Tom Lord-Alge
Tom Lord-Alge is an American music engineer and mixer. He began his career at The Hit Factory in New York. Subsequently, TLA was the resident mixer at what used to be known as: "South Beach Studios" located on the ground floor of the Marlin Hotel.
Lord-Alge received two Grammy Awards for his work on Steve Winwood's Back in the High Life, and Roll With It —both winning in the Best Engineered Recording – Non-Classical category. Lord-Alge's third Grammy was for Santana's Supernatural, which won Album of the Year. Lord-Alge has mixed records for U2, Simple Minds, The Rolling Stones, P!nk, Peter Gabriel, OMD, Sarah McLachlan, Dave Matthews Band, blink-182, Avril Lavigne, Sum 41, Live, Manic Street Preachers, Story of the Year and Marilyn Manson, among others.
Career
Tom's first major project was engineering Steve Winwood's Grammy winning album Back in the High Life, and he went on to engineer Winwood's Grammy follow up Roll With It in addition to co-producing its number one hit song "Higher Love". He then left Unique Recording to work as a freelance engineer and mixer.Tom's turning point as a mixing engineer was in 1993 after mixing Crash Test Dummies' God Shuffled His Feet, featuring their hit "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm". Shortly thereafter he mixed Live's multi-platinum Throwing Copper, which to date has sold over eight million copies in the United States. The success of these albums marked the beginning of Lord-Alge's professional career as a mix engineer. He mixed out of South Beach Studios in Miami prior to it closing, and is represented exclusively by Global Positioning Services Management in Santa Monica.
Like his brother Chris, Lord-Alge is well known for his extensive use of compression in mix down as both a creative and functional technique.
Personal life
Lord-Alge is one of four brothers and two sisters - two of whom are audio and mix engineers, namely Chris and Jeff Lord-Alge. Their mother was a jazz singer and pianist, while their father sold jukeboxes for a living. After doing live sound engineering for some time, Lord-Alge joined his older brother Chris at Unique Recording in New York City in 1984. He began working as an assistant to Chris, who was then a staff engineer, and later became staff engineer until 1988. Lord-Alge credits his brother Chris as being a strong influence on his early development as an engineer and mixer.Selected Discography
| Artist | Album | Credit |
| 4Him | The Ride | Mix |
| 4Him | The Message | Mix |
| The Academy Is... | Fast Times at Barrington High | Mix |
| After Midnight Project | Let's Build Something to Break | Mix |
| Agents of Good Roots | One by One | Mix |
| Alannah Myles | Rockinghorse | Mix |
| Álex Ubago | 21 meses, 1 semana y 2 días | Mix |
| Alison Moyet | Hoodoo | Mix |
| All Time Low | Nothing Personal | Mix |
| American Music Club | San Francisco | Mix |
| Anastacia | Anastacia | Mix |
| Angela Ammons | Angela Ammons | Mix |
| Angels & Airwaves | We Don't Need to Whisper | Mix |
| Angels & Airwaves | I-Empire | Mix |
| Angels & Airwaves | Love | Mix |
| Angels & Airwaves | The Dream Walker | Mix |
| Annie Lennox | Songs of Mass Destruction | Mix |
| Arthur Baker & the Backbeat Disciples | Merge | Engineer, Mix |
| Artists United Against Apartheid | Sun City | Engineer, Mix |
| Ash Koley | Inventions | Mix |
| Aslyn | Lemon Love | Mix |
| Autopilot Off | Make a Sound | Mix |
| Avril Lavigne | Let Go | Mix |
| Avril Lavigne | Under My Skin | Mix |
| Avril Lavigne | The Best Damn Thing | Mix |
| Backstreet Boys | Never Gone | Mix |
| Bad Ronald | Bad Ronald | Engineer |
| Baha Men | I Like What I Like | Mix |
