Editors & Authors

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Bobby Owsinski is an author, producer, music industry veteran and technical consultant who has written numerous books covering all aspects of audio recording. To read more from Bobby, and to acquire copies of his outstanding books such as The Recording Engineer’s Handbook, be sure to check out his website at www.bobbyowsinski.com.
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The late Craig Leerman worked in a wide range of roles in professional audio for more than 30 years in a dynamic career that encompassed touring, theater, live televised broadcast events and even concerts at the White House. He was also the owner of Tech Works, a regional production company that focuses on corporate events based in Reno.
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Mike Sessler has been involved with church sound and live production for more than 30 years, and is the author of the Church Tech Arts blog (churchtecharts.org). Based near Nashville, he serves as the Maker of Magic for Vantage Pro, which provides design-build production solutions for churches and other facilities.
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Keith has covered professional audio and systems contracting for more than 30 years, authoring hundreds of articles in addition to hands-on work in every facet of publishing. He fostered the content of ProSoundWeb (PSW) from its inception, helping build pro audio’s largest portal website, and has also served for several years as editor in chief of Live Sound International (LSI).
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Chris Huff is a long-time practitioner of church sound and writes at Behind The Mixer, covering topics ranging from audio fundamentals to dealing with musicians – and everything in between.
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Nigel Redmon is a musician, electrical and software engineer, and independent developer, specializing in digital audio signal processing applications. He has developed products for Line 6, Equator Audio, Alesis, Oberheim, and others.
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Joe Gilder is a Nashville based engineer, musician, and producer who also provides training and advice at the Home Studio Corner.
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Based in Toronto, Kevin Young is a freelance music and tech writer, professional musician and composer.
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Gary Zandstra has worked in church production and as an AV systems integrator for more than 35 years. He’s also contributed numerous articles to ProSoundWeb over the past decade.
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Pat & Brenda Brown lead SynAudCon, a leader in online audio training. For more information go to www.prosoundtraining.com.
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Karl serves as vice president of sales/service at Lectrosonics and has worked in professional audio for more than 25 years.
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Michael Lawrence is a systems engineer and audio educator, and serves as the technical editor for various pro audio publications. Connect with Michael at precisionaudioservices.com.
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Gregory A, DeTogne is a writer and editor who has served the pro audio industry for the more than 32 years.
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Mark Frink is a touring sound engineer who has mixed monitors for numerous top artists.
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Bruce Bartlett is a recording engineer, audio journalist, and microphone engineer (www.bartlettaudio.com). His latest books are Practical Recording Techniques 7th edition and Recording Music On Location 2nd edition.
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Erik worked in a wide range of roles in pro audio for more than 20 years in a dynamic career that encompasses system design and engineering in the live, install and recording markets. He also spent a number of years as a church production staff member and Media Director, and as an author for several leading industry publications before joining the PSW team as senior editor from 2015 to 2020. His latest project is UVXcreative.com.
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Ike Zimbel is a wireless frequency coordinator and tech based in Toronto. Reach him via LinkedIn. Ike is a freelance RF technician available for tours, one-offs, off-site frequency coordination and consulting on RF issues.
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Mike Sokol has worked as a sound system designer and engineer for more than 50 years, and is also noted as a top worship audio educator, including presenting courses for Church Sound University training online that’s available at churchsoundu.thinkific.com.
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Jonah Altrove is a veteran live audio professional on a constant quest to discover more about the craft. Send him your "Ask Jonah" questions at [email protected].
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Matthew Weiss engineers from his private facility in Philadelphia, PA. A list of clients and credits are available at Weiss-Sound.com. To get a taste of The Maio Collection, the debut drum library from Matthew, check out The Maio Sampler Pack.
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Peter Janis is the former CEO of Radial Engineering, Primacoustic, Hafler and Tonebone. He now runs exit-plan.ca where he assists business owners with their strategic planning, growth and eventual retirement.
