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R. Gene Eichelberger (Engineer)



Gene Eichelberger is a recording, mixing and mastering engineer who has worked with a veritable "who's who" in the music industry.

In his own words: "I’m GeneEichelberger. I was born December 27, 1940. I got hepatitis my senior year of high school, which was when Ireally started in audio, because I tore a Silvertone amplifier part. And that’s before they were using permanent magnets. They were using the coil that was the magnet for the speaker as a coil for the power supply of amplifiers. Therefore, if you cut the wrong wire and got to it, you would get three to four hundred volts across your finger tips, with just enough amperage to hurt you. Not to hurt you bad. I did that the first time out. I have an electric fence; it hurts you, but it won’t kill you because it pulses. That amplifier didn’t pulse; it was just on. It didn’t kill me or hurt me;it just scared me. That’s why I got the National Radio course—to figure out things. I took a course while I was home in bed for the whole senior year with this hepatitis—a National Radio Institute course on audio, on how to fix things, not how to record, but how to fix an amplifier or build things like that. So, that’s when I started, ’58to ’59."

History

Gene Eichelberger was born 5 miles outside of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His father was a florist who mostly sold to the Pittsburg area, so Gene grew up surrounded by a multitude of greenhouses and living things.