Springsteen, les Rolling Stones, les Who, Brian Adams, Simple Mind, les Pretenders ou Mc Cartney, joli tableau de chasse pour un gamin entré livreur dans un studio quinze ans plus tôt...

Issu d’une famille de musiciens des années 1930, Bruce se retrouve très tôt plongé dans le son, notamment celui des répétitions symphoniques où sa mère l’entraîne régulièrement dans sa ville natale de Minneapolis. L’empreinte laissée est profonde et quand son père lui offre, à dix ans, son premier magnétophone, en dix minutes sa décision est prise, il sera ingénieur du son.

Little Feat, Linda Ronstadt, les Neville Brothers, c’est lui. Mais il est aussi l’inventeur de l’égaliseur paramétrique et le concepteur du système d’automation de console le plus versatile. Vingt cinq ans de studio, producteur de 90 albums, ingénieur du son sur des dizaines d’autres, concepteur de matériel sophistiqué, à quarante ans (en 1991), George Massenburg est un monument du son américain.

What were the determinant factors.....? RN : Well, that goes back quite a way. I love listening to music. I think it was hereditary. You know, my grandfather was in the film and the music business. He was head photographer for Warner Brothers. And he was really into music and my parents (...)

He does Little Feat, Linda Ronstadt, the Neville Brothers. But he’s also the parametric eqaliser, automation system , transparent compressor’s créator. A life in studio, 90 albums productor, sound engineer on many others, George Massenburg is a monument of the American Sound.

How to be a Producer When You Start As A Classical Violonist !!! Responsabilities in the evolution of an artist.

Los Angeles, Sept 25, 1990, interviewed by Marc Salama, James Cote. Q1 : Please, tell us a little about your beginnings ? Q2 : And how was recording at that time ? Q3 : What kind of music would you record at that time ? Q4 : Were they going wild ? Q5 : What was your relationship with (...)

The first session I ever did was actually about three or four months after I started, I was working with an engineer whose specialty was doing commercials and it was a recording date session with him, it was a mixing session with a band called "Kool and the Gang" and he didn’t like to do records...