your shelf — the credits no one else surfaces.

Start your shelf →

Free forever. Works with 10 records or 10,000.