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Red Tab 102.2 — Russell Elevado (Multi-Grammy Mix Engineer) — Analog Workflow & Grammy Track

GUARDRAIL: RED — FREEMAN STREET DAMAGES

Freeman Street opportunity-loss damages only. No G21 base damages, no enterprise multipliers.

Navigation: ← Return to Tab 102 (Grammy Opportunity)

LAYER 0: METADATA & SCOPE

Purpose. Evidence‑only nested page for Tab 102 — Grammy Opportunity (15% allocation) documenting Russell Elevado (three‑time Grammy Award‑winning mix engineer) and his analog‑workflow alignment with Freeman Street’s commissioning state. This page establishes operator‑level validation for the Grammy lane. No local calculations. All dollars and policy multipliers are centralized in Tab 001 and verified in Tab 002.

Platform identity. Freeman Street Studios is a creator‑economy production platform and private event venue; all canonical commissioning facts and absolute dates are mirrored from the Section Parent (Tab 000).

Binder placement. Category order and weight (Tab 102 = 15%) are controlled in Vol 06 — Binder Control & Section Index; this nested page inherits that posture (weight display only; no math).

Evidence‑only notice. Category and nested pages display weight only and route all mathematics to Tab 001 (framework) with Tab 002 (REPL) verification.

LAYER 1: CALCULATION REFERENCE

CALCULATION REFERENCE
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Parent Tab: Tab 102 (Grammy — 15% Allocation)
All Financial Calculations: Tab 001 (Framework) & Tab 002 (REPL)
This Page: Evidence repository only — no local calculations

Scenario Totals (Freeman-only): See Tab 001 — $25.0M / $100.0M / $200.0M
Verification: See Tab 002 — REPL Appendix (policy multipliers applied once)

(Allocation weight and policy multipliers are fixed in Tab 001 and verified in Tab 002. No dollars appear on this page.)

LAYER 2: EVIDENCE FRAMEWORK

A. Commitment & Role (Pre-Flood → Present)

Russell Elevado (three-time Grammy Award-winning mix engineer) committed to use Freeman Street as his NYC base-studio. This commitment is documentarily anchored in Russ's own contemporaneous written words to Christian Gray six years and eighteen days before the G21 flood, reinforced by a continuous nineteen-month engagement-escalation pattern documented across five contemporaneous email anchors (September 2013 → April 2015), and continued through the displacement period. This validator establishes Grammy-tier anchor-tenant demand for Freeman Street, parallel to the Krasno network-architect commitment documented at Tab 102.1.

Primary Documentary Anchor — Russ's First-Meeting Acknowledgment + Active Integration Coordination (September 25, 2013)

On September 25, 2013 at 1:21 PM — six years and eighteen days before the G21 flood — Russell Elevado replied to Eric Krasno's morning connector message to acknowledge the previous day's in-person studio meeting with Christian Gray and to immediately initiate active integration coordination, attaching a three-tab gear-list spreadsheet already organized for studio integration planning within twenty-four hours of first meeting. Russ's same-thread phrasing pins the September 24, 2013 meeting as his first encounter with Christian and frames active business-development integration as already underway:

"good meeting yesterday and feeling good vibes there. really nice meeting you christian. my gear list is attached. they're broken up into 3 tabs in the spreadsheet. let's figure out some next steps..."

The full September 25, 2013 reciprocal email pair is reproduced below to provide the surrounding institutional context (Krasno's connector framing; Russ's gear-list disclosure; "let's figure out some next steps" forward-action framing):

From: Eric Krasno ekraz@me.com Date: September 25, 2013 at 12:13 PM

Hey fellas,

Good meeting with you guys yesterday. Just wanted to connect everyone here and start sending around ideas and gear lists etc.

Look forward to hangin soon.

