Mark Linett

Birthplace

Glendale, California

Biography

Mark Linett is an American record producer and audio engineer who is best known for his remixing and remastering of the Beach Boys' catalog. Since 1988, he has been the engineer for Brian Wilson's recordings. He has also worked with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, Los Lobos, Rickie Lee Jones and Randy Newman. Linett is based in Glendale, California, where he owns a private studio, Your Place or Mine Recording. He has also been the broadcast music mixer at the IHeart Radio Theater in Burbank, California since 2014 and from 2009 to 2025 was the co-owner of M and B Audio Remote Recording whose remote truck "Horizon" did many high profile shows including the Grammys, The Iheart Awards, and The CMAs as well as benefit shows for the victims of Hurricane Sandy and Fireaid to help the victims of the 2025 wildfires in Southern California In 1996 Linett created the first true stereo mix of the Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds and has co-produced nearly all of the band's archival releases, including The Pet Sounds Sessions (1997), Endless Harmony Soundtrack (1998), Hawthorne, CA (2003), and The Smile Sessions (2011) as well as the Feel Flows (2021) and Sail On Sailor (2022) box sets. In addition to earning three[needs update] Grammy Awards, he was nominated for Best Engineered Album for his work on Brian Wilson Presents Smile (2004). In 2014, Linett appeared as Beach Boys' engineer Chuck Britz in the Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy. To create remixes of the Beach Boys' catalog, Linett uses ProTools as his DAW of choice, although he keeps analog tape machines for the purpose of transferring to digital. Since 2000, producer Alan Boyd, the band's archive manager, has been his longtime partner for such projects.