Chris Gehringer

Chris Gehringer (born May 27, 1962) is an American mastering engineer at Sterling Sound in New Jersey.

Gehringer is known for having mastered recordings by popular artists such as AJR, Dua Lipa, Drake, Ed Sheeran, Gwen Stefani, Harry Styles, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Selena Gomez, Twenty One Pilots, Lana Del Rey, Lil Nas X, Lizzo, and many others. Works engineered by Gehringer span many genres such as pop, R&B, hip hop, and dance.

Early life
Gehringer was born in Teaneck, New Jersey and raised in Bergen County. After graduating from Pascack Hills High School in Montvale, New Jersey, he attended the Institute of Audio Research.

Career
Gehringer’s first job in the music industry was at Greene Street Recording. From there, he went on to work as a cutting assistant at Trutone Records.

In 1985, Gehringer joined Tom Coyne and Herbie Powers at Frankford-Wayne Mastering and mastered primarily dance and R&B records throughout the 1980s.

In 1988, he moved to the Hit Factory, where he worked for twelve years. During his time there, he witnessed the golden age of hip hop, mastering landmark releases by artists such as Naughty By Nature, Mobb Deep, Wu Tang Clan, and PM Dawn.

In 1999, Gehringer joined Sterling Sound as a senior mastering engineer.

Gehringer received his first Grammy Awards nominations in 2012 in the category of Album of the Year. He was nominated both for his work on Rihanna’s Loud and for his work on Lady Gaga’s Born This Way. Since then, he has been nominated for 20 Grammys and 7 Latin Grammys. In 2022, he won Latin Grammy Awards for Best Engineered Album and Album of the Year for his mastering work on Rosalía's album Motomami.

In 2016, he became an official partner of Sterling Sound.

Awards and nominations
Grammy Awards
 * rowspan="2"| 2012
 * Loud
 * rowspan="3"| Album of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Born This Way
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="3"|2013
 * Some Nights
 * Nominated
 * "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)"
 * rowspan="5"| Record of the Year
 * Nominated
 * "We Are Young"
 * Nominated
 * 2014
 * "Blurred Lines"
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="2"|2016
 * "Work"
 * Nominated
 * "Stressed Out"
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="2"| 2019
 * Dirty Computer
 * Album of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Head Over Heels
 * Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="3"| 2020
 * "Truth Hurts"
 * Record of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Norman Fucking Rockwell!
 * rowspan="3"| Album of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Cuz I Love You
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="2"| 2021
 * Future Nostalgia
 * Nominated
 * "Don't Start Now"
 * rowspan="2"| Record of the Year
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="2"| 2022
 * "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)"
 * Nominated
 * Montero
 * rowspan="2"|Album of the Year
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="3"| 2024
 * World Music Radio
 * Nominated
 * "Worship"
 * Record of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
 * Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="2"| 2022
 * "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)"
 * Nominated
 * Montero
 * rowspan="2"|Album of the Year
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="3"| 2024
 * World Music Radio
 * Nominated
 * "Worship"
 * Record of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
 * Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
 * Nominated
 * Nominated
 * Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
 * Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
 * Nominated
 * Nominated

Latin Grammy Awards


 * 2008
 * Eternamiente
 * Best Rock Album by a Duo or Group with Vocal
 * 2012
 * Peligro
 * Album of the Year
 * Nominated
 * 2017
 * Felices los 4
 * rowspan="2"|Record of the Year
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="3"|2022
 * La Fama
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="2"|Motomami
 * Best Engineered Album
 * Album of the Year
 * 2023
 * Despechá
 * Record of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Best Engineered Album
 * Album of the Year
 * 2023
 * Despechá
 * Record of the Year
 * Nominated
 * 2023
 * Despechá
 * Record of the Year
 * Nominated

TEC Awards


 * 2011
 * "F***k You"
 * Record Production/Single
 * Nominated
 * Nominated

Notable works
As adapted from the Career Highlights section of Gehringer's official web page.


 * Naughty by Nature, by Naughty by Nature, 1991
 * Boomerang: Original Soundtrack Album, by various artists, 1992
 * Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), by Wu-Tang Clan, 1993
 * "Thug Love", by 50 Cent, 1999
 * Hot Shot, by Shaggy, 2000
 * Stillmatic, by Nas, 2001
 * We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. by Jason Mraz, 2008
 * Thank Me Later, by Drake, 2010
 * Loud, by Rihanna, 2010
 * Born This Way, by Lady Gaga, 2011
 * Unapologetic, by Rihanna, 2012
 * Blurryface, by Twenty One Pilots, 2015
 * "Be Careful", by Cardi B, 2016
 * Anti, by Rihanna, 2016
 * Harry Styles, by Harry Styles, 2017
 * Masseduction, by St. Vincent, 2017
 * Good Thing, by Leon Bridges, 2018
 * Head over Heels, by Chromeo, 2018
 * Dirty Computer, by Janelle Monáe, 2018
 * Cuz I Love You, by Lizzo, 2018
 * Trench by Twenty One Pilots, 2018
 * Norman Fucking Rockwell!, by Lana Del Rey, 2019
 * Future Nostalgia, by Dua Lipa, 2019
 * Glow On, by Turnstile, 2020
 * "Heat Waves", by Glass Animals, 2021
 * Scaled and Icy by Twenty One Pilots, 2021
 * 5SOS5, by 5 Seconds of Summer, 2022
 * "I Ain't Worried", by OneRepublic, 2022
 * Dance Fever, by Florence and the Machine, 2022
 * Motomami, by Rosalia, 2022
 * "Single Soon", by Selena Gomez, 2023
 * World Music Radio, by Jon Batiste, 2023
 * Snow Angel, by Reneé Rapp, 2023
 * So Much (for) Stardust, by Fall Out Boy, 2023
 * Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, by Caroline Polachek, 2023