Kraz

From: Russ Elevado dragonmix@mac.com Date: September 25, 2013 at 1:21 PM Reply to: Krasno message above

hey guys!

good meeting yesterday and feeling good vibes there. really nice meeting you christian. my gear list is attached. they're broken up into 3 tabs in the spreadsheet. let's figure out some next steps...

best

russ

What this anchor establishes:

  1. Russ's anchor-tenant studio-use commitment is documentarily grounded six years and eighteen days pre-flood in his own written words ("good meeting yesterday and feeling good vibes there. really nice meeting you christian. my gear list is attached") to Christian Gray and Eric Krasno — not workshop language, not post-litigation reconstruction, not a friend's later recollection.
  2. First-meeting anchor explicit — "really nice meeting you christian" pins this as Elevado's first encounter with Christian; the Krasno-Christian relationship pre-exists September 24, 2013 in connector role.
  3. Active integration coordination already underway within 24 hours — Russ delivers a three-tab gear-list spreadsheet already organized for studio integration planning by the morning after first meeting. This is not first-contact courtesy email; this is professional integration coordination.
  4. Forward-action framing in own words — "let's figure out some next steps" documents Russ's explicit forward-business-development intent in the same reply.
  5. Krasno connector role documented in parallel — Krasno's "Just wanted to connect everyone here and start sending around ideas and gear lists" frames the September 24 in-person meeting as a deliberate connector event; cross-reference Tab 102.1 §A for the Krasno-side network-architect documentary basis.

Source document compilation: EX-ELEVADO-2013-PDF — Krasno-Elevado Reciprocal Email Pair (Sep 25, 2013) (compilation reference for EX-ELEVADO-2013-01; binder home Tab 102.2 §A; cross-referenced at Tab 102.1 §A for Krasno-side connector documentary basis). Also indexed in §G below.

Christian's First-Acceptance Anchor (September 27, 2013) — Three Days Post First Meeting

Three days after the September 24, 2013 in-person studio meeting and two days after Russ's reciprocal reply, Christian Gray documented his own first-person anchor-tenant acceptance in a same-thread reply to Krasno and Russ. The September 27, 2013 thread, preserved within the same Apple Mail capture as the September 25 reciprocal pair (EX-ELEVADO-2013-PDF), contains Christian's verbatim contemporaneous documentation:

From: Christian Gray christiangray3@yahoo.com To: Eric Krasno ekraz@me.com Cc: Russ Elevado dragonmix@mac.com Date: September 27, 2013 at 4:07 PM Subject: Re: Studio

Greetings bros,

It was great meeting you Russ! Thanks for coming out and checking the space and the vibe. The gear list looks amazing! I look forward to working with both of you guys and cultivating something that, I think, will be great. I agree, let's pass around ideas and figure out the next steps and have a hang soon. I look forward to hearing from you guys.

Chris

Krasno's same-day reply confirmed three-way professional/social integration:

From: Eric Krasno ekraz@me.com Date: September 27, 2013 at 4:20 PM

Yeah man, excited for what can happen here. I have both of you on the list for the beacon tonight. Let me know if you can make it

Sent from my iPhone

Christian's same-day confirmation:

From: Christian Gray christiangray3@yahoo.com Date: September 27, 2013 at 5:26 PM

I'm in for the show. Thanks Kraz. Hopefully see you there Russ.

What this companion anchor establishes:

  1. Christian-side first-person anchor-tenant acceptance documented three days post first meeting — "I look forward to working with both of you guys and cultivating something that, I think, will be great" pairs Russ's September 25 forward-action framing with Christian's reciprocal forward-commitment framing within seventy-two hours of the in-person meeting.
  2. Site-visit confirmation in Christian's own words — "Thanks for coming out and checking the space and the vibe" documents that Russ's September 24, 2013 visit was a studio-site walk-through (not a generic meeting), confirming Russ's first-hand inspection of the facility space.
  3. Gear-list receipt acknowledged — "The gear list looks amazing!" pairs with Russ's September 25 attachment delivery; documents Christian-side review of the three-tab integration spreadsheet within forty-eight hours of receipt.
  4. Beacon Theatre Soulive show three-way social engagement same evening — Krasno's September 27 4:20 PM message places both Christian and Russ on the guest list for the Soulive Beacon Theatre show that night; Christian's 5:26 PM acceptance ("Hopefully see you there Russ") documents continued three-way professional/social integration cadence beyond the studio context, three days post first meeting.

