John Haeny was an American-born music producer, recording and mixing engineer, sound designer and academic.
He worked with a variety of artists across multiple genres including Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Jim Morrison, Tom Jones, Warren Zevon and Linda Ronstadt to Weather Report, John Coltrane, Freddie Hubbard and Duke Ellington.
Following high school Haeny attended the Brooks Institute of Photography, in Santa Barbara, California, where he graduated with a degree in portraiture.
[3] After his relocation to Los Angeles, Haeny was responsible for working on production for the single, "I'm a Believer" along with Jeff Barry.
The hit from the band The Monkees became a well-known track, which went Gold within two days of its release following over 1 million advance orders.
[5] The album featured the hit version of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now", for which Judy was to win the 1968 Grammy Award for the Best Folk Performance.
All three Collins albums recorded by Haeny were certified Gold by the RIAA for the number of sales they achieved.
[8] In 1968, Haeny was the ‘anonymous’ mixer for David Crosby's production of Joni Mitchell's first studio album, Song to a Seagull.
[9] Haeny was the major contributing sound engineer for the Judy Collins Greatest Hits album, Colors of the Day.
The album The Body and Soul was released by Tom Jones during the same year and was recorded and engineered by Haeny.
The release came seven years after lead singer Jim Morrison died and five years after the remaining members of the band The Doors broke up, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore reunited and recorded backing tracks for Morrison's poetry, which was originally recorded in 1969 and 1970 by Haeny.
Haeny was co-producing Jim Morrison's poetry album in the early 1970s before his sudden death at the age of 27.
The film soundtrack achieved Platinum in the US, which contained a number of tracks directly pulled from the album An American Prayer.
[1] From 1986 onwards, Haeny featured regularly in film and US Network television as an engineer and sound editor.
[27] His first major achievement came in 1987, when Haeny and his sound department were nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on Fresno.
[28] Over the next couple of decades, his credits included, Scent of a Woman, Twin Peaks, While You Were Sleeping, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Dallas and Beauty and the Beast, among others.
Here Haeny is also a beta tester for Waves Audio and also the co-developer of the Kramer Master Tape plugin.