GML may refer to:

• Middle Low German (ISO 639-3 code), a language used around the North Sea and the Baltic Sea from 1100 to 1600
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• Gradient Multi-Layer nano-film
• Graphical Motion Language

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• Game Maker Language, the scripting language of Game Maker
• Generalized Markup Language, a set of macros that implement intent-based markup tags for SCRIPT/VS
• Generative Modelling Language, an extension of PostScript used for the concise description of complex 3D shapes
• Geography Markup Language, an XML file format for geographic data
• Graffiti Markup Language, a specifically formated XML file designed to be a common open structure for archiving gestural graffiti motion data into a text file
• Graph Modelling Language, a hierarchical ASCII-based file format for describing graphs

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George Massenburg Labs's booth on the AES Convention

George Y. Massenburg (born Baltimore, Maryland) is a recording engineer and inventor. Working principally in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Macon, Georgia, Massenburg is widely known for submitting a paper to the Audio Engineering Society in 1972 regarding the parametric equalizer.^[1]

Background[link]

At 15, Massenburg worked part-time both in the recording studio and in an electronics laboratory. He attended Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and Johns Hopkins University, majoring in electrical engineering. As a sophomore, he left the University and never returned.

Massenburg authored a technical paper entitled "parametric equalization" which was presented at the 42nd convention of the Audio Engineering Society in 1972.^[1] He is regularly published in professional journals and trade magazines worldwide. In 1973 and 1974, he was chief engineer of Studio Europa-Sonor in Paris, France. During those years, Massenburg also did freelance engineering and equipment design in Europe.

Massenburg participated (individually and collaboratively) in over two hundred record albums over the past thirty years. His work includes recordings of James Taylor, Billy Joel, Toto, Dixie Chicks, Journey, Madeleine Peyroux, Little Feat, Randy Newman, Lyle Lovett, Aaron Neville, Kenny Loggins, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Linda Ronstadt, Earth, Wind & Fire and many more. He has designed, built and managed several recording studios, notably ITI Studios in Hunt Valley, Maryland and The Complex in Los Angeles. In addition, he has contributed to the acoustical and architectural design of many other studios, including Skywalker Sound and The Site in Marin County, California.^[2]

Massenburg aims to make extended resolution and bandwidth an achievable goal of professional digital recordings and has worked to improve analog-digital-analog analysis and conversion methods. Along with GML, Inc., Massenburg is currently researching extended automated work-surfaces, high resolution graphical interfaces, automation data interchange standards and extensible network automation for audio production environments.

Massenburg is also an Adjunct Professor of Sound Recording at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, the Berklee College Of Music in Boston, and the University of Memphis in Memphis, TN.

Awards and honors[link]

He won the Academy of Country Music award for record of the year in 1988, the Mix Magazine TEC Awards for Producer and Engineer of the year in 1989,^[3] the TEC Awards Hall of Fame in 1990^[4] and the Engineer of the year award in 1992.^[5] He won a Grammy in 1996, and the Special Merit/Technical Grammy Award in 1998. In 2005, Massenburg was inducted into the TECnology Hall of Fame for his 1969 invention of the ITI ME-230 Parametric Equalizer.^[6]

GML[link]

In 1982, Massenburg founded GML, Inc., which produces equipment for specific recording applications.^[2] They have recently introduced the GML 2032 Mic Pre and Parametric EQ, which have been in development for twenty years, along with the GML Automation System, the High Resolution Topology Line-Level Mixing Console and the GML Microphone Pre-Amplifier. GML also consults and does independent design for several major audio electronics manufacturers.

Personal[link]

Massenburg married Carol "Cookie" Rankin in Mabou, Nova Scotia on July 27, 2001, when he was 54 and she 35.^[7] Rankin is one of the founding members of the Rankin Family, a Celtic folk/country band from Cape Breton who were very popular in Canada during the 1990s. Massenburg lives in Nashville, Tennessee and maintains a vacation home in Mabou. He has one son, Sam.

See also[link]

• Equalization
• Parametric equalization

References[link]

External links[link]

• George Massenburg official website
• George Massenburg - The Equalizer
• Face to Face with George Massenburg
• George Massenburg interview
• George Massenburg at Allmusic