Gateway Mastering in Portland, Maine head the pack with an astonishing 25 client nominations for projects mastered by them with no fewer than 5 "physical" Grammy Award citations for Bob Ludwig in 4 separate categories. These include Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Historical Album and two nominations in the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Also featured in that category is Ted Jensen of Sterling Sound with his colleagues, Greg Calbi featuring in the Album of the Year list and Joe LaPorta in the Record of the Year.
One of Europe’s top mastering talents, Darcy Proper from the sensational revitalised Wisseloord Studios gets her mention in the Best Surround Sound Album listing as does Daniel Shores. The classical list is too long to itemise but features frequent nominees Morten Lindberg, Tim Martyn, Mark Donahue and Jesse Lewis. Other European recording teams are also in abundance; Classic Sound from London, Preban Iwan from Denmark, Othmar Eichinger from Austria, Enno Mäemets from Finland and Bert van der Wolf from the Netherlands. London’s James Mallinson recorded every one of his Producer of the Year nominated projects on Pyramix and competes with David Frost, another frequent user.
Commenting on these results, Merging’s Chris Hollebone made this observation: "It is notoriously difficult to discover every project that uses a particular piece of equipment, so this has to be regarded as a minimum at best. It is a list to be proud of by any standards and will mean that we will have winners and losers in some categories where we have multiple nominations. Sadly, they can’t all win!"
Full listing as far as is known:
- RECORD OF THE YEAR
- ALBUM OF THE YEAR
- BEST HISTORICAL ALBUM
- BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, NON-CLASSICAL x 2
- BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, CLASSICAL x 4
- BEST SURROUND SOUND ALBUM x 2
- BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM x 2
- BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
- BEST DANCE/ELECTRONICA ALBUM
- BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE
- BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE
- BEST COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
- BEST LATIN POP ALBUM x 2
- BEST AMERICANA ALBUM x 2
- BEST BLUES ALBUM
- BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR VISUAL MEDIA x 2
- BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT ACCOMPANYING VOCALIST(S) x 2
- PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL
- PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, CLASSICAL x 2
- BEST MUSIC VIDEO
- BEST MUSIC FILM
- BEST ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE
- BEST OPERA RECORDING x 2
- BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE
- BEST CHAMBER MUSIC/SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE x 2
- BEST CLASSICAL INSTRUMENTAL SOLO
- BEST CLASSICAL VOCAL SOLO x 2
- BEST CLASSICAL COMPENDIUM
- BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL COMPOSITION x 3
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