| Barenaked Ladies | Stunt | Mix |
| Big Head Todd and the Monsters | Beautiful World | Mix |
| Big Head Todd and the Monsters | Live Monsters | Mix |
| Big Mountain | Unity | Mix |
| Big Mountain | Resistance | Mix |
| Bijou Phillips | I'd Rather Eat Glass | Mix |
| Billy Joel | Storm Front | Mix |
| Black 47 | Home of the Brave | Mix |
| Black Grape | It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah | Mix |
| Black Grape | Stupid Stupid Stupid | Mix |
| Black Lab | See the Sun | Co-producer, Mix |
| Black Light Burns | Cruel Melody | Mix |
| Blessid Union of Souls | Blessid Union of Souls | Mix |
| Blink-182 | Enema of the State | Mix |
| Blink-182 | The Mark, Tom and Travis Show | Mix |
| Blink-182 | Take Off Your Pants and Jacket | Mix |
| Blink-182 | Blink-182 | Mix |
| Blink-182 | Neighborhoods | Mix |
| Bliss 66 | Trip to the 13th | Mix |
| Bodyjar | How It Works | Mix |
| The Bogmen | Life Begins at 40 Million | Mix |
| Bon Jovi | Have a Nice Day | Mix |
| Bon Jovi | Tour Box | Mix |
| Bonnie McKee | Trouble | Mix |
| Bowling for Soup | Drunk Enough to Dance | Mix |
| Bowling for Soup | A Hangover You Don't Deserve | Mix |
| Bowling for Soup | The Great Burrito Extortion Case | Mix |
| Boy George | BoyGeorgeDj.com | Engineer |
| Boyzone | Where We Belong | Mix |
| Boys Like Girls | Boys Like Girls | Mix |
| Boys Like Girls | Love Drunk | Mix |
| Breaking Point | Beautiful Disorder | Mix |
| Bros | The Time | Mix |
| C. Gibbs | 29 Over Me | Mix |
| Carly Simon | This Is My Life | Mix |
| Chaka Khan | Destiny | Engineer, Mix |
| Chalk FarM | Notwithstanding | Mix |
| Chantal Kreviazuk | What If It All Means Something | Mix |
| Chantal Kreviazuk | Ghost Stories | Mix |
| Cherry Monroe | The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful | Mix |
| Cheyenne Kimball | The Day Has Come | Mix |
| Chicago | ' | Mix |
| Clarence Clemons | Hero | Mix |
| The Classic Crime | Albatross | Mix |
| Collective Soul | Dosage | Mix |
| Corey Hart | Attitude & Virtue | Co-producer, Engineer, Mix |
| Coti | Malditas canciones | Mix |
| Courtney Jaye | Traveling Light | Mix |
| Courtney Love | America's Sweetheart | Mix |
| Crash Test Dummies | God Shuffled His Feet | Mix |
| Creeper Lagoon | Take Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday | Mix |
| The Cunninghams | Zeroed Out | Mix |
| The Cure | Wild Mood Swings | Mix |
| Dada | El Subliminoso | Mix |
| Dada | Dada | Mix |
| Dada | How to Be Found | Mix |
| Dakona | Perfect Change | Mix |
| Damone | From the Attic | Mix |
| Damone | Out Here All Night | Mix |
| Dave Matthews Band | Under the Table and Dreaming | Mix |
| Dave Matthews Band | Crash | Mix |
| David Johansen | Sweet Revenge | Engineer, Mix |
| Delta Goodrem | Mistaken Identity | Mix |
| The Devlins | Waiting | Mix |
| Dexter Freebish | A Life of Saturdays | Mix |
| Dexter Freebish | Tripped into Divine | Mix |
| Dig | Defenders of the Universe | Mix |
| Dirty Looks | Five Easy Pieces | Mix |
| Dog's Eye View | Daisy | Mix |
| Down with Webster | Time to Win, Vol. 1 | Mix |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous | Worse Than a Fairy Tale | Mix |
| Dum Dums | It Goes Without Saying | Mix |
| Dust for Life | Dust for Life | Mix |
| Earth, Wind & Fire | Touch the World | Engineer, Mix |
| Edwin | Better Days | Mix |
| Elliot Minor | Solaris | Mix |
| Evan and Jaron | Evan and Jaron | Mix |
| Evan Taubenfeld | Welcome to the Blacklist Club | Mix |
| Eve 6 | Horrorscope | Mix |
| Eve 6 | It's All in Your Head | Mix |
| Everclear | Slow Motion Daydream | Mix |
| Evermore | Real Life | Mix |
| The F-Ups | The F-Ups | Mix |
| Faith Hill | Cry | Mix |
| Fall Out Boy | From Under the Cork Tree | Mix |
