Scott Metcalfe is a recording engineer and music technologist based in Baltimore, MD where he is the chair of Music Engineering and Technology, Director of Recording Arts and Sciences, and holds the rank of Full Professor at The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University.

He has engineered hundreds of recordings in many different styles of music, with a primary focus on location classical recording. Notable projects include engineering studio albums of choral works by composers Paul Mealor and Patrick Hawes, both performed by the professional choir Voce and released internationally on Signum Classics (UK); engineering two studio albums with noted double bassist Robert Black released on Mode Records; live audio recordings and livestream mix for video broadcasts with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra from Strathmore and Maryland Hall; and editing, mixing and mastering of orchestral and electronic music for three released of the Sid Meier’s Civilization series of video games.

He has been a guest on the nationally syndicated NPR program Talk of the Nation Science Friday, lectured as a guest of the Engineering Colloquium at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and has presented lectures and workshops on recording engineering abroad in South Korea, Scotland and England.

In 2017, Oxford University Press published his first book Creating Sounds from Scratch on the subject of music synthesis.