Engagement-Escalation Pattern — Pre-Flood Continuity (September 2013 → April 2015)

Across nineteen months of continuous documentary record, Russ's commitment to Freeman Street deepens through five contemporaneous email anchors. Each stage marks a distinct progression from initial interest through commitment-confirmation, on-site gear storage, financial co-investment, and explicit booking intent:

  1. September 24-27, 2013 (first meeting → reciprocal pair → Christian's first-acceptance documentation) — Russ's first encounter with Christian; immediate gear-list disclosure; active integration coordination begins within twenty-four hours; Christian's three-day first-acceptance reply ("I look forward to working with both of you guys and cultivating something that, I think, will be great") and three-way Beacon Theatre Soulive show social engagement complete the first-week documentary record (see §A Christian's First-Acceptance Anchor above).
  2. November 11, 2013 (per November 13, 2013 thread) — Russ check-in: "making sure you still into the idea of me sharing the space." Russ proactively confirms anchor-tenant interest approximately six weeks after first meeting; documents sustained commitment and Christian-side decisional control.
  3. May 18, 2014 — Russ requests on-site gear storage and discloses comprehensive professional gear inventory (API 2500, two Distressors, Bricasti M7, Burl Mothership, Mytek 8X192, Studer 800 from Clinton, CLASP planned, Shadow Hills in discussion); Bevin Robinson actively designing rack and credenza layouts. Physical commitment — Russ requests that his professional gear be stored on-site, transitioning from intent to material co-location of professional assets.
  4. September 10, 2014 — Russ proposes $2,000 Studer 800 head stack purchase plus 16-track conversion discussion ($8,000); recalls "at our last meeting" (in-person meet cadence confirmed); Russ's Germany tape-machine experience disclosed. Financial co-investment offer — Russ proposes acquiring specific gear for the studio buildout, transitioning from co-locating existing gear to acquiring new gear specifically for the facility.
  5. April 19-27, 2015 Re: Studio sub-thread — Four documentary anchors across nine-day exchange: Russ April 19 "I'd rather start booking sessions there than booking other studios" (active booking intent); Christian April 23 "I love the D'Angelo record! Well done!" (Grammy-tier acknowledgment) plus studio-timeline projection and open invitation; Russ April 27 "Yes I'd like to stop by soon. I'll text you next week" (sustained engagement); Christian April 27 "Let me know when you want to roll though and we'll make a plan" (mutual follow-through). Active booking intent → sustained mutual engagement — the deepest pre-flood expression of anchor-tenant commitment recovered to date, with both parties documented as actively maintaining the validator relationship across the full sub-thread (see §D Apr 19-27 thread below).

Continuity-of-engagement infill across the nineteen-month window includes additional substantive threads (October 1, October 15, October 31, November 23, 2013; January 23 and January 28, 2014; March 5, 2014; August 1, 2014) — every quarter across the arc has at least one preserved touchpoint, establishing not a single moment of intent but a sustained documentary record of deepening commitment.

Post-Flood Continuity of Intent

Russ's pre-flood anchor-tenant commitment continued through the displacement period. The September 2024 Dolby Atmos room/speaker design approval (Advanced Music & Post Production) and the September 2025 UMG outreach regarding current studio availability (see §D below) document that the validator opportunity remained live across the displacement window. The pre-flood documentary record establishes original anchor-tenant commitment; the post-flood validation events establish continuity of opportunity despite displacement.

B. Analog Workflow Alignment (control‑room & signal chain)

  • Monitoring & room: George Augspurger mains installed in control room wall system; commissioning acoustics designed for critical translation and reliability in mix review.
  • Console & outboard path: 48‑channel API Legacy Plus installed, being customized for outboard I/O and tape‑bus workflows typical of Elevado’s methods.
  • Tape domain: Studer A800 24‑track aligned for analog tracking/print‑back options consistent with award‑caliber signal chains.
  • Infrastructure: All audio/video/data cabling terminated/tested, providing stable analog‑to‑digital routing for hybrid print and archival.

C. October 2019 Commissioning Snapshot (canonical)

  • George Augspurger mains — installed in control room wall system
  • 48‑ch API Legacy Plus — installed, being customized
  • Studer A800 24‑track — aligned
  • All A/V/data cabling — terminated/tested
  • Museum‑grade acoustic treatment — complete
  • Vintage microphones — secure storage at Freeman
  • Pro Tools and Focal Twin6 Be 5.1 — at G21, later damaged (Blue)
  • Baldwin SF‑10 7.5′ grand piano — commercial storage
  • Facility weeks from full operation at time of flood (Oct 13, 2019).

