Technical GRAMMY Award
This Special Merit Award is presented by vote of the Producers & Engineers Wing Advisory Council and Chapter Committees and ratification by the Recording Academy's National Trustees to individuals and/or companies/organizations/institutions who have made contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field.
Previous Technical GRAMMY Recipients
Dr. Thomas G. Stockham, Jr. (1994)
Ray Dolby (1995)
Rupert Neve (1997)
George Massenburg (1998)
Sony/Philips (1998)
Georg Neumann GmbH (1999)
AMS Neve plc (2000)
Bill Putnam (2000)
Digidesign (2001)
Les Paul (2001)
Apple Computer, Inc. (2002)
Dr. Robert Moog (2002)
Geoff Emerick (2003)
Shure Incorporated (2003)
Douglas Sax (2004)
Solid State Logic (2004)
JBL Professional (2005)
Phil Ramone (2005)
Tom Dowd (2006)
Western Electric/Bell Labs (2006)
David M. Smith (2007)
Yamaha Corporation (2007)
Ampex Corporation (2008)
John Eargle (2008)
Leo Fender (2009)
Universal Audio (2009)
AKG Acoustics Gmbh (2010)
Thomas Alva Edison (2010)
Roger Linn (2011)
WAVES Audio Ltd. (2011)
Celemony Software GmbH (2012)
Roger Nichols (2012)
Ikutaro Kakehashi & Dave Smith (2013)
Royer Labs (2013)
Emile Berliner (2014)
Lexicon (2014)
Dr. Raymond Kurzweil (2015)
EMT (2016)
Dr. Harvey Fletcher (2016)
Alan Dower Blumlein (2017)
Tony Agnello & Richard Factor (2018)
Saul Walker (2019)
George Augspurger (2020)
Daniel Weiss (2021)
Audio Engineering Society (AES) (2023)
Dr. Andy Hildebrand (2023)
Tom Kobayashi & Tom Scott (2024)