Multi-Grammy Award winning Recording Engineer Michael Bishop Passes

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Michael Bishop (sound engineer) - Wikipedia

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Michael Bishop died yesterday at the age of 69. He won 10 Grammy Awards. He began at Telarc in 1978, where he was chief engineer for 20 years until Telarc closed its doors in 2008. He then cofounded Five/Four Productions with colleagues from Telarc.

I got to know him when I wrote my Decca book for Winston Ma from 2013-15. Michael and his colleague at Five/Four Robert Friedrich remastered the Decca recordings that were included in the four CD's that came with the book (Decca:Supreme Stereophonic Legacy by First Impression Music,now out of print). Winston did the producing, and Michael did the first two CD's, while Robert did the last two. Winston had a great sense of music and great ears, and he went back and forth with both Michael and Robert before he was satisfied with the sound. It was fun hearing the intermediate stages of the recordings and the subtle details. I even got a chance to put in my 2 cents worth from time to time.

Winston used Five/Four to do the remastering of many of his releases during the last 10 years of Winston's life (he passed away in 2016). Winston gave me an almost complete collection of the CD's he had released, including many Telarc reissues that he had Michael remaster, recordings that Michael had originally engineered. I have some of the original Telarc CD's which FIM reissued. Subtle improvements of the recordings can be heard. Very interesting when the same engineer gets a second chance to improve his original work.

Larry

 

[Bruce B]

RIP Michael Bishop

Today we lost a giant. Everyone knew he was a giant. Everyone who ever worked with him knew he was a giant. To me he was a giant. He was my colleague, my dear friend, my brother. He never thought of himself as anything other than a man, a man who was an engineer who loved what he did. He loved...

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[astrotoy]

RIP Michael Bishop

Today we lost a giant. Everyone knew he was a giant. Everyone who ever worked with him knew he was a giant. To me he was a giant. He was my colleague, my dear friend, my brother. He never thought of himself as anything other than a man, a man who was an engineer who loved what he did. He loved...

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Thanks, Bruce. I didn't see your earlier post. Larry

 

[Addicted to hifi]

Michael Bishop (sound engineer) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Michael Bishop died yesterday at the age of 69. He won 10 Grammy Awards. He began at Telarc in 1978, where he was chief engineer for 20 years until Telarc closed its doors in 2008. He then cofounded Five/Four Productions with colleagues from Telarc.

I got to know him when I wrote my Decca book for Winston Ma from 2013-15. Michael and his colleague at Five/Four Robert Friedrich remastered the Decca recordings that were included in the four CD's that came with the book (Decca:Supreme Stereophonic Legacy by First Impression Music,now out of print). Winston did the producing, and Michael did the first two CD's, while Robert did the last two. Winston had a great sense of music and great ears, and he went back and forth with both Michael and Robert before he was satisfied with the sound. It was fun hearing the intermediate stages of the recordings and the subtle details. I even got a chance to put in my 2 cents worth from time to time.

Winston used Five/Four to do the remastering of many of his releases during the last 10 years of Winston's life (he passed away in 2016). Winston gave me an almost complete collection of the CD's he had released, including many Telarc reissues that he had Michael remaster, recordings that Michael had originally engineered. I have some of the original Telarc CD's which FIM reissued. Subtle improvements of the recordings can be heard. Very interesting when the same engineer gets a second chance to improve his original work.

Larry

Sad news.I have lots of Telarc cds.didn’t know Telarc doesn’t exist anymore.