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Jon Tidey is a Producer / Engineer who runs his own studio, EPIC Sounds, and enjoys writing about audio on his blog AudioGeekZine.com.
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Becky Pell received a TPi Award for Monitor Engineer Of The Year 2022 (congratulations!). With more than 25 years of experience in live sound, she toured as a monitor and RF tech with Black Crowes, Travis and Kylie Minogue before moving behind the desk to mix monitors for artists including Aha, Muse, Take That, Natalie Imbruglia, The War of the Worlds, Anastacia and Westlife.
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Jim Yakabuski has spent more than 35 years as a live sound engineer, working with artists such as Van Halen, Journey, Avril Lavigne, Peter Frampton, and many others. He's also by author of "Professional Sound Reinforcement Techniques," which provides a collection of tips and techniques for mix engineers. It's available via Amazon. Reach Jim at [email protected].
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Ales Stefancic has served for more than 20 years as a FOH/monitoring engineer, in addition to being a technical director and mix engineer for the band Siddharta. Based in Slovenia, Europe, he's also a musician and project studio owner. Go to gainmedialab.com for more of his articles and a roster of upcoming online courses.
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Andy Coules is a sound engineer and audio educator who has toured the world with a diverse array of acts in a wide range of genres.
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Gary is a writer who has worked in pro audio for more than 25 years, holding marketing and management positions with several leading manufacturers.
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Over the course of more than four decades, the late Ken DeLoria tuned hundreds of sound systems, and as the founder of Apogee Sound, he developed the TEC Award-winning AE-9 loudspeaker.
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Curt Taipale of Taipale Media Systems heads up Church Soundcheck.com, a thriving community dedicated to helping technical worship personnel, as well as the Church Sound Boot Camp series of educational classes held throughout the U.S.
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Samantha Potter is senior contributing editor and worship tech liaison for Church Sound and ProSoundWeb, and she’s also the co-director of the Church Sound Podcast. In addition, she's on the team at Allen & Heath. Get in touch at [email protected].
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Dave Rat heads up Rat Sound Systems (www.ratsound.com), a leading sound reinforcement company based in Southern California, and has also been a mix engineer for more than 30 years.
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Steve Milner (aka @DcSoundOp) is a freelance sound engineer who travels the world for work and attempts to create educational and entertaining videos and production related content along the way.
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The late Andrew Stone served as the production director and senior audio engineer at Church on the Move in Tulsa, OK. He was also a founding member of MxU (www.mxu.rocks), a brand designed to create and inspire better leaders and better audio engineers.
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Old Sound Man is a recurring column that is hilarious and informative at the same time. He answers your questions which provides him with both the chance to pontificate and provide useful information.
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Barry is a veteran L.A.-based recording engineer as well as a noted writer on recording topics. Be sure to visit his website, and also check out his related article, “The Wonderful Of Microphone Techniques For Recording Drums”.
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Based in The Netherlands, Merlijn van Veen (www.merlijnvanveen.nl) is a noted audio educator, and he also serves as senior technical support and education specialist for Meyer Sound.
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Michael Fay is owner/principal at GraceNote Design Studio, an audio, video and acoustic design consultancy; a sustaining member of SynAudCon; a member of AVIXA and the Acoustical Society of America; former Integration Division general manager and senior design consultant with Sound Image; and former editor of Recording Engineer/Producer (RE/P) magazine.
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Bob has been designing and tuning sound systems for over 30 years. The third edition of his book Sound Systems: Design and Optimization is available from Routledge. He lives in NYC and is the director of system optimization for Meyer Sound.
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Ethan Winer has been an audio engineer and professional musician for more than 45 years. His Cello Rondo music video has received nearly two million views on YouTube and other web sites, and his book The Audio Expert published by Focal Press is available at amazon.com and through Ethan’s own web site ethanwiner.com. Ethan is also a principal at RealTraps, a leading manufacturer of high quality acoustic treatment.
