About Speaker

Paul Freeman is a Recording Engineer, Music Producer, Sound Designer, Software Designer, Guitar Player and Principal Audio Artist / Beam Meister - Sphere. His music business career began at age 14 while playing guitar in a successful touring rock band. Paul started engineering at the age of 18 and began producing professionally at age 25. Paul has produced and or engineered records for such artist as Kenny Loggins, The Beach Boys, The Doobie Bros., Marvin Gay, Dianna Ross to name a few. He has received twelve Grammy nominations for his record works as well as six gold and three platinum records.

Paul was involved in the “Digital Audio Revolution” from the beginning producing and engineering for Telarc – the premier Audiofile label at the time. Telarc was one of the first record companies to release digitally recorded Compact Discs. Paul produced and recorded the first all digitally recorded and mixed Pop record – The California Project featuring The Beach Boys as well as the first SurroundSound CD – Spies, “Music of Espionage” for Telarc.

In 1976, Paul was the recording engineer on Disney’s Main Street Electrical Parade - Disneyland. This project started his love for Theme Park and Production Music. Since that time, Paul has recorded/Produced over 1,000 projects for Disney, Universal, DreamWorks, Busch Entertainment and others.

In 1992, Paul founded Audio By The Bay, an audio post production house providing audio post production services to Disney, Universal as well as for feature films and corporate events.

In 1996, the Music Productions arm of ABTB was created and Clients include Disney, Universal, Warner Bros, DreamWorks and Busch Entertainment. In 2002, Paul produced the Olympic Torch Theme Song featuring Aretha Franklin as well as a new theme song for the Special Olympics. Paul produced the soundtrack of “Wicked, The Musical” for Universal Studios Japan and Steven Schwartz, as well as many Disney projects. Paul produced and engineered the soundtrack and immersive sound design for Beyond All Boundaries at the National WWII Museum for executive producer Tom Hanks.

Paul is currently The Principal Audio Artist, “Beam Meister” at MSG Sphere Studios and is part of the development team assisting in defining the entire audio pipeline, from recording concepts and techniques to audio editing, mixing, and spatialization, through to final playback and show control integration. Paul has been involved with the development of the Holoplot system currently deployed at Sphere Las Vegas for over five years.

Paul has received numerous awards for his work including twelve THEA Awards, four IAAPA Brass Ring Awards, twelve Grammy nominations, three Emmys, a special technical Academy award as well as six gold and three platinum records.