[MLA] possible future Technical Grammy nominations

[Robert Ludwig]

Greetings everyone!
I trust all is well with you, everything is fine and busy in Portland, Maine.
 
Every year people within The Recording Academy submit biographies of companies or individuals they think would be good to win a Technical Grammy Award.  There is a committee who decides if any of the submitted bios meet the current definition of who is eligible, and if they are, pass along the bio for voting by those that can vote for such things.

My reason for writing you all is you can see the UK/Europe/Asia countries are pretty well represented in the Company field, while the Individual winners are more weighted toward American engineers.  

I’m looking for any suggestions for either Companies or Individuals who might be over-looked.

Below is the current definition of the award, some past winners are a little dubious when held to this current definition.  Most important is the “innovation” part, we are looking for companies and people who literally invented something that had never been done before (EMT echo plate etc.) that made a big impact on the recording industry.  

This rules out companies who make elegant and even cheaper implementations of ideas to which others hold the patents.  People can’t win for a “body of work” so, for instance, Doug Sax won based on his pioneering of direct-to-disk recording, building his own microphones and building a mastering studio with truly audiophile signal path.

If, at any time, any of you think of some good companies and names I’d appreciate it.

Warmest regards,
Bob L.

The Company and Individual Technical GRAMMY: This Special Merit GRAMMY is awarded by vote of the Producers & Engineers Wing Advisory Council and Chapter Committees and ratification by The Recording Academy’s National Trustees to companies and individuals that have made outstanding contributions of technical excellence and innovation to the recording field. 

Previous Technical GRAMMY Winners: 
COMPANY 
Sony/Philips (1998) 
Georg Neumann GmbH (1999) 
AMS Neve plc (2000) 
Digidesign (2001) 
Apple Computer, Inc. (2002) 
Shure Incorporated (2003) 
Solid State Logic (2004) 
JBL Professional (2005) 
Western Electric/Bell Labs (2006) 
Yamaha Corporation (2007) 
Ampex Corporation (2008) 
Universal Audio (2009) 
AKG Acoustics GmbH (2010) 
WAVES Audio Ltd. (2011) 
Celemony Software GmbH (2012) 
Royer Labs (2013) 
Lexicon (2014) 
EMT (2016) 

INDIVIDUAL 
Dr. Thomas G. Stockham, Jr. (1994) 
Ray Dolby (1995) 
Rupert Neve (1997) 
George Massenburg (1998) 
Bill Putnam (2000) 
Les Paul (2001) 
Dr. Robert Moog (2002) 
Geoff Emerick (2003) 
Douglas Sax (2004) 
Phil Ramone (2005) 
Tom Dowd (2006) 
David M. Smith (2007) 
John Eargle (2008) 
Leo Fender (2009) 
Thomas Alva Edison (2010) 
Roger Linn (2011) 
Roger Nichols (2012) 
Ikutaro Kakehashi & Dave Smith (2013) 
Emile Berliner (2014) 
Dr. Raymond Kurzweil (2015) 
Dr. Harvey Fletcher (2016) 
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