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Bruce A. Miller is an acclaimed recording engineer who operates an independent recording studio and the BAM Audio School website.
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Daniel Keller is a musician, engineer and producer. Since 2002 he has been president and CEO of Get It In Writing, a public relations and marketing firm focused on audio and multimedia professionals and their toys. Despite being immersed in professional audio his entire adult life, he still refuses to grow up.
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Michael Reed, a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), is an audio engineer and entrepreneur based in southern New England, where he heads up Marathon Audio Systems. Read more of his articles here.
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Bruce has been a systems engineer and front of house mixer for more than 35 years, and has also built, owned and operated recording studios, and designed and installed sound systems.
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Charlie Hughes has worked at Peavey Electronics and Altec Lansing, and currently heads up Excelsior Audio Design & Services, a consultation, design and measurement services company based near Charlotte, NC. As a loudspeaker design engineer, he's devised more than 60 products and has been issued five patents, and he's also helped to develop and implement a sophisticated multi-axis rotation mechanism to aid in the measurement of loudspeaker directivity. He’s also a member of the AES, ASA, CEA and NSCA.
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Duke DeJong serves as president of integration for Vantage Pro, a national integrator of audio, video, and lighting systems for houses of worship. Over the past two-plus decades, his career has centered around the intersection of ministry and technology. His early years on staff with for Youth For Christ and a Christian radio station led to a decade as a staff church technical director. He then joined a technology integrator where he spent the next 10 years developing new and improved processes for equipping the church while building and leading an amazing team. Duke is most passionate about people, vision, ministry, and process, which is evident in his work with hundreds of churches and in the teams he’s helped build.
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James Attaway runs Attaway Audio (attawayaudio.com), an excellent resource for online worship audio technical training.
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Phil Garfinkel lives in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Among the many highlights of his audio experiences, hearing Claudia Engelhart mix Bill Frisell at “Jazz at Lincoln Center” is high on his personal Top 10 list.
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Nicholas Radina is a long-time audio engineer and musician based in Cincinnati who also tours as the monitor engineer with the band O.A.R. He invites your input via his website at NicholasRadina.com. Sign up for his upcoming educational workshop at SoundNerdsUnite.org.
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Chris Mitchell serves as FOH engineer for Umphrey’s McGee, a very popular rock band noted for experimenting with a wide range of musical styles. His hobbies include rebuilding vintage motorcycles and mixing consoles. Read more by Chris at flyingeyepro.wordpress.com.
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Gary has been designing and mixing sound for 40 years and is president of Gand Concert Sound, Elk Grove Village IL., just west of Chicago.
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Jeff Berryman serves as senior scientist at Electro-Voice/Bosch Communications, and prior to that worked with several leading touring sound and production companies for more than three decades.
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John Murray is a 40-year industry veteran who has worked for several leading manufacturers, and has also presented two published AES papers as well as chaired numerous SynAudCon workshops. He is currently the principal of Optimum System Solutions, a consulting firm based in Colorado.
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Teri was the long-time co-owner of Sound Services Inc., a sound company based in Texas.
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Dan Leafblad is an audio engineer who works at the intersection of AV and IT networking at Church of the Resurrection in the Kansas City area. Reach him at [email protected].
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Kent Margraves began with a B.S. in Music Business and soon migrated to the other end of the spectrum with a serious passion for audio engineering. Over the past 25 years he has spent time as a staff audio director at two mega churches, worked as worship applications specialist at Sennheiser and Avid, and toured as a concert front of house engineer. He currently works with WAVE in North Carolina and can be contacted at [email protected].
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Michael is the president of leading production company ATK Audiotek in Valencia, CA, and has been involved in the professional audio industry for more than 35 years. Beginning as a freelance mixer/engineer in the 1970s, he transitioned to working for manufacturers and has been employed by, developed products for, and consulted with major companies such as Yamaha and JBL Professional.
