Who is George Massenburg

==Background==

At 15, Massenburg worked part-time both in the recording studio and in an electronics laboratory. He attended Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and Johns Hopkins University, majoring in electrical engineering. As a sophomore, he left the University and never returned.

Massenburg authored a technical paper entitled "parametric equalization" which was presented at the 42nd convention of the Audio Engineering Society in 1972.George Massenburg, May 1972. Parametric Equalization. Retrieved on April 23, 2009. He is regularly published in professional journals and trade magazines worldwide. In 1973 and 1974, he was chief engineer of Studio Europa-Sonor in Paris, France. During those years, Massenburg also did freelance engineering and equipment design in Europe.

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, Linda Ronstadt, Earth, Wind & Fire 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 architectural design of many other studios, including Skywalker Sound and The Site in Marin County, California.George Massenburg Labs. Biography. Retrieved on April 23, 2009.

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 also an Adjunct Professor of Sound Recording at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, and the Berklee College Of Music in Boston.

He won the Academy of Country Music award for record of the year in 1988, the Mix Magazine TEC Awards for Producer and Engineer of the year in 1989,Mix Foundation 1989 TEC Awards. Retrieved on April 23, 2009. the TEC Awards Hall of Fame in 1990Mix Foundation TEC Awards Hall of Fame Inductees. Retrieved on April 23, 2009. and the Engineer of the year award in 1992.Mix Foundation 1992 TEC Awards. Retrieved on April 23, 2009. He won a Grammy in 1996, and one for Technical Achievement in 1998. In 2005, Massenburg was inducted into the TECnology Hall of Fame for his 1969 invention of the ITI ME-230 Parametric Equalizer.Mix Foundation TECnology Hall of Fame 2005. Retrieved on April 23, 2009.