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About Me

Adam Ayan is a Mastering Engineer in the music industry...he works at Gateway Mastering studios in Portland, ME, and began his mastering career as assistant to mastering legend Bob Ludwig. Adam's mastering credits include projects for Faith Hill, The Rolling Stones, Nine Inch Nails, Sarah McLachlan, The Foo Fighters, Carrie Underwood, A Perfect Circle, Linkin Park, Rush, Paul Westerberg, Kelly Clarkson, Keith Urban, Teddy Geiger, Bob Marley, Phish, Tim McGraw and Nirvana, among others. In 2006 Adam won his first Grammy Award for his mastering work on Jelly Roll Morton's "The Complete Library of Congress Recordings". In 2007, Adam won 2 Latin Grammy Awards for his mastering work on the Juan Luis Guerra album "La Llave De Mi Corazon." Adam was nominated again this year (the 50th Annual Grammy Awards) for a Grammy Award in the category of "Album of the Year" for his mastering work on Vince Gill's latest release "These Days." He has also been nominated for several TEC Awards, including nominations for his surround mastering work on the Nine Inch Nails album "With Teeth", surround mastering work on the Barenaked Ladies album "Barenaked Ladies Are Me", surround mastering work on the Dream Theater album "Score XOX", and mastering for the Rascal Flatts single "What Hurts The Most". Adam has mastered several #1 albums across various genres of music, and has over 40 Gold, Platinum & Multi-Platinum projects to his credit to date. Adam is also the Chairman and a Co-Founder of the Portland Music Foundation, a new non-profit organization whose charge is to better organize, support, nurture, and promote the thriving music scene of Portland, ME.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Great musicians making great music! About Adam's "friends": amongst some very cool Portland, ME artists and organizations, Adam's "top friends" include artists whom he has worked with recently. For more info check out: www.adamayan.com and www.gatewaymastering.com.

My Blog

Adam interviewed for Music Connection magazine!

Music Connection magazine interviewed Adam Ayan and 3 other mastering engineers for an article titled: "4 Masters of Mastering Candidly Reveal Their Unique Secrets". The article has been published in ...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:20:00 GMT

Adam Ayan featured in The Lowell Sun!

Adam was recently featured in an article in the Lowell Sun! Rachel R. Briere of the Lowell Sun wrote about Adam's recent Grammy nomination and his connection to Lowell and the University of Massachuse...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:48:00 GMT

The University of Massachusetts at Lowell Grammy Award press release.

Adam was recently featured in a press release from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell! Adam is an alumnus of the UMass Lowell Sound Recording Technology program, and was nominated for a Grammy ...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:47:00 GMT

The University of Southern Maine web news story.

Recently, the University of Southern Maine wrote a news story about Adam and his work at Gateway Mastering, his work with the Portland Music Foundation, and his part time faculty role at the USM Scho...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:45:00 GMT

Adam featured in The USM Free Press.

The University of Southern Maine's own weekly newspaper The Free Press recently wrote an article about Adam. Check it out! http://media.www.usmfreepress.org/media/storage/paper311/new s/2008/03/03/...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:42:00 GMT

Adam is nominated for another Grammy!

Adam is nominated this year (the 50th Annual Grammy Awards) in the category of "Album of the Year" for his mastering work on Vince Gill's latest release "These Days." Vince Gill is also nominate...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:52:00 GMT

Adam Ayan wins 2 Latin Grammy Awards!

Adam Ayan won 2 Latin Grammy Awards at the 8th Annual Latin Grammys in Las Vegas on Thursday, November 8th, 2007. Adam won in the categories of "Best Engineered Album", and "Album Del Ano (Album of th...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:41:00 GMT

Adam & Gateway Mastering enjoy 3 consecutive weeks of 1 albums!

For three consecutive weeks albums mastered at Gateway Mastering & DVD debut at 1 on the Billboard 200 chart! Reba McEntire's latest release "Reba Duets" debuted at 1 on the Billboard 200 chart f...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:40:00 GMT

Juan Luis Guerra and Adam Ayan are nominated for Latin Grammys!

Juan Luis Guerra has 5 nominations at the 8th Annual Latin Grammy Awards for "La Llave De Mi Corazon" (the album and the song)! "La Llave De Mi Corazon" is nominated for "Album of the Year", "Record o...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:51:00 GMT

2007 TEC Award nominations - Adam has 3 of ’em!

Adam has three nominations in the 2007 TEC (Technical Excellence and Creativity) Awards! For "Creative Achievement" Adam is nominated twice in the "Surround Sound Production" category (Barenaked Ladie...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:47:00 GMT