<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Greetings everyone!<div class="">I trust all is well with you, everything is fine and busy in Portland, Maine.</div><div class=""> <br class=""><div class="">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 <u class="">current</u> definition of who is eligible, and if they are, pass along the bio for voting by those that can vote for such things.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m looking for any suggestions for either Companies or Individuals who might be over-looked.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If, at any time, any of you think of some good companies and names I’d appreciate it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Warmest regards,</div><div class="">Bob L.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><b class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11.5px;" class="">The Company and </span><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Individual</span><span style="font-size: 11.5px;" class=""> Technical GRAMMY</span></font></b><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11.5px;" class="">: 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 </span></font><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5px;" class="">companies and individuals </i><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11.5px;" class="">that have made </span></font><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5px;" class="">outstanding contributions </b><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11.5px;" class="">of </span></font><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5px;" class="">technical excellence </b><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11.5px;" class="">and </span></font><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5px;" class=""><u class=""><font color="#9929bd" class="">innovation</font></u> </b><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11.5px;" class="">to the </span></font><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5px;" class="">recording field</b><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11.5px;" class="">. </span></font></div></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11.5px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class="">Previous Technical GRAMMY Winners: </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class="">COMPANY </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Sony/Philips (1998) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Georg Neumann GmbH (1999) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">AMS Neve plc (2000) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Digidesign (2001) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Apple Computer, Inc. (2002) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Shure Incorporated (2003) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Solid State Logic (2004) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">JBL Professional (2005) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Western Electric/Bell Labs (2006) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Yamaha Corporation (2007) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Ampex Corporation (2008) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Universal Audio (2009) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">AKG Acoustics GmbH (2010) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">WAVES Audio Ltd. (2011) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Celemony Software GmbH (2012) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Royer Labs (2013) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Lexicon (2014) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">EMT (2016) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class="">INDIVIDUAL </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Dr. Thomas G. Stockham, Jr. (1994) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Ray Dolby (1995) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Rupert Neve (1997) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">George Massenburg (1998) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Bill Putnam (2000) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Les Paul (2001) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Dr. Robert Moog (2002) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Geoff Emerick (2003) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Douglas Sax (2004) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Phil Ramone (2005) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Tom Dowd (2006) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">David M. Smith (2007) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">John Eargle (2008) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Leo Fender (2009) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Thomas Alva Edison (2010) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Roger Linn (2011) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Roger Nichols (2012) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Ikutaro Kakehashi & Dave Smith (2013) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Emile Berliner (2014) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Dr. Raymond Kurzweil (2015) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Dr. Harvey Fletcher (2016) </div></div></div></body></html>