D. Validation Events (Absolute Dates)

Pre-Flood Pattern (Engagement-Escalation Documentary Record):

  • September 24, 2013: Krasno-mediated in-person studio meeting (first encounter between Christian and Russ); anchored by reciprocal next-day email confirmations from both parties (see §A Primary Documentary Anchor and EX-ELEVADO-2013-01).
  • September 25, 2013: Russ delivers three-tab gear-list spreadsheet; active integration coordination begins within twenty-four hours of first meeting.
  • September 27, 2013: Christian's first-person anchor-tenant acceptance ("I look forward to working with both of you guys and cultivating something that, I think, will be great"); site-visit confirmation; gear-list receipt acknowledgment; Beacon Theatre Soulive show three-way social engagement same evening (see §A Christian's First-Acceptance Anchor and EX-ELEVADO-2013-01).
  • November 11, 2013: Russ commitment-confirmation check-in ("making sure you still into the idea of me sharing the space"); proactive sustained-interest confirmation approximately six weeks after first meeting.
  • May 18, 2014: Russ on-site gear storage request and comprehensive gear inventory disclosure; transition from intent to material co-location of professional assets.
  • September 10, 2014: Russ Studer 800 head stack purchase proposal ($2,000) and 16-track conversion discussion ($8,000); transition to acquiring gear specifically for the facility.
  • April 19-27, 2015: Russ April 19 explicit booking-intent statement + Christian April 23 D'Angelo Black Messiah Grammy acknowledgment + studio-timeline projection + April 27 sustained-engagement reciprocal commitment (see embedded thread below).

April 19-27, 2015 Re: Studio Thread — Grammy-Tier Validation Bridge

The April 27, 2015 Re: Studio thread embeds the April 19-23, 2015 sub-thread and contains four documentary anchors of central force across the nine-day exchange:

Russ's explicit anchor-tenant booking intent (April 19, 2015 at 5:11 PM):

"I'd rather start booking sessions there than booking other studios."

This is the deepest pre-flood expression of anchor-tenant commitment recovered to date. It documents Russ's explicit commercial commitment to use Freeman Street as primary booking venue in his own contemporaneous written words to Christian.

Christian's Grammy-tier acknowledgment + sustained engagement (April 23, 2015 at 1:05 PM):

"I love the D'Angelo record! Well done!"

This documents Christian's contemporaneous awareness of Russ's Grammy-tier mix engineer credit in regular-course pre-flood studio correspondence. D'Angelo's Black Messiah released December 15, 2014; the 57th Annual Grammy Awards (February 8, 2015) awarded Black Messiah the Best R&B Album Grammy. The April 23, 2015 acknowledgment lands approximately ten and a half weeks after the Grammy win, in active studio buildout correspondence — establishing that Russ's Grammy-tier credentials were professionally known to Christian and operative in the pre-flood studio-design correspondence, not back-constructed post-litigation. The same April 23 message includes Christian's studio-completion timeline projection ("commissioning the API in four to six weeks from now and opening doors in three months from now"), an open invitation ("You're welcome to stop by anytime and check out the spot and talk"), and a forward-commitment statement ("I look forward to working together in the future").

Russ's sustained-engagement reply (April 27, 2015 at 6:39 PM):

"Yes I'd like to stop by soon. I'll text you next week."

Russ confirms continued commitment to the facility four days after Christian's update, accepting the open invitation and proposing concrete near-term follow-through (text-message coordination, in-person visit). This defeats any "interest waned" objection — Russ's anchor-tenant commitment did not lapse after the April 19 booking-intent statement but was actively sustained through ongoing correspondence cadence.

Christian's coordinating-follow-through (April 27, 2015 at 7:05 PM):

"Let me know when you want to roll though and we'll make a plan."

Same-day reciprocal commitment from Christian establishes mutual ongoing engagement; both parties documented as actively maintaining the validator relationship as of the most recent pre-flood capture in this batch.

Source document compilation: EX-ELEVADO-2015-PDF — Russ-Christian Re: Studio (April 19-27, 2015) (compilation reference for EX-ELEVADO-2015-01; binder home Tab 102.2 §D). Also indexed in §G below.

Post-Flood Validation:

  • Sept 2024: Dolby Atmos room/speaker design approval (Advanced Music & Post Production) — capability anchor for modern release standards.
  • Sept 2025: UMG outreach regarding current availability — institutional signal that the opportunity remains live.