| Fall Out Boy | Infinity on High | Mix |
| The Fatima Mansions | Lost in the Former West | Mix |
| Fear Factory | Hatefiles | Mix |
| The Feeling | Join With Us | Mix |
| Fefe Dobson | Fefe Dobson | Mix |
| Fig Dish | That's What Love Songs Often Do | Mix |
| Five for Fighting | Slice | Mix |
| Flickerstick | Welcoming Home the Astronauts | Mix |
| Flipp | Flipp | Mix |
| Flyleaf | New Horizons | Mix |
| Fonzi Thornton | Pumpin'... Let Me Show U How Ta Do It | Engineer |
| Force MDs | Chillin | Engineer, Mix |
| Foreigner | Mr. Moonlight | Mix |
| Forever the Sickest Kids | Underdog Alma Mater | Mix |
| Forever the Sickest Kids | ' | Mix |
| Forever the Sickest Kids | Forever the Sickest Kids | Mix |
| Forty Foot Echo | Forty Foot Echo | Mix |
| Fountains of Wayne | Welcome Interstate Managers | Mix |
| Fountains of Wayne | Out-of-State Plates | Mix |
| Fredericks Goldman Jones | Du New Morning au Zénith | Engineer, Mix |
| Fredericks Goldman Jones | Rouge | Mix |
| Fuel | Sunburn | Mix |
| Gavin Christopher | One Step Closer | Engineer, Mix |
| General Public | Rub It Better | Mix |
| Go West | Indian Summer | Mix |
| Gob | How Far Shallow Takes You | Mix |
| Gob | F.U. | Mix |
| Goo Goo Dolls | Gutterflower | Mix |
| Good Charlotte | Good Charlotte | Mix |
| The Gracious Few | The Gracious Few | Mix |
| Grant Lee Buffalo | Jubilee | Mix |
| The Green Children | Encounter | Mix |
| Greenwheel | Soma Holiday | Mix |
| Guano Apes | Bel Air | Mix |
| Hanson | Middle of Nowhere | Mix |
| Hanson | Snowed In | Mix |
| Hanson | This Time Around | Mix |
| Hanson | Anthem | Mix |
| The Heads | No Talking, Just Head | Mix |
| Hedley | The Show Must Go | Mix |
| Hole | Celebrity Skin | Mix |
| Holly McNarland | Stuff | Mix |
| Hoobastank | Every Man for Himself | Mix |
| INXS | Elegantly Wasted | Engineer, Mix |
| Janice Robinson | The Color Within Me | Engineer, Mix |
| Jeff Beck | Flash | Engineer |
| Jennifer Paige | Positively Somewhere | Mix |
| Jeremy Camp | Beyond Measure | Mix |
| Jimmie's Chicken Shack | Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope | Mix |
| Jimmie's Chicken Shack | Bring Your Own Stereo | Mix |
| Joan Armatrading | Hearts and Flowers | Mix |
| John Waite | Rover's Return | Engineer |
| Johnny Hates Jazz | Tall Stories | Mix |
| Jon McLaughlin | OK Now | Mix |
| Jonas Brothers | It's About Time | Mix |
| Jonny Lang | Long Time Coming | Mix |
| Josh Joplin Group | Useful Music | Mix |
| Jude Cole | Jude Cole | Engineer |
| The Juliana Theory | Love | Mix |
| Keith LeBlanc | Time Traveller | Engineer |
| Kenny Wayne Shepherd | Ledbetter Heights | Mix |
| Kenny Wayne Shepherd | Trouble Is... | Mix |
| Kenny Wayne Shepherd | Live On | Mix |
| Kensington | Rivals | Mix |
| Kensington | Control | Mix |
| Kevin Raleigh | Delusions of Grandeur | Engineer |
| Kopek | White Collar Lies | Mix |
| Korn | Life Is Peachy | Mix |
| La 5ª Estación | Sin Frenos | Mix |
| The Last Goodnight | Poison Kiss | Mix |
| Leona Naess | Comatised | Mix |
| Less Than Jake | Borders & Boundaries | Mix |
| Less Than Jake | Anthem | Mix |
| Less Than Jake | B Is for B-sides | Mix |
| Letter Kills | The Bridge | Mix |
| Letters to Cleo | Wholesale Meats and Fish | Mix |
| Letters to Cleo | Go! | Mix |
| Level 42 | Guaranteed | Mix |
| Lillix | Falling Uphill | Mix |
| Limp Bizkit | Three Dollar Bill, Y'all | Mix |
| Lisa Marie Presley | To Whom It May Concern | Mix |
| Lisa Marie Presley | Now What | Mix |
| Little Steven | Freedom – No Compromise | Mix |
| Live | Mental Jewelry | Mix |
| Live | Throwing Copper | Mix |
| Live | Secret Samadhi | Mix |
| Live | The Distance to Here | Mix |
