Boston, MA
TW Walsh
Engineering leader, mastering engineer, musician, writer.
I lead engineering teams and I still build the systems they run on. I have mastered well over a thousand records, played in a few bands, made seven albums of my own, written a book, and started an audio software company called Fruitless Research.
01 — Mastering
Twenty-five years of mastering for digital and vinyl. Well over a thousand records. Taking commissions.
- RIAA Platinum singleMystery of LoveSufjan Stevens
- RIAA Platinum singleS.O.B.Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
- RIAA Platinum singleCovetBasement
- RIAA Gold albumNathaniel Rateliff & The Night SweatsNathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Clients include Sufjan Stevens, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, The Shins, Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie), Cold War Kids, Damien Jurado, Kristin Hersh, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Pernice Brothers, Starflyer 59, J. Tillman (Father John Misty), Pedro the Lion / David Bazan, Basement.
02 — Music
Seven solo albums since 1999. Pedro the Lion, Lo Tom, Headphones, The Soft Drugs.
03 — Engineering
Director of Engineering at VitalSource. Distributed teams, production Rails, AI platforms.
Three distributed teams across five continents; a catalog-automation pipeline that replaced a manual onboarding process; Workbench, an org-wide AI engineering platform adopted by all twelve engineering teams.
Founder · 2026Fruitless ResearchA one-person audio software company. Mixing and mastering plugins, DSP to storefront, every readout measured from the audio. →04 — Writing
Coherence
A collection of meditations and poems. Buy on Amazon.