He has recorded Bruno Mars, Florence and the Machine, Blondie, and Kiss. He has handled live audio for the Vogue Met Gala for three years. But one of the biggest feathers in Voorheesville native Greg Tobler’s cap is the Boston/New England Emmy he recently won, for live audio engineering on “Community Auditions — Star of the Day,” a long-running New England talent show.

Tobler says that the main part of his work these days is in what he calls “tone crafting,” or recording and mixing. He does this for both music and television.

He does “a bit of producing” at the same time, he said, trying to inspire musicians to have good performances that he can then capture on tape.  

Additionally, he is a lifelong percussionist and has played on a number of albums.

Tobler, who is 35 and now lives in Stamford, Connecticut with his wife, Kirsten, and their young son, Erik, was the only child of two music-teacher parents.

Lydia Crounse Tobler, who played flute, piano, and harp, taught music in the Voorheesville schools for 35 years and served for years as the district’s music director. The high school’s performing arts center was named in her honor after her death in 2010 from cancer.

Leonard Tobler, a percussionist, has been a performer throughout his career, including with local and regional symphonies and in chamber orchestras and the orchestras of Broadway shows. He is also a veteran music teacher at several different school districts in the area; he spent nine years in Schalmont and 20 in the Bethlehem school district.

Mr. Tobler also gave drum lessons at the Tobler home. He relates that when Greg was a very young child — from the time he was about 2 — Mr. Tobler would set up the boy’s trains in another area of the basement during lessons. As Mr. Tobler remembers it, Greg was always listening and “picking up stuff even though he was playing with his trains.” His ears, Mr. Tobler said, “were always kind of tuned into the lessons.”

He also shared a story of Greg’s early interest in electronics. “I had a little recording studio in the basement and he was always fascinated by my reel-to-reel tape recorder, the way the tape moved from one reel to the other. A few years later, my tape recorder disappeared, and all the pieces of it turned up in the bottom drawer of his dresser. He had taken it apart, screw by screw, to see how the thing worked.”

On the show for which he won the Emmy, Greg Tobler said, his responsibility is to “mike up, record, and mix everything live-to-tape.” Like many popular television talent shows, he said, the program is shot in front of a live audience, but then engineered before it is aired.

“There’s a live backing band that backs up the people singing. Sometimes people come in and do a solo thing, so there’s a whole ‘live music’ aspect of it that needs to be recorded and mixed well.” Later, the audio goes to postproduction, he says, “but postproduction can’t do anything unless I do a good job at the start.”

Speaking about the Met Galas, Tobler said that he worked with a production company called 1000 Percent, which had been asked by Vogue to document the event. “That was our task. And we did it so well that it ended up on the front page of Vogue.com the first time we did it. And then they hired us again. We kind of set the bar for the next few years, which was really kind of a nice thing.”

Tobler also works at the U.S. Tennis Open every year, mixing a show called the American Express Radio Show that continues live for “two weeks straight.” Event organizers hand out, Tobler says, “hundreds of thousands of radios” to fans at the Open. They then use them to listen to that show, which weaves together “on-air talent, interviews, originally produced material, commercials, music, commentators, and a live plaza show with coaches, former players, and fan questions.”

Both of his parents influenced him a lot, in different musical directions, Tobler says. “My dad picked some really good concerts — mostly rock, jazz, or swing — for me to go see when I was young. And my mom took me to the Old Songs Music Festival in Voorheesville and exposed me to a lot of folk and traditional and world music. Then I had the radio for all the pop music.”

One of his most recent projects is compiling a drum-beats catalog to store in his computer for use in future collaborations. He records himself playing different rhythms and tempos, and playing on an assortment of drums in different environments, to create a variety of brief audio clips that he can potentially adapt and mix in, in the future, to enhance another artist’s audio.

He is also currently at work — together with composer and fellow Voorheesville native Joe Kraemer — on a documentary about John Paul II, the fall of Communism, and the Solidarity movement in Eastern Europe, for which Tobler is doing all of the audio work.

“I ran around in Eastern Europe last year doing all these interviews with a film crew,” he said recently. “I did all the location sound for it and will do all the postproduction mixing for it — the sound design — and now the final music mix for it. It’s kind of an all-encompassing thing.”

The film, which does not yet have a title, should be airing at the end of this year, Tobler said.

Right now, Tobler said, Kraemer is busy composing and scoring the next Tom Cruise “Mission: Impossible” film, “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation.”

Asked if his son, who is 2-1/2, is showing any musical aptitude, Tobler said that he is. “Whenever I have Palladia on — which is a cable music channel — he gets into a kind of Elvis stance with his little ukulele guitar and tries to rock-and-roll along with the guitar on the screen. He also likes to play drums, jumping up and down on the pedals and getting the sticks and hitting things.”

Sometimes his son uses the drumsticks loudly, Tobler said, and sometimes “very quietly and thoughtfully.”