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Rod Hui

Rod Hui
Instructor, Recorded Music

Office: 194 Mercer Street, 5th Floor

Courses

Studio Lab: Ensembles
Studio Lab: Collaborative Production Projects
Mixing Lab

Biography

A multi-platinum engineer, mixer and producer, Rod Hui began his engineering career in 1977. Since then he has mixed hits for Shannon, Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, George Benson, Mary J. Blige, Aretha Franklin, Whodini as well as recordings for Bonnie Tyler, Chaka Khan, Salt-N-Pepa and John Cale as well as many others. Rod has a knack for being involved with an artist at the beginning of completely new genres. He produced and mixed “Let The Music Play” for Shannon, “Its Like That” and “Sucker MC” for Run DMC. Rod also mixed “Hot Cool and Vicious” for the first female rap group Salt-N-Pepa as well as “It Takes Nation of Millions” and “Fear of a Black Planet” for Public Enemy. These continue to be important underpinnings for today’s popular music. Rod helped define a sound that is a strong foundation for much of today’s popular music. While building on a significant foundation of technique, experience and major label relations, Rod has embraced today’s recording and mixing technology and continues to raise the bar on record production. Rod was born is Hong Kong but has lived in the US since the 1960s. He currently resides in NYC. In addition to his musical interests, he is also quite a mixer of ingredients in a wok.