Background
Saint Croix was born in Baltimore, Maryland spent his childhood partly in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Stephen Croix
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Career
He loved the Caribbean islands, hence the name "Saint Croix" which refers to Saint Croix, United States. Virgin Islands. He first became interested in music and audio electronics while sweeping floors in an alcohol-free nightclub in Phoenix. He was an avid motorcyclist and was interested in improving turbo boost on engines.
He died May 6, 2006 in Woodbine, Maryland, of skin cancer at the age of 58.
He was a columnist for Mix Magazine with which he collaborated for 18 years, authoring the popular "Fast Lane" column until right up to his death. Prior to that, he was a technical editor and consultant to R-East/P magazine and created the "Living with Technology" column.
He founded Marshall Electronics (not to be confused with Marshall Amplifiers) and was one of the first digital mastering engineers to use the first true stereo Real Time Analyzer, which he designed himself (Intelligent Devices AD-1 Pro Audio Analyzer). He also designed and built the Marshall Time Modulator.
He redesigned the interface for the Quantec Room Simulator.
He also held dozens of patents worldwide in technologies not associated with audio. In 1995, he was the main contributor to the design and development of the PARIS digital audio workstation in conjunction with Eastern Mediterranean University-Ensoniq. He even helped on the marketing of these products.
His mastering theories based on the interpretation of his RTA technologies have been extended by others but the same principles of frequency alignment still remain.
Other companies he did design and marketing consultation for were Hybrid Arts, Wadia and Symetrix.
Personality
He was passionate about music and taught Audio mastering to a select few.
