Emily Eck is a female audio engineer with years of experience in recording, mixing, music production, audio post production, live sound, as well as studio and artist management. After graduating with a Masters of Fine Arts in Recording Arts and Technologies from Middle Tennessee State University, she moved back to her hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana where she currently works.

Her credits reflect the influence that the culturally diverse city has had on her life, which encompass genres such as Cajun, Mardi Gras Indian, Haitian, Brass Band, Electronic, and Indie Rock. Her studio work includes artists such as The Soul Rebels, 79rs Gang, Nicholas Payton, PJ Morton, Trombone Shorty, Lakou Mizik, RAM, GIVERS, Generationals, Sweet Crude, Langhorne Slim, and more. Her live sound work includes artists such as Kamasi Washington, Eagles of Death Metal, Warpaint, Melvins, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Peaches, Albert Hammond Jr. (of The Strokes), Ty Segall, and more. Her on-set work includes Take Me to the River: New Orleans, The Strand, The First, and more. Along her career, she has also shared the control room with some of her own childhood heroes such as Dr. John, Irma Thomas, The Neville Brothers, Jon Cleary, and Cheeky Blakk.

Emily received a GRAMMY acknowledgment in 2018 for her work on Lost Bayou Ramblers’ “Kalenda” for Best Regional Roots Music Album. She spent 2019-2022 as a full-time engineer and studio manager for artist Arcade Fire. She engineered their album “We”, which was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album in the 2023 GRAMMYs. During the process of making this album, Emily traveled around North America and Europe working with producers and artists including Radiohead’s Nigel Godrich, Peter Gabriel, Father John Misty, Beck, Joy Divison’s Stephen Morris, Geoff Barrow, Pulp’s Steve Mackey, and more. In 2023, she went on to engineer Richard Reed Parry’s original motion picture soundtrack for the feature film Eileen. That same year, she became a full-time Professor of Practice in Music Technology at Loyola University New Orleans and served on the Recording Academy’s Memphis Chapter Board through 2025.

Driven by her desire to help others, Emily’s career path has revolved around facilitating the artist’s process. A large part of this for her means maintaining a safe and inspiring environment that promotes creativity.