Craig Bauer

Craig Bauer
Craig Bauer, Hinge Studios
Background information
Occupation(s)	Mix engineer, producer, songwriter
Website	www.craigbauer.com

Craig Bauer is an American music mixing engineer and record producer. He has been nominated for two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year for his work on Kanye West’s multiplatinum album Late Registration and follow-up album Graduation. Bauer won a Grammy Award in 2008 for mixing The Clark Sisters’ 2007 album, Live: One Last Time.

Craig Bauer was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked through the ranks of the studios there before migrating to Chicago, Illinois in the early 90’s to open his own recording studio. Beyond the technical aspects of being a mixing engineer and a businessman, Bauer is also musician. He studied Classical Piano and Music Education at Ohio State University and is also a skilled guitar player.

In 1993, Bauer opened Hinge Studios at 320 W. Ohio Street in Chicago, Illinois. Many of his first clients were jazz artists, including, Dave Koz, Brian Culbertson, Steve Cole and Peter White.

Bauer, in 1997, began working with a young rap group dubbed “The Go Getters”, which included a very young Kanye West. Several of the demos that Kanye West recorded with Craig Bauer at Hinge Studios were built into tracks on the album College Dropout. Bauer later mixed “Heard ‘Em Say”, “Roses”, “Bring Me Down”, “Addiction” and “Late” on Kanye West’s Late Registration Album which was nominated for the Grammy Award Album of the Year at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards.