Vanessa Parr

Vanessa Parr is a Los Angeles-based recording engineer. A 2004 MP&E graduate of Berklee College of Music, she has had the pleasure of working with a variety of prestigious and award-winning artists, producers, and composers. She has also worked extensively on many film and television scores, as a recordist, mixer, and editor. Parr’s path began as a staff engineer at the Village Recorder where, for 12 years, she had the good fortune to work with many influential producers and engineers, including T Bone Burnett, Larry Klein, Hal Wilner, Mike Piersante, Ed Cherney, Jim Scott, Don Was, John Kurlander, and Thomas Newman, among others. This foundation helped nurture her recording aesthetic as roots-based and organic.
 
Thanks to this background, Parr has enjoyed a fruitful career as both a staff and an independent engineer. Although she enjoys all aspects of the recording process, she is the happiest in a studio with a live band, a Neve console, a pair of ATC monitors, and as many ribbon mics as she can find. She is excited to join the Berklee faculty and continue her work as an educator that began as a staff assistant many years ago, helping to provide students with the tools they need to fulfill their creative vision in the studio.