E. Peer & Corporate Bridges (how this page fits)

  • Grammy-peer connector (per September 25, 2013 reciprocal email pair): Eric Krasno (Grammy-winning artist/producer) — Krasno facilitated the initial Christian-Elevado introduction at the September 24, 2013 in-person studio meeting; his connector role is documented across additional pre-flood inflection points including the June 6, 2018 Krasno-Goldrich anchor-tenant declaration to Guitar Center Pro Audio (see Tab 102.1 §A Primary Documentary Anchor).
  • Grammy‑peer bridge: Kirk Yano (Sony) — peer validator connecting analog craft to label pipelines; his page (101.5) covers Sony corporate authority, while this page anchors analog‑workflow credibility in the Grammy lane.
  • UMG marketing bridge: Adam Lekach (Verve/UMG) — campaign/marketing coordination corroborating institutional readiness.
  • Industry practice context: Reference Memo — Studio Booking Practices (lead times/approval chains) — used for procurement context (no math).

F. Resource Diversion (verbatim)

While commitments were in place, the G21 flood (Oct 13, 2019) forced emergency residential use of Freeman Street and diverted resources:

  • Legal battles re: G21 habitability – 100+ hours
  • Environmental inspector coordination – 50+ hours
  • Contractor remediation assessments – 75+ hours
  • Alternative housing search (toxic unit offered) – 40+ hours
  • Health management from mold exposure – 30+ hours
  • Insurance claim administration – 60+ hours

Total diverted from business development: 355+ hours (≈ 9+ weeks FTE)

(Diversion narrative anchored in Section Parent; applied consistently across Red.)

G. Artifacts Index

Primary documentary anchors (pre-flood engagement-escalation pattern):

  • EX-ELEVADO-2013-01 — Russ's September 25, 2013 first-meeting acknowledgment + active integration coordination + Christian's September 27, 2013 first-acceptance documentation + Beacon Theatre Soulive show three-way social engagement (primary documentary anchor; six years and eighteen days pre-flood; preserved via Christian's October 31, 2013 contemporaneous forward to Bevin Robinson; see §A above). View PDF →
  • EX-ELEVADO-2015-01 — Russ's April 19, 2015 explicit anchor-tenant booking intent + Christian's April 23, 2015 D'Angelo Black Messiah Grammy-tier acknowledgment + April 27, 2015 sustained-engagement reciprocal commitment (Grammy-tier validation bridge across nine-day exchange; see §D above). View PDF →
  • September 24, 2013 in-person studio meeting — anchored by reciprocal next-day email confirmations from both parties (Krasno + Elevado); first-meeting anchor (cross-reference Tab 102.1 §A for Krasno-side parallel record).

Supplementary engagement-escalation anchors (Apple Mail recovery sweep; native EML capture parallel workstream):

  • EX-ELEVADO-2013-02 — Oct 1, 2013 Re: Studio (continuity infill; eighth-day follow-up correspondence)
  • EX-ELEVADO-2013-03 — Oct 15, 2013 Re: Studio (continuity infill; Christian's dual-building vision letter)
  • EX-ELEVADO-2013-04 — Nov 11-13, 2013 Re: Studio (escalation stage 2 — commitment-confirmation check-in)
  • EX-ELEVADO-2013-05 — Nov 23, 2013 Re: Studio (continuity infill; API console procurement context)
  • EX-ELEVADO-2014-01 — Jan 5-28, 2014 Re: studio updates chain (continuity infill; Bevin Chung King prior credential)
  • EX-ELEVADO-2014-02 — Feb 26 → Mar 5, 2014 Re: wassup (continuity infill; April 21 target opening reference)
  • EX-ELEVADO-2014-03 — May 18, 2014 Re: Russ gear storage (escalation stage 3 — physical commitment)
  • EX-ELEVADO-2014-04 — Jul 26 → Aug 2, 2014 Re: Meet up chain (continuity infill; in-person meet cadence)
  • EX-ELEVADO-2014-05 — Sep 7-10, 2014 Re: Studer 800 head stack (escalation stage 4 — financial co-investment)

Reserved validator artifacts (affidavit-capture phase per Layer 5):

