Rainer Maillard is a producer, an engineer and general manager of Emil Berliner Studios. As a recording engineer, he has won four GRAMMY Awards. He works with well-known artists, such as Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón and Lang Lang. The Emil Berliner Studios are taking an almost retro-futuristic approach: in addition to state-of-the-art analogue and high-end digital technology, Direct-to-Disc also offers the most original of all recording methods for Vinyl. Using analogue studio technology only, recordings are cut directly on lacquer discs.