10 Facts About Greg Calbi

Gregory Calbi was born on April 3,1949 and is an American mastering engineer at Sterling Sound, New Jersey.

Greg Calbi was born on April 3,1949, in Yonkers, New York, and raised in Bayside, Queens, New York.

Greg Calbi graduated in 1966 from Bishop Reilly High School in Fresh Meadows.

Greg Calbi then earned his master's degree in Political Media Studies at the University of Massachusetts.

However, Greg Calbi was asked by someone who worked at the Record Plant to drive a truck to Duke University to record Yes on the Close to the Edge Tour and soon after that began his career in 1972 as an assistant studio engineer at the Record Plant, working alongside engineers Jack Douglas, Jay Messina and Shelly Yakus, and Jimmy Iovine who was an assistant engineer at that time.

In two years, Greg Calbi began cutting vinyl in the mastering room with his high school and college friend, Tom Rabstenek, who had taken over The Cutting Room when George Marino left to go to Sterling Sound.

Greg Calbi worked at the Record Plant until 1976 when a position was offered to him by Lee Hulko, owner of Sterling Sound.

In 1994, Greg Calbi left Sterling for Masterdisk where he worked until 1998 when Greg Calbi, Ted Jensen and Tom Coyne, along with Murat Aktar and UK based Metropolis, purchased Sterling Sound from Lee Hulko.

Greg Calbi has garnered 12 Mix Foundation TEC Award nominations for Creative Achievement, winning two of them.

Greg Calbi has mastered over 7500 albums during his career; a list of noteworthy music Greg Calbi has mastered includes:.