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 Phil Ramone is a legendary music producer who's helmed recordings of a who's who of 20th century popular music, the likes of Frank Sinatra, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Burt Bacharach, Paul McCartney, Barbra Streisand and Tony Bennett. Since the early 1960s, Ramone has played an integral role in pioneering many of the recording industry's technological developments.
Among his achievements: the first use of a solid-state console for recording and mastering; the first Dolby four-track discrete sound for the 1976 movie A Star Is Born, for which he connected for the first time a movie studio and post-production facility via satellite; the first Dolby optical surround sound for the 1980 movie One Trick Pony; the first use of live digital recording for Joel's Songs in the Attic, and the first use of a fiber-optic system to record tracks in real time from different locations for Sinatra's Duets I & II. Not surprisingly, a Ramone-produced album, Billy Joel's 52nd Street (1978) was the first pop CD manufactured in Japan in 1982; he also produced one of the first music DVDs in 1997, Dave Grusin Presents West Side Story.
 Nine-time Grammy winner Ramone, chairman emeritus of the board of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS), serves as chairman of NARAS's Producers and Engineers Wing. He has always been associated with quality. When in the studio, Phil doesn't mess around. He presently is an official endorser of Monster Cable Prolink Cables.
For more information, check out: www.philramone.com
Phil Ramone photographed by Wes Bender ©2000
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