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The late Tom Young served as principle consultant for Electroacoustic Design Services in Connecticut, and he also designed hundreds of systems for churches and similar spaces.
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Katie Karch is a Dallas-based veteran freelance audio engineer (FOH/MON/RF) who works a wide range of live events. She is currently the A1 for a North American tour of a theatrical production.
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Tim is a senior application engineer with Shure. He is noted for his teaching ability, presenting seminars about sound to a wide range of audiences and is the author of the Audio Systems Guide For Houses Of Worship.
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After graduating from The Omega Studios' School in 2012, Nicholas began doing freelance audio engineering and post production based out of Baltimore. He now works at Omega as the director of marketing where he also maintains the social media accounts, blogs, and website.
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Carl Stewart has more than 25 years of experience as a freelance live sound engineer for corporate events in Orlando.
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David Williams is a freelance system tech and monitor engineer operating throughout the state of New York. He discovered the world of live sound while completing his electrical engineering degree and knew right away that he couldn't turn back.
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Bruce Borgerson is the owner of Strategic and Technical Communications, which offers a range of technical and marketing communications services to the pro audio and video industries. He combines more than three decades of hands-on experience (recording, live sound, contracting, video production) with writing, strategic planning and organizational skills.
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Chris “Sully” Sullivan collects cuneiform prediction software and the souls of FOH mixers. He’s served as system and mix engineer on numerous world tours.
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Eric Ferguson is an assistant professor of Live Sound Production at the New England School of Communications at Husson University in Maine. He also has extensive experience in the studio and with sound reinforcement, including world touring with artists such as Lee Ritenour and James Ingram.
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Jeffrey P. Fisher provides audio, video, music, writing, consulting, training, and media production and post-production services for individuals, corporate, and commercial clients through his own company, Fisher Creative Group. He also writes extensively about music, sound, and video for print and the web and has authored numerous books and training DVDs.
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Since his start almost 40 years ago on a Shure Vocalmaster system, James Cadwallader remains in love with live sound. Based in the western U.S., he’s held a wide range of professional audio positions, performing mixing, recording, and technician duties.
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James Stoffo is a noted RF consultant and chief technology officer for Radio Active Designs, a developer of wireless intercom systems.
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Tim Weaver has been a professional sound engineer for almost 30 years, working across all genres.
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Jim Yakabuski has spent more than 35 years as a live sound engineer, working with artists such Van Halen, Journey, Avril Lavigne, Peter Frampton, and many others. He’s also the author of “Professional Sound Reinforcement Techniques,” available via Amazon. Michael Lawrence is an independent front of house engineer and system tech, and he’s also the technical editor of various pro audio publications. Read more from Michael and reach him at precisionaudioservices.com.
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Daniel currently serves as CEO of EOS, a new company focused on offering cloud-based management solutions for IT and A/V integrators. He has spent his entire career in various integration industry roles. Most recently, Newman was CEO of United Visual where he led all day to day operations for the 60-plus-year-old integrator.
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Christopher Grimshaw is a long-time audio professional and the founder/owner of Grimshaw Audio, based in the U.K.
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Wayne Hawthorne is the owner and operator of Click Track Audio (clicktrackaudio.ca), a mobile production company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada that specializes in high-track count remote recording, live-to-air broadcasts and music mixing. With Click Track, he’s been music mixer on many national television and radio broadcasts. He also works with the next generation of audio professionals as a professor in Algonquin College’s Music Industry Arts program.
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José (Joe) Brusi is an independent electroacoustical consultant and the author of PAcalculate, a popular free app for iOS and Android that provides pro audio calculations, utilities and reference info.
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Robert Scovill is a 35-year veteran of professional concert sound and recording and has mixed more than 3,500 events for noted artists such as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Matchbox Twenty, Jackson Browne, Rush, Def Leppard and many others. In addition, he’s the pioneer of virtual sound check and modern multi-track archiving for concert tours, has garnered numerous industry accolades that include six TEC Awards, and also serves as senior specialist for Live Sound products at Avid.
