14 Facts About George Marino

George Marino was an American mastering engineer known for working on albums by rock bands starting in the late 1960s.

George Marino attended Christopher Columbus High School there and learned to play the saxophone and bass fiddle in the high school band and was classically trained on guitar.

George Marino broke into the music business as a guitarist playing rock and roll in local New York City bands such as The Chancellors and The New Sounds Ltd.

In 1967, George Marino landed his first job in the industry as a librarian and assistant at Capitol Studios.

When Capitol Records closed its New York studio in 1971, George Marino joined the fledgling Record Plant, eventually becoming a partner in the mastering business of the Record Plant called the Master Cutting Room, which was on West 44th Street in Manhattan.

From 1973, until his death in 2012, George Marino worked at Sterling Sound.

George Marino's studio is one of the three surround sound studios at Sterling and it was designed by Fran Manzella, FM Design.

George Marino's room became one of the few mastering suites in the industry, if not the only one, that was capable of doing both surround sound and vinyl mastering.

George Marino mastered many of John Lennon's and Yoko Ono's albums, one of them being Double Fantasy with producer Jack Douglas.

George Marino received his first and only Grammy for Arcade Fire's The Suburbs, the year before he died.

From 1969 to 2012, George Marino mastered albums which under current rules, would have won him an additional seven Grammys in the categories of Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: three for Album of the Year winners Innervisions, Double Fantasy and The Bodyguard, two Record of the Year Grammys for "I Will Always Love You" and "Clocks", and two more for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for his mastering of Innervisions and Chicago 17.

George Marino died on June 4,2012, after a year of having lung cancer.

George Marino was nominated for the Mix Foundation's TEC Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in 1985,1991,1992, and 1993.

George Marino mastered and remastered thousands of albums in over 40 years as a mastering engineer.