George Massenburg

Cavallo plays multiple instruments and has professional credits for his bass, keyboard, organ, piano, guitar, and percussion work.

Cavallo worked with George Massenburg.

Ooh, famous audio guy in the audio world.

He invented the parametric EQ, or at least that's what he's known for.

But unfortunately, and like with most things in audio,

we were not shown whether or not they sounded like moose cock.

Anyway, Cavallo worked with George Massenburg at the Complex Recording Studios early in his career.

He joined Warner Brothers Records as an A&R representative in 1987 and worked with Black Sabbath as one of his first assignments.

Because you could tune the stuff, and that was unheard of at that point.

Sweepable EQ, I think George Massenburg, his company, original company was ITT down in Maryland.

He didn't patent the concept of the variable state equalizer parametric, but he was, I think, the forerunner of that whole technology.

And somehow Billy came up with the design.

So I wound up mixing 99% of the opening acts because I don't think anyone that would really... worked with other than bands like Orleans and Little Feet.

They had their own engineers.

But Little Feet, we did some shows in the very beginning, and their own engineer was George Massenburg.

Oh, wow.

It was 80-some track.

It's a Massenburg board.

Massenburg, you can look him up.

George Massenburg, who I believe hates Scientology, he hand-built that board.

There is everybody from what's-his-name Foo Fighters to everybody wants that board.

It is one of the most known about famous boards.

There's only three in existence.

You look up George Massenburg.