METalliance Announces WSDG as Newest Pro Partner
NASHVILLE, TN, October 31, 2024 – The METalliance (Music Engineering & Technology Alliance) has announced that WSDG (Walters-Storyk Design Group) has become the newest Pro Partner of the organization and the first recording studio designers to be invited as a member. Pro Partner membership is limited to companies that have shown the ability to manufacture and distribute products and services that meet the organization’s professional audio standards.
The METalliance's George Massenburg commented, “WSDG’s incredible legacy of innovation and excellence in recording studio design speaks for itself. They embody all of the core traits inherent to the mission of The METalliance and we are thrilled to include them in our organization. All of our Pro Partners must be unanimously agreed upon to be included, and with WSDG that was an incredibly easy decision to reach.”
“All of us here at WSDG greatly respect the members of the METalliance and appreciate all the exemplary work the organization has done to elevate the bar of professional audio standards,” said WSDG Co-Founding Partner John Storyk. “We’re thrilled to be the fist design firm to partner with them as a member.”
“In all our design and integration work we have strived to reflect the highest touchstones, and interaction with the METalliance has been essential in these projects,” added WSDG Partner and Director of Business Development Sergio Molho. “This METalliance Pro Partnership recognition validates the attention to quality that we put into all our work and opens up new possibilities for collaboration in the future.”
WSDG is a global architecture, acoustic, electro-acoustics and advanced audio-visual systems integration consulting and design firm. Pioneering architect/acoustician Storyk (AIA), who began his career in 1969 with the creation of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios in New York, co-founded WSDG with wife and business partner Beth Walters in 1987. The firm has a global team of over 70 partners, associates, and design professionals with four primary offices – New York and Miami in the United States, Basel, Switzerland, and Berlin, Germany – as well as representation in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia.
The METalliance Pro Partnership is a group of companies that share the founders' belief that a call for quality is important. It is limited, by invitation, to those companies that provide products and services deemed worthy of consideration by professionals. WSDG joins other METalliance Pro Partners: AKG, Audio-Technica, Austrian Audio, Avid, Cakewalk, Digital Audio Denmark, DPA Microphones, Eventide, Genelec, Izotope, JBL Pro, Lewitt, Lexicon, Manley Laboratories, GML, Millennia Music & Media Systems, Neumann USA, NTP Technology, Prism Sound, Royer Labs, Sanken Microphones, Sennheiser, Solid State Logic, Sommer Cable, Sonnox, Steinberg, tc electronic, Universal Audio, and Yamaha.
For more information about WSDG, please visit: http://www.wsdg.com/
For more information about METalliance, please visit: http://www.metalliance.com
About the METalliance
Established in 2005, The METalliance (Music Engineering and Technology Alliance) is composed of top award-winning audio engineers/producers Chuck Ainlay, Niko Bolas, Jimmy Douglass, Frank Filipetti, George Massenburg, Sylvia Massy, and Elliot Scheiner. The METalliance works with producers, engineers, educators and manufacturers to further the best practices and technology developed in modern recording and to help ensure the skills and techniques that have developed through the history of recording are carried forward.
The METalliance ProPartner program rewards those manufacturers truly deserving recognition as advocates for better quality in audio recording and reproduction. Through the ProPartner program, the organization works closely with companies to evaluate, recognize, and certify products and services that meet the best standards for quality in the recording arts and science.
ABOUT WSDG, LLC
WSDG (Walters-Storyk Design Group) is a 13-time TEC award-winning global architectural acoustic consulting, design, and A/V integration engineering firm. Founded by interior designer Beth Walters and architect/acoustician John Storyk (AIA), the firm is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence through the intersecting worlds of architecture, acoustics and technology.
Past clients include artists such as Jay-Z, Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, J Cole, and Jack Antonoff, corporate entities such as Spotify, Sony, CBS, Novartis, and IBM, and educational institutions such as Berklee College of Music, UCLA, University of Music Vienna, and NYU.