Joe LaPorta, a GRAMMY nominated and TEC award winning Mastering Engineer, has joined the staff at Sterling Sound as a Senior Engineer.
LaPorta began his engineering career at The Lodge, and over the past eight years has amassed a diverse discography including artists like Foo Fighters, Vampire Weekend, Tiesto, the Killers, Beach House, Imagine Dragons, Postal Service, Garbage, Jimmy Cliff, Armin Van Buuren, Neon Trees, Neutral Milk Hotel, amongst others.
A graduate of NYU's music technology program, Joe's also works as a consultant for one of the world’s leading forensic musicologists and has worked on many high profile cases ranging from the Beatles to Michael Jackson.
Fellow Senior Engineer, and longtime Sterling Sound mainstay, Greg Calbi comments: “Having been impressed with the quality of Joe’s work over the past few years, once having met him, I became even more impressed with his work ethic, his ability to communicate his ideas, and the passion he has for what we do as mastering engineers.”
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