Joe Meek

A truly visionary figure within the recording industry, Joe Meek helped shape the sound of pop music in the '60s and for decades to come. A short list of the techniques he pioneered explains why he's considered one of the most influential engineers ever to work in a studio. Overdubbing, spring reverb, compression, sound separation, and close miking all became industry standards, while his experiments with tape loops, sampling, and handcrafted electronics paved the way for later generations of hip-hop and electronic music artists. Meek was among the first to use the studio as a...