| Live | Birds of Pray | Mix |
| Live | The Turn | Mix |
| Living in a Box | Living in a Box | Co-producer, Mix |
| Living in a Box | Gatecrashing | Producer, Mix |
| Liz Phair | Whitechocolatespaceegg | Mix |
| Liz Phair | Liz Phair | Mix |
| Liz Phair | Somebody's Miracle | Mix |
| Local H | As Good as Dead | Mix |
| Louise Goffin | Sometimes a Circle | Mix |
| Lucky 7 | Lucky 7 | Mix |
| M2M | Shades of Purple | Mix |
| M2M | The Big Room | Mix |
| Mae | Singularity | Mix |
| Malcolm McLaren | Fans | Engineer |
| Manic Street Preachers | The Holy Bible | Engineer, Mix |
| Manic Street Preachers | Know Your Enemy | Mix |
| Marianas Trench | Masterpiece Theatre | Mix |
| Marilyn Manson | Mechanical Animals | Mix |
| Marilyn Manson | The Last Tour on Earth | Mix |
| Marion Raven | Set Me Free | Mix |
| Marjorie Fair | Self Help Serenade | Mix |
| Mary Lou Lord | Got No Shadow | Mix |
| The Matrix | The Matrix | Mix |
| The Mayfield Four | Second Skin | Mix |
| Me-2-U | Me-2-U | Mix |
| Meg & Dia | Here, Here and Here | Mix |
| Melissa Etheridge | Breakdown | Mix |
| Mesh STL | Lowercase | Mix |
| Mest | Wasting Time | Mix |
| Mest | Destination Unknown | Mix |
| Michael McDonald | Blink of an Eye | Mix |
| Michael Morales | Thump | Mix |
| Michelle Lewis | Little Leviathan | Mix |
| Mick Jagger | Goddess in the Doorway | Mix |
| Miranda Cosgrove | Sparks Fly | Mix |
| Modern Day Zero | Coming Up for Air | Mix |
| Moist | Mercedes 5 and Dime | Mix |
| Motion City Soundtrack | Commit This to Memory | Mix |
| Motion City Soundtrack | Even If It Kills Me | Mix |
| Mrnorth | Lifesize | Mix |
| MxPx | Before Everything & After | Mix |
| Neurotic Outsiders | Neurotic Outsiders | Mix |
| New Found Glory | Catalyst | Mix |
| New Found Glory | Coming Home | Mix |
| Newsboys | Take Me to Your Ladder | Mix |
| Newsboys | Thrive | Mix |
| Newsboys | Go | Mix |
| Nichole Nordeman | Brave | Mix |
| Nonpoint | Statement | Mix |
| O.A.R. | Stories of a Stranger | Mix |
| OK Go | OK Go | Mix |
| One Ok Rock | 35xxxv | Mix |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | The Pacific Age | Engineer |
| Owsley | Owsley | Mix |
| Papa Vegas | Hello Vertigo | Mix |
| Patty Griffin | Flaming Red | Mix |
| Pete Yorn | Musicforthemorningafter | Mix |
| Peter Blakeley | The Pale Horse | Mix |
| Peter Cetera | World Falling Down | Mix |
| Peter Stuart | Propeller | Mix |
| Phil Collins | Testify | Mix |
| Pink | Try This | Mix |
| Pink | I'm Not Dead | Mix |
| Pink | Funhouse | Mix |
| The Pink Spiders | Teenage Graffiti | Mix |
| The Pointer Sisters | Only Sisters Can Do That | Mix |
| Polara | Pantomime | Mix |
| Pound | Same Old Life | Mix |
| Prime STH | Underneath the Surface | Mix |
| Professional Murder Music | Professional Murder Music | Mix |
| Pure | Pureafunlia | Mix |
| Radford | Radford | Mix |
| Reeve Oliver | Touchtone Inferno | Mix |
| Relient K | Mmhmm | Mix |
| REO Speedwagon | The Earth, a Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken | Co-producer, Engineer, Mix |
| Rev Theory | Light It Up | Mix |
| Rick Astley | Body & Soul | Mix |
| Riddlin' Kids | Hurry Up and Wait | Mix |
| Riddlin' Kids | Stop the World | Mix |
| Robbie Nevil | A Place Like This | Producer |
| The Rolling Stones | Bridges to Babylon | Mix |
| The Rolling Stones | GRRR! | Mix |
| Rubyhorse | Rise | Mix |
| Rusted Root | Remember | Mix |
| Ryan Star | ' | Mix |
| Santana | Supernatural | Engineer, Mix |
| Sarah Brightman | Fly | Mix |
| Sarah Brightman | Harem | Mix |
| Sarah McLachlan | Mirrorball | Mix |
| Scott Matthews | Elsewhere | Mix |
| Semisonic | All About Chemistry | Mix |
| Seven and the Sun | Back to the Innocence | Mix |