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Casey Campbell is a veteran worship audio engineer and tech who shares a lot of great advice at www.livesounduniversity.net.
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DcSoundOp (a.k.a. Steve Milner) is a veteran audio professional who also created and runs the DcSoundOp site covering audio, production and related topics. Check it out at www.dcsoundop.com.
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Thanks to SoundGirls for providing this profile, and be sure to go to soundgirls.org to learn more about women in professional audio and production.
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Over a 30-year career, Brian Maddox has worked with everybody from U.S. Presidents to Patti LaBelle to The Pope. Specializing in corporate events, he's currently active as a freelance A1, RF coordinator, and comms tech. Reach him via LinkedIn.
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Eddie “El Brujo" Caipo is a veteran touring engineer who works with numerous top-flight artists.
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Todd Hartmann is the audio engineering coordinator for the Austin Stone Community Church as well as A1 systems engineer for Big House Sound in Austin, TX.
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Joe Begin, PE (Acoustical Engineering), a graduate of McGill University (B.Sc.) and the University of Canterbury (M.Sc.), has more than 35 years of experience in test and measurement. As director of applications and technical support at Audio Precision (www.ap.com), he is involved in product management, audio and electroacoustic test applications engineering, and technical support.
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Ben Jones is an audio engineer who enjoys learning new things and is always striving to be better. During his time pursuing a music education degree he discovered the world of live sound and his passion for the technical side of it. He aspires to do more system design and tuning for larger events.
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Bill Mueller is an audio engineer and instructor at Omega Recording Studios, has worked as an audio/video engineer since the early 1970s, has a Grammy-nomination, a TEC Award nomination, nominations for a variety of other music awards, and has worked with more than 150 major artists.
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Rob Stam has served as an AV system designer and installer for more than 25 years, and has been active as both a musician and sound operator as a church member.
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KL Gan had been with Seagate Singapore Design Centre for over 28 years and retired in 2015 from his role as an executive director in research and development department. He continues to serve as a volunteer leader with the Sound Ministry at New Creation Church in Singapore.
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Scott Carroll is executive vice president and program director of Take1 Insurance, which specializes in the entertainment industry, including live events.
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Bob Buontempo has more than 30 years of professional recording experience, and has been the president/owner of Buontempo Entertainment Services since 1976. He has also taught numerous recording and audio educational courses over the years.
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Casey Watson is a project manager and certified church consultant for Church Audio Video, which specializes in the design, installation and support of quality and affordable custom audio, video, lighting, broadcast and control systems for worship facilities. For more information, go here.
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Jerrold Stevens has more than 25 years of experience in the audio industry, including contracting, independent sales representative, live sound and studio engineering, and audio system consulting and design. Formerly with Eastern Acoustic Works, he is now with Marsh/PMK International.
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Tobias Goldmann received his MSc in Acoustical Engineering. His work focuses on the analysis, modeling and characterization of sound systems. Currently he is a development engineer with Germany-based professional loudspeaker company TW AUDiO and is a member of the AES and DEGA.
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Bernie Broderick is the founder of Truth in Audio and a veteran of live production with nearly 30 years of experience from sound company owner, pro-touring FOH, systems technician to 17 years as an educator for EAW. He was also one of the initial collaborators of the ADAPTive line of products and has worked intimately with hundreds of shows and numerous tours that utilize the product line.
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Rick Kamlet is responsible for Global Senior Product Management of loudspeakers for the Engineered and Commercial installation loudspeaker markets with a focus on product development at JBL Professional.
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Dr. Frederick J. Ampel has been involved in the professional A/V industry for more than 40 years, working as a systems designer, consultant, sales and marketing professional and market researcher. Presently he runs Technology Visions Analytics, a consultancy and market research firm.
