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George Y. Massenburg (b. Baltimore, Maryland, United States) is an award-winning recording engineer and inventor. Working principally in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Macon, Georgia, Massenburg is widely known for his 1972 paper on the parametric equalizer. Nickname: Monument City, Charm City, Mob Town[1][2] Motto: The Greatest City in America[3], Get in on it. ... Audio engineering is the branch of engineering dealing with the production of sound through mechanical means. ... jesse is gay ... For information about computer bandwidth management, see Equalization (computing). ...


Background

At 15, Massenburg worked part-time both in the recording studio and in an electronics laboratory. He attended Johns Hopkins University, majoring in electrical engineering. As a sophomore, he left the University and never returned. The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ...


He authored a preprint entitled "parametric equalization" which was presented at the 42 convention of the Audio Engineering Society in 1972 (this preprint is not available from the AES and may only be found at Massenburg's website). He is regularly published in professional journals and trade magazines worldwide. In 1973 and 1974, he was chief engineer of Europa Sonar Studios in Paris, France. During those years, Massenburg also did freelance engineering and equipment design in Europe. Established in 1948, the Audio Engineering Society (AES) draws its membership from amongst engineers, scientists, manufacturers and other organisations and individuals with an interest or involvement in the professional audio industry. ...


Massenburg participated (individually and collaboratively) in over two hundred record albums over the past thirty years. His work includes recordings of James Taylor, Billy Joel, Dixie Chicks, Journey, Madeleine Peyroux, Little Feat, Randy Newman, Lyle Lovett, Aaron Neville, Kenny Loggins, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Linda Ronstadt, and many more. He has designed, built and managed several recording studios, notably ITI Studios in Hunt Valley, Maryland and The Complex in Los Angeles. In addition, he has contributed to the acoustical and architechtural design of many other studios, including Skywalker Sound and The Site in Marin County, California. James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Belmont, Massachusetts. ... William Martin Billy Joel (born May 9, 1949, in Bronx, New York, USA) is an American singer, pianist, and songwriter. ... The Dixie Chicks are an American female country music trio comprising Emily Robison, Martie Maguire and Natalie Maines. ... Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco, California. ... Madeleine Peyroux (b. ... The musical band Little Feat has mixed blues, R&B, country, and rock and roll styles since its 1969 genesis in Los Angeles. ... Randall Stuart Randy Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American songwriter, arranger, singer and pianist who is notable for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for his many film scores. ... Lyle Lovett, from the cover of 1996s The Road to Ensenada Lyle Lovett (born in Klein, Texas on November 1, 1957) is an American singer-songwriter. ... Aaron Neville Aaron Neville (born January 24, 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American soul and R&B singer. ... Kenny Loggins on the cover of his collection Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: The Greatest Hits of Kenny Loggins Kenny Loggins (born Kenneth Clark Loggins on January 7, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter. ... Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958 in Princeton, New Jersey) is a five-time Grammy Award-winning country/folk singer-songwriter and guitarist, with a diverse musical style that is sometimes said to be unclassifiable. ... Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is a Grammy-winning, multi-platinum American singer most closely associated with the folk rock and country rock genres prevalent in the 1970s. ...


Massenburg aims to make extended resolution and bandwidth an achievable goal of professional digital recordings, and has worked to improve analog-digital-analog analysis and conversion methods. Along with GML, Inc., Massenburg is currently researching extended automated work-surfaces, high resolution graphical interfaces, automation data interchange standards and extensible network automation for audio production environments.


Massenburg is currently an Adjunct Professor of Recording Arts and Sciences at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, the Berklee College Of Music in Boston, and MTSU in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. McGill University is a publicly funded, non-denominational, co-educational research university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... The University of California, Los Angeles, generally known as UCLA, is a public university whose main campus is located in the affluent Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. ... The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly as Southern Cal[1]) is located in the University Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, USA. USC is one of the worlds leading private research universities, and was founded in 1880, making it California... Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts with many prominent faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting artists. ...


He won the Academy of Country Music award for record of the year in 1988, the Mix Magazine TEC Award for Producer and Engineer of the year in 1989, and the Engineer of the year award in '91 and '92. He won a Grammy in 1996, and one for Technical Achievement in 1998. The Academy of Country Music (ACM) was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music...


GML

In 1982, Massenburg founded GML, Inc., which produces equipment for specific recording applications. They have recently introduced the GML 2032 Mic Pre and Parametric EQ, which have been in development for twenty years, along with the GML Automation System, the High Resolution Topology Line-Level Mixing Console and the GML Microphone Pre-Amplifier. GML also consults and does independent design for several major audio electronics manufacturers.


He won the Academy of Country Music award for record of the year in 1988, the Mix Magazine TEC Award for Producer and Engineer of the year in 1989, and the Engineer of the year award in '91 and '92. He won a Grammy in 1996, and one for Technical Achievement in 1998. The Academy of Country Music (ACM) was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music...


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