Joe Zook represents the gold standard of music mixers.
You don't have to go too far up or down the radio dial to hear his work: Katy Perry, OneRepublic, Modest Mouse, Faith Hill and Plain White T's among the Top Ten Billboard singles (Katy Perry's "Waking Up In Vegas", OneRepublic's "Apologize") and #1 albums he enjoys worldwide.
At the end of his busiest year, 2010, Joe's had several #1 singles with OneRepublic including the #1 track on iTunes Rock charts with OneRepublic's "Secrets". In the past two years, Joe's had seven (7) top 5 Five hits including two by Katy Perry, four by OneRepublic and one by Plain White T's.
Joe just mixed two singles for the Hives entitled "Go Right Ahead" and "1000 Answers".
Joe just mixed a Jordin Sparks single for the upcoming Disney film, "African Cats", a Jacqueline Lord remix of "Killer", a Panic! At The Disco single and an album for Midway State.
Joe's mixed the latest release by Plain White T's (Hollywood) entitled Wonders of the Younger due out in late 2010. This new PWT CD is led by their radio smash, "Rhythm of Love". Joe's also recently mixed singles for Sky Ferreira (Capitol), VV Brown (Capitol), Faith Hill (Warner Bros/ Nashville), All Star Weekend (Hollywood Records), Kate Voegele (Interscope), Jason Reeves (Warner Bros.) and Joe Brooks (Universal/Republic).
Earlier this year, Joe's mixed the upcoming eponymous release by Brendan James (Universal/Decca), Joel and Luke's upcoming debut release (Warner Bros.), David Gibson's upcoming release (Epic), Brooke Fraser's third album, Flags, (Sony Australia) led by her Beatlesque first single off this engaging release, "Something In The Water,"and mixed the debut of Ashlyne Huff entitled Heart of Gold. You'll also know the radio remixes of "All The Right Moves" and "Marching On" by OneRepublic.
In 2009, Joe was lauded for his work on Sinead O'Connor and Mary J. Blige's single, "This Is To Mother You". It is a remake of O'Connor's 1996 song, "This is To Mother You," as a part of the Girls Are Not For Sale campaign to bring awareness to the issues of child sex trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of American girls. The song's proceeds benefit GEMS: Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, the nation's largest non-profit organization designed to empower American girls and young women, ages 12-21, who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking.
In that same year, Joe mixed OneRepublic second album, Waking Up (Mosley) and Dashboard Confessional's After the Ending (Vagrant/DGC/Interscope) including singles off both albums. He also mixed a track from indie sensation Modest Mouse's No One's First and You're Next (Epic). Joe was also in the studio with superstart producer Ryan Tedder recording Leona Lewis, Kristinia DeBarge and Adam Lambert.
An easy-going, top line mix engineer, Joe is renowned for his gracious style and his uncanny ability to not only listen to what the artist and producer are saying but 'hear' their wishes and that enables him to deliver exactly what they desire in their final mixes: simply incredible-sounding, memorable songs.
If you've heard, "Stop And Stare" by OneRepublic or any of the songs off their runaway best-selling release, Dreaming Out Loud (Interscope), you've heard Joe's mixes. Katy Perry's boiling-hot release, the chart-topping #1 album One Of The Boys was mixed by Joe as was Modest Mouse's sensational We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (Epic). Timbaland's "Apologize", eight weeks-plus #1 at Pop Radio in the States and Mika's #1 album, Life In Cartoon Motion, the hit singles---"Grace Kelly" and "Lollipop"---those were recorded by Joe.
Joe Zook has had the pleasure of working with Sara Bareilles/Ryan Tedder, Pink, Kevin Rudolf, The Goo Goo Dolls, Ryan Tedder, Sara Bareilles, Tricky, Kelly Clarkson, Mike, Anna Nalick, Ryan Cabrerra and Liz Phair in addition to OneRepublic, Katy Perry and Modest Mouse alongside producers Ryan Tedder, Butch Walker, Glen Ballard and Jack Joseph Puig. Joe's modest approach to his stellar work and his unique ability and burning desire to deliver brilliant mixes has allowed Joe the privilege of working alongside such superstar talents.
Joe works out of his personal studio, 4014 Mixing, located in Southern California.




