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Paul Klimsons served as the long-time engineer for “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon,” has toured with top artists such as Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Drake and many others, and is the co-founder of The Roadie Clinic (theroadieclinic.com).
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David S. Eley is the author of The Audio Mastering Blueprint. In addition, he owns TGM Audio Mastering and operates the website MasteringTuition.Com.
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Based in the UK, Dr. Adam Hill is a veteran audio professional who teaches at the University of Derby’s BSc (Hons) Sound Light and Live Event Technology program and runs the MSc Audio Engineering program.
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Veteran audio professional and educator Hadi Sumoro leads the company he founded, HX Audio Lab (www.hxaudiolab.com), based in the Philadelphia metro area
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Kyle Jensen is a sound designer and audio engineer based in Rochester, NY. He graduated from American University with a Bachelor of Arts in Audio Production, and while there received an Outstanding Theater Sound Mixing Award. Notable design credits include How to Succeed in Business (American University), Chicago, Cabaret, and the regional premieres of Tuck Everlasting and Bright Star (Southeastern Summer Theatre Institute). He’s an affiliated professional member of the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA) as well as an associate member of the Association of Sound Designers (ASD).
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Steve Jennings is a photographer and writer in the pro audio and production industry for more than 35 years.
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Tom Lubin is an internationally recognized music producer and engineer, and is a Lifetime Member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammy voting member). He also co-founded the San Francisco chapter of NARAS. An accomplished author, his latest book is “Getting Great Sounds: The Microphone Book,” available from Amazon and a range of other sources.
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George Georges has been a sound designer and stagehand/technician for live theatre in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 30 years. He’s also guided high school youth in technical theatre for a dozen years and is a licensed electrician in the state of California. Reach him at [email protected].
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Cortney Lemke is a pastor in the Heartland with a penchant for writing and crafting meaningful worship experiences.
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Based in Baltimore, MD, Sam Zuckerman is an audio professional who likes to dabble in a bit of everything at either end of the snake. He currently serves as Senior Event Technician at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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Jeff Lange has assisted many churches internationally in designing audio/visual systems that are tailored to the needs a church worship service. A consultant and trainer for Sonic Art, LLC, he is frequently called upon to assist in identifying and resolving audio/visual problems due to system and/or acoustic challenges, and he also serves as a consultant liaison and training manager for Aviom.
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Vance Breshears is senior VP at Idibri (www.idibri.com), where he serves as a specialty consultant to architectural and construction firms for acoustics, technology, and theatre design. He specializes in high profile projects or projects with a high degree of complexity.
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Senior staff engineer Adam Stamper began experimenting with audio recording at an early age on an old 4-track cassette recorder. He later attended school at Omega Studios, graduated at the top of his class and eventually joined the staff. He has since worked with a wide range of clients, including guitarist Mike Stern, rock band Def Leppard, comedian Cedric the Entertainer, Disney Cruiselines, Folger Shakespeare Library, gospel artist Richard Smallwood, producer Brian Transeau (BT), and many others. Stamper possesses expert level certification in Pro Tools.
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Jeff Hawley is a 20-year music industry veteran who’s equally at ease behind the console, playing bass guitar, leading marketing teams or designing award-winning audio products. He currently heads up marketing for Allen & Heath in the U.S.
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Based in Oakland, Michael “Bink” Knowles has worked as freelance audio engineer and tech for more than 25 years.
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Jonny McClintock is commercial director at Antennaware, CEO of Audio Codecs, and an advisor to Virscient, Segotia and Sonical. He’s spent more than 30 years licensing and selling audio technology into professional and consumer products.
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Based in Los Angeles, Steve Harvey is a long-time pro audio journalist and photographer.
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Barry Hill, D.Ed. is a long-time audio educator and engineer who serves as professor and director, Audio & Music Production, at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania.
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Beckie Campbell is a long-time worship tech director and the owner of B4 Media Production (b4mediaproduction.com), a full-service live event production company based in Vero Beach, FL.
