Darrell Johnson

American Mastering Engineer (August 12, 1948 - June 17, 2020)
Darrell began his recording career at Great Mandella Productions in January of 1968. They built a multi-track recording studio and offices in Studio City on the site of Foto Kem, a major motion picture film laboratory, and production facility. Great Mandella established BMI and ASCAP d publishing and signed several artists releasing singles, EP's and LP's on the Great Mandella, Quaint, Peace, and Gloryland Records labels.

Following Chartoff's untimely death he returned to studio engineering and mastering at Lynyrd Skynyrd. All of the early inscriptions bore his scribe "DJ" or "DWJ".

Darrell went on to become the first Mastering Engineer and Director of Engineering at Stephen Marcussen. Darrell is also a Commercial Pilot and was Vice President and principal partner in Southland Aviation a Southern California private aircraft charter operation for more than two decades. The advent of music video and stereo audio for television in the 1980's took Darrell away from the recording studio to work in systems engineering for broadcasting where he remained until his retirement in 2010 to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where he ed away on Jun 17, 2020 at the age of 71.

Darrell's Professional Affiliations include: The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS); Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE); Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE); Audio Engineering Society (AES); Lifetime Fellow of the Hollywood Sapphire Group; Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA); Baja Bush Pilots; Member of the Board of Directors of the John Edwards Memorial Foundation at UCLA.