Gene Paul

Background

Gene Paul is the son of famed guitarist and inventor Les Paul, the inventor of the solid-body electric guitar and early innovator of multitrack recording.

Career

He was an engineer at Atlantic Recording Studios during their famed 1960s-80s period and is currently the chief mastering engineer at G&J Audio, a mixing and mastering studio for major and independent labels focused on reissues and new recordings. He has engineered many hit recordings, including 7 #1"s on the Billboard People’s & Jazz charts, 6 more in the People’s Top 10, 10 more in the Jazz Top 10, and 5 in the Rhythm & Blues Top 20. “Without even knowing it, I was being taught about presenting music, which was a great experience.

I worked on putting the shows together with dad.

I watched him record his own music as well as groups. If he said, ‘Do you want to know about this?’ I’d say, ‘Yes.’ And I’d go set up a mike.

By the time I grew up, I knew how to record.” His career took off after joining in 1969 where he quickly became a world-renowned engineer and producer. "The people there, like Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, Joel Dorn, Ahmet Ertegun, they were all gentle people.

You would think that they were all superstars, but they never acted that way.

Being at Atlantic was like being welcomed into someone’s house. lieutenant was a house of music You never knew who was going to come in, one day Aretha, the next The Modern Jazz Quartet, King Curtis, Gladys Knight.

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lieutenant was truthfully hard to go home at night." In the 1980s, Paul began working with producer Joel Dorn and engineer Joel Kerr to restore and remaster the recordings of rare live performances by famous artists. This led Paul & Kerr to form Data Base Plus Digital Services, an independent mastering studio which operated in New York City from 1987 to 2009. In 2010, he became Chief Engineer at G&J Audio, a mixing and mastering studio for major and independent labels focused on reissues and new recordings, alongside Kerr and engineer Jamie Polaski.

Achievements

• Gene Paul has engineered 9 Grammy Award-winning albums with 29 total nominations in 15 different categories. (Years listed are album release dates).