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Kieran McIntosh is an exceptional audio engineer. His work has garnered a diverse range of accomplishments, such as with Jeremy Zucker's More Noise !!!! World Tour, where he led the charge during the tour's Asia and Australia leg. He has also supported sold-out shows in London, Amsterdam and Cologne that were sponsored by Universal Music Group with over 10,000 tickets sold. In addition, he served as the lead broadcast engineer for Festivals Acadiens et Creole, overseeing the engineering for Grammy Award nominee Pine Leaf Boys, Grammy winner Chubby Carrier, Grammy nominee Geno Delafose, and Grammy winner Wayne Toups.
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Now with Bose Professional, industry veteran Adam Shulman previously worked with EAW and also served as senior consultant with SIA Acoustics, a leading acoustical and system design firm.
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Ed Hatfield is a professional monitor engineer touring with artists such as Ghost, Tyler Perry and Rumours Of Fleetwood Mac.
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Audio engineer and instructor Scotty O’Toole serves as senior staff engineer at Omega Recording Studios where continues to work on great sessions as well as share his experience with students.
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John Huntington is professor of Entertainment Technology overseeing Audio, Video and Networking at City Tech (New York City College of Technology, a CUNY school). He’s also the author of Show Networks and Control Systems, and blogs at controlgeek.net.
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Sam Berkow is the principal of SIA Acoustics and has completed a wide variety of acoustical design projects, including concert halls, recording studios, broadcast facilities, production facilities, house of worship facilities, large multi-purpose venues, amphitheaters and stadiums. His educational background includes a masters degree in Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology, where he specialized in acoustic measurement and design. He is also the original developer of Smaart acoustic measurement and system optimization software.
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Jon Sauer is the worship arts director at Lincoln Berean Church in Lincoln, NE. Building from a Business Administration degree and a guitar player’s love of music, his career has focused on house of worship audio. And as “Sauer Sound,” he also provides audio for local and regional groups, festivals, and national political events.
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Alyssa Freire is a multi-faceted live event technician in audio and lighting engineering. Her previous experience includes corporate AV/hospitality and the theatre markets
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Michael Lawrence is a Smaart instructor and application support specialist for Rational Acoustics. He's also an independent front of house engineer and system tech, and serves as the technical editor of various pro audio publications.
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Ray Rayburn is senior consultant with K2 Audio in Boulder, CO. He’s worked in professional audio for more than five decades and is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society (AES). Find out more about his illustrious career and also check out numerous reference articles at soundfirst.com.
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Aram Piligian is a pro audio veteran who works as both a live sound and recording engineer.
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John Kaczmar has worked in professional audio for 20 years and is currently enlisted in the United States Air Force as a Bandsmen, Audio Engineer. He is passionate about helping others reach their goals and building professional relationships worldwide. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Chris Foreman is a principal at SpeakAV, a content marketing and business consulting group. His career includes professional audio engineering, marketing and management positions and he is widely published. Find out more about Kim Yarbrough Photography at facebook.com/KTYarbroughPhotography.
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Dale Shirk is senior applications engineer for the Loudspeakers Solutions Group at Biamp. A graduate of the Institute of Audio Research in New York, he has more than 30 years of experience in audio contracting, including 25 years as owner of Shirk Audio & Acoustics, specializing in house of worship sound systems and acoustic consulting. He’s also contributed numerous technical articles to SynAudCon.
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Grammy award winning engineer Pete Novak started his career after completing the audio engineer program at Omega Studios. His career includes work with Stevie Nicks, Dr. Dre, Aftermath, Outkast, Gwen Stefani, Will Smith and plenty more. He is now a staff engineer at Omega Studios and an instructor at the Omega School. Find him on Twitter @pnovak23.
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Neil Thompson Shade, FASA, has decades of experience in clouting and teaching acoustics, noise control and sound system design. He is president and principal consultant of Acoustical Design Collaborative, Ltd., located in Baltimore, MD, and he has also been teaching acoustic, sound system design, computer modeling and related topics at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.