  • EX-ELEVADO-AFF-01 — Declaration (Elevado) re: analog workflow & control-room geometry fit; original anchor-tenant commitment + commitment-continuity through displacement period
  • EX-ELEVADO-02 — Signal-chain notes / patchbay maps (headers + metadata)
  • EX-ELEVADO-03 — Session exemplars / analog-print practices (publicly documented methods)

Cross-refs: Tab 102 (parent); Tab 102.1 (Krasno — connector role + September 25, 2013 reciprocal email pair documentary parallel); Tab 101.5 (Yano — Grammy-peer Sony-corporate bridge); Tab 101.4 (Lekach — UMG marketing coordination); EX-DOLBY-01 (Sept 2024) / EX-UMG-25 (Sept 2025).

LAYER 3: WITNESS COORDINATION

Primary witness — Russell Elevado (three-time Grammy Award-winning mix engineer).

Expected testimony: (i) analog workflow requirements and how the commissioning state satisfied them; (ii) reliance on monitoring geometry and tape/console path; (iii) alignment to Grammy‑tier production standards; (iv) confirmation that all damages math resides exclusively in Tab 001/002.

Corroborating witnesses (context only):

  • Kirk Yano (Sony) — Grammy‑peer validator bridging Grammy ↔ Major Label (see Tab 101.5).
  • Eric Krasno (Grammy-winning) — base-studio operator commitment + September 25, 2013 reciprocal-email connector role documenting his facilitation of the Christian-Elevado relationship (see Tab 102.1 §A Primary Documentary Anchor).
  • Adam Lekach (Verve/UMG) — marketing/operational coordination (see Tab 101.4).
  • Contemporary Mission Corp. v. Famous Music Corp., 557 F.2d 918 (2d Cir. 1977) - Substantial probability standard.
  • Schonfeld v. Hilliard, 218 F.3d 164 (2d Cir. 2000) - Lost profits from prevented business relationships.
  • Kenford Co. v. County of Erie, 67 N.Y.2d 257 (1986) - Reasonable certainty for consequential damages.

Application: Russell Elevado's anchor-tenant commitment, documentarily anchored in his own contemporaneous September 25, 2013 written acknowledgment of the September 24, 2013 first-meeting with Christian Gray and his immediate initiation of active integration coordination with a three-tab gear-list spreadsheet (EX-ELEVADO-2013-01), reinforced by a five-stage nineteen-month engagement-escalation pattern across contemporaneous email anchors (September 2013 → April 2015) culminating in Russ's explicit anchor-tenant booking intent in his own written words ("I'd rather start booking sessions there than booking other studios"; EX-ELEVADO-2015-01), and reinforced further by Christian's contemporaneous April 23, 2015 acknowledgment of Russ's Grammy-tier mix engineer credit (D'Angelo Black Messiah; Best R&B Album 2015), corroborated by the October 2019 commissioning status and subsequent Dolby/UMG validations, establishes substantial probability and reasonable certainty for the Grammy lane, with all calculations confined to Tab 001/002.

LAYER 5: IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP

  1. Affidavit & exhibits. Execute EX-ELEVADO-AFF-01; attach EX-ELEVADO-02/03 with chain-of-custody; cross-reference EX-DOLBY-01 and EX-UMG-25.
  2. Pin‑cite map. Link Elevado statements to canonical commissioning facts and 2024/2025 validations; no local math.
  3. Witness sequencing. Present 102.2 (Elevado) with 102.1 (Krasno) and 102.3 (Yano peer) to show operator‑level validation → peer bridge → institutional readiness; route all dollars to Tab 001/002.
  4. Documentary basis preservation. Native EML capture of EX-ELEVADO-2013-01 (September 25, 2013 pair) plus the eight supplementary engagement-escalation anchors (EX-ELEVADO-2013-02 through EX-ELEVADO-2014-05) per Task #126 batch-export and Tab 103.1 §5.1 custody standards (full headers, SHA-256 hashing, filename convention EX-ELEVADO-YYYY-NN_v1_YYYY-MM-DD.eml). Display-tier PDFs are sufficient for v2.2 deployment; native EML upgrades parallel-workstream.

END — Red Tab 102.2 — Russell Elevado (Multi-Grammy Mix Engineer) — Analog Workflow & Grammy Track v2.2.2