Doug Geist is the owner and principal engineer/producer at Santa Fe Center Studios. He teaches audio courses at UNM and is the author of an audio workbook, Audio Graffiti. He has been an audio engineer since 1985, working at Audio by Design, Sunrise Teleproductions and C& D Sport Studios, as well as a freelance engineer/producer. Before he got into the audio business, he was a professional drummer and vocalist. Doug attended Berkley School of Music in Boston, as well as UNM, the Recording Workshop (a technical division of the University of Ohio) and Pro School in New York.

Doug has worked on music production for international, national, and local releases.  Over the years he has been nominated seven times for a Grammy© and won one Grammy© Award. He has also won a Nammy Award, and many other awards for excellence in engineering from the New Mexico Music Awards in the categories of Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Spanish, Rock, Rock Alternative, Country, Western, R&B, World Beat, Native American and producer, engineer. Doug has done commercial production for national, regional and local products and over the years has garnered a National Addy Award and Regional Addy Awards, Telly Awards, Videographer Awards, Rocky Awards and New Mexico Music Awards for the best jingle, to name a few.

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