Technical Grammy Award

The Technical Grammy Award is a Special Merit Grammy Award presented to individuals or companies who have made contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field. The award was first presented in 1994 to Dr. Thomas G. Stockham Jr. Others who have received this award include Ray Dolby, Ikutaro Kakehashi, Rupert Neve, Les Paul, Phil Ramone, Dr. Robert Moog, Geoff Emerick, Tom Dowd, Bill Putnam, George Massenburg, Roger Linn, Leo Fender and Thomas Alva Edison. Companies honored include AKG, Apple Computer, Digidesign, JBL Professional, Lexicon, Shure Incorporated, and Sony/Philips.^[1]

Technical Grammy Award
Awarded for	Contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field
Country	United States
Presented by	The Recording Academy
First award	1994
Website	www.grammy.com/awards/technical-awards

Technical Grammy recipients

The following individuals and companies have received Technical Grammys, listed by year.^[2]

Year	Recipient(s)	Ref.
1994	Dr. Thomas G. Stockham
1995	Ray Dolby
1997	Rupert Neve
1998	George Massenburg
1998	Sony/Philips
1999	Georg Neumann GmbH
2000	Bill Putnam, AMS Neve
2001	Les Paul, Digidesign	[3]
2002	Robert Moog, Apple Computer Inc.	[4]
2003	Geoff Emerick, Shure Inc.
2004	Douglas Sax, Solid State Logic
2005	Phil Ramone, JBL Professional
2006	Tom Dowd, Bell Labs/Western Electric
2007	David M. Smith, Yamaha Corporation	[5]
2008	John Eargle, Ampex Corporation	[6]
2009	Clarence "Leo" Fender, Universal Audio
2010	Thomas Alva Edison, AKG Acoustics GmbH
2011	Roger Linn, Waves Audio
2012	Roger Nichols, Celemony
2013	Ikutaro Kakehashi and Dave Smith, Royer Labs
2014	Emile Berliner, Lexicon
2015	Ray Kurzweil	[7]
2016	Harvey Fletcher, EMT
2017	Alan Blumlein
2018	Richard Factor and Anthony Agnello
2019	Saul Walker
2020	George Augspurger
2021	Daniel Weiss
2023	Audio Engineering Society, Dr. Andy Hildebrand
2024	Tom Kobayashi, Tom Scott
2025	Leo Beranek