George Massenburg has participated (individually and collaboratively) in over four hundred records over the past 45 years. His studio work has gained him international recognition and multiple GRAMMY® Awards as well as the Technical GRAMMY in 1998. In 1982, he founded George Massenburg Labs (GML), a pioneering audio electronics company that has released an extensive range of innovative recording technologies, all based on his original designs. Awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music by Boston’s esteemed Berklee College of Music, George also received the Gold Medal from the Audio Engineering Society in 2008. In 2013 he was awarded a patent in the U.S. (as well as other countries) for a variable exponent averaging detector and dynamic range controller. He is also a member of the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress and an advisor to the Committee for Library Information Resources. George serves as the Chief Technical Officer of META (the Music Engineering Technical Alliance), a strategic union of music producers and engineers dedicated to the highest standards of audio and delivery of music. Currently, George is an Associate Professor of Sound Recording at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Berklee College Of Music in Boston and Valencia, Spain, and the University of Memphis in Memphis, TN. He and his wife Cookie Rankin live in Montreal, Quebec.