[MLA] possible future Technical Grammy nominations

[Grimm | Eelco]

Dear Bob,

I came across your post from August again and gave it another thought. I would recommend the following individual, group and company:

1. Alan Blumlein. He invented everything that is or can be used in stereophony: 
- microphone setups: XY, MS, AB with shuffling, sphere microphone with shuffling, double AB with crossover.
- stereo cutting head for vinyl.
If Fletcher received the Technical Grammy, Blumlein deserves it too.

2. The ITU srg3 group who wrote the BS1770 standard. This standard is arguably the most important standard for audio in this decade and it has huge impact on all produced audio in the foreseeable future. The work of EBU PLOUD and ATSC would not have been possible without it.

3. Audio Ease. They did not invent convolution reverb of course, but they were the first to make it available to a large audience and thus they changed the way music and especially films are mixed in a fundamental way.

All the best,
Eelco


On 10 aug. 2016, at 16:19, Robert Ludwig <gatewaybob at mac.com> wrote:

> 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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