Real name: Stig Fredrik Gert Ericsson Palmcrantz

Swedish, distinguished, sound engineer, b. February 1 1938 in Skedevi.

He has an extensive music and sound resumé and have worked with major productions and artists in the jazz- and classical music scenes.
Palmcrantz founded Figaro Music & Media Group AB in 2011 together with Fredrik Möller.

He commenced his career in the late 1950s, at the gramophone studios of Europa Film. In 1976 Palmcrantz recorded Sweden's best-selling jazz record of all time, Arne Domnérus, Bengt Hallberg, Georg Riedel, Egil Johansen, Lars Erstrand - Jazz At The Pawnshop, still in use as an audio reference around the world today. Since 1994 Palmcrantz has been pursuing new techniques in audio reproduction, using the hand-built microphones of Didrick De Geer. He has made recordings in locations as diverse as the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Carnegie Hall in New York.