| Shannon Curfman | Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions | Mix |
| Shawn Mullins | Soul's Core | Mix |
| Shinedown | Us and Them | Mix |
| Simple Minds | Good News from the Next World | Mix |
| Single File | Common Struggles | Mix |
| SingleTrackMind | No Reason | Mix |
| SingleTrackMind | Mix | |
| Sixpence None the Richer | Sixpence None the Richer | Mix |
| Sixpence None the Richer | Divine Discontent | Mix |
| Skye Sweetnam | Noise from the Basement | Mix |
| Sleeping with Sirens | Madness | Mix |
| Sly Fox | Let's Go All the Way | Engineer |
| Something Corporate | Leaving Through the Window | Mix |
| Something Corporate | Songs for Silent Movies | Mix |
| Sound the Alarm | Stay Inside | Mix |
| Spacehog | The Hogyssey | Mix |
| Spandau Ballet | Heart Like a Sky | Mix |
| Spymob | Sitting Around Keeping Score | Mix |
| Stabbing Westward | Stabbing Westward | Mix |
| Star 69 | Eating February | Mix |
| Starship | Love Among the Cannibals | Co-producer, Engineer, Mix |
| Stefy | The Orange Album | Mix |
| Steve Winwood | Back in the High Life | Engineer, Mix |
| Steve Winwood | Roll with It | Co-producer, Engineer, Mix |
| Steve Winwood | Refugees of the Heart | Co-producer, Engineer, Mix |
| Stroke 9 | Nasty Little Thoughts | Mix |
| Stroke 9 | Rip It Off | Mix |
| Sugarbomb | Bully | Mix |
| Sugarcult | Lights Out | Mix |
| Sugarcult | Palm Trees and Power Lines | Mix |
| The Suicide Machines | The Suicide Machines | Mix |
| Sum 41 | All Killer No Filler | Mix |
| Sum 41 | Does This Look Infected? | Mix |
| Sum 41 | Chuck | Mix |
| Sum 41 | Go Chuck Yourself | Mix |
| Sum 41 | Screaming Bloody Murder | Mix |
| Sum 41 | 13 Voices | Mix |
| Supertramp | Free as a Bird | Co-producer, Mix |
| Swirl 360 | Ask Anybody | Mix |
| Switchfoot | The Beautiful Letdown | Mix |
| Switchfoot | Oh! Gravity. | Mix |
| The System | Pleasure Seekers | Engineer, Mix |
| Taka Boom | Middle of the Night | Engineer, Mix |
| Taking Back Sunday | New Again | Mix |
| theSTART | Shakedown! | Mix |
| Third Eye Blind | Blue | Mix |
| Third Eye Blind | Out of the Vein | Mix |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars | A Beautiful Lie | Mix |
| Tinted Windows | Tinted Windows | Mix |
| TKA | Scars of Love | Engineer, Mix |
| Toad the Wet Sprocket | Coil | Mix |
| Toby Lightman | Little Things | Mix |
| Tracy Bonham | The Burdens of Being Upright | Mix |
| Trapt | Trapt | Mix |
| Trapt | Someone in Control | Mix |
| Treble Charger | Maybe It's Me | Mix |
| Treble Charger | Wide Awake Bored | Mix |
| Treble Charger | Detox | Mix |
| Tricky | Blowback | Mix |
| Tripping Daisy | I Am an Elastic Firecracker | Mix |
| The Tuesdays | The Tuesdays | Mix |
| Tyler Hilton | Tyler Hilton | Mix |
| Val Emmich | Slow Down Kid | Mix |
| Vanessa Carlton | Harmonium | Mix |
| Vertical Horizon | Everything You Want | Mix |
| The Verve Pipe | Villains | Mix |
| Victor DeLorenzo | Pancake Day | Mix |
| Voice of the Beehive | Sex & Misery | Mix |
| Vonda Shepard | The Radical Light | Mix |
| Vonda Shepard | Songs from Ally McBeal | Mix |
| The Wallflowers | Bringing Down the Horse | Mix |
| The Wallflowers | Breach | Mix |
| The Wallflowers | Red Letter Days | Mix |
| Warren Hill | Devotion | Engineer, Mix |
| We the Kings | We the Kings | Mix |
| We the Kings | Smile Kid | Mix |
| We the Kings | Sunshine State of Mind | Mix |
| Weezer | Weezer | Mix |
| Weezer | Maladroit | Mix |
| Weezer | Everything Will Be Alright in the End | Mix |
| Wendy & Lisa | Wendy and Lisa | Mix |
| Xavion | Burnin' Hot | Engineer |
| Yellowcard | Ocean Avenue | Mix |
| Yellowcard | Lights and Sounds | Mix |
| Yellowcard | Paper Walls'' | Mix |