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Roey Izhaki has been involved with mixing since 1992. He is an academic lecturer in the field of audio engineering, gives mixing seminars across Europe at various schools and exhibitions, and is currently lecturing in the Audio Engineering department at SAE Institute, London.
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Fletcher McDermott is a front of house mixer/problem solver based in New York.
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Graham Hendry serves as vice president of strategic development at Renkus-Heinz, where he focuses on both product and market development. His professional background encompasses engineering, product management and customer service roles.
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Andy Peters is the long-time front of house engineer for New Jersey-based indie rock band The Feelies in addition to being an astronomy instrumentation developer.
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Michael Lawrence is an independent front of house engineer and system tech, and he’s also the technical editor of various pro audio publications. Hannah Goodine is a freelance audio engineer and a student in Husson University’s NESCOM live sound program, where she is taught by LSI contributor Eric Ferguson. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Beth O’Leary is a freelance live sound engineer and tech-based in Sheffield, England. While studying for her degree in zoology, she got distracted working for her university’s volunteer entertainment society and ended up in the music industry instead of wildlife conservation. Over the last 15 years, she’s done everything from pushing boxes in tiny clubs to touring arenas and spends a lot of her life in muddy fields working on most of the major festivals in the UK. She has a particular passion for flying PA, the black magic that is RF, travel, and good coffee.
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Dana Helmink, AuD, Senior Director of Audiology and Clinical Education at Widex, is a licensed audiologist with a Masters in Audiology from Northern Illinois University and a Doctor of Audiology from Salus University.
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Jim Lappin is product manager, wireless microphone systems, at Audio-Technica.
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Bob Lord serves as a board member and on the sound team for TBRAS. Find out more about the organization at blackroseacoustic.org. We thank Bob for this fine report, and encourage other readers involved in similar endeavors to reach out to us with their unique stories.
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Andrew King leads global brand support for PK Sound. Prior to joining the company, he spent more than a decade as editor in chief for NWC and its various magazine titles serving the international entertainment and live production industries. Jeremy Bridge, P. Eng., is the CEO and a founding partner of PK Sound. He has been awarded several international patents for advancements in mechanical design that optimize acoustic performance and efficiencies of robotic line source systems with variable multi-axis directivity.
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Don Boomer is applications engineer at RF Venue, and he’s also worked in R&D for Peavey, Sabine and Line 6. Fun fact: his rock band from high school days has a song in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
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Tom Danley (Danley Sound Labs) is a highly accomplished loudspeaker designer and is recognized worldwide as a pioneer for "outside the box" thinking in professional audio technology.
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Veronica Tecce is an image and sound designer with more than 15 years experience in audio and video editing. She works at Adelphi Studio based in Sheffield, UK, a media localization company that specializes in voice-over work.
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Abigail La Bianca has spent the last five years working a wide variety of roles while touring as a monitor engineer in Nashville, producing podcasts, and as a front of house at both large-scale concerts and corporate events. Currently, she works as an AVL Technician at Live! Casino and Hotel and is a production coordinator/audio engineer at a large church in the Baltimore area.
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Ward Lionel Kremer is a lifelong musician, producer, and recording engineer, who cut his first hit at age 17. In the 1960s he recorded and performed in the New York pop/R&B music scene with The Four Seasons, The Chiffons, Joey Dee, The Temptations, and Ike & Tina Turner. In the ‘70s he worked in the Miami music scene with TK records, KC & The Sunshine Band, George McRae, and The Ritchie Family. Ward also recorded and produced soca, reggae, and jazz festivals in Italy, USA, and Mexico, along with live sound and recording for Randy Bernsen and Ken Basman.
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Peter Franco is a long-time audio professional who has worked in engineering, technician and supervisory capacities for a wide range of artists and productions.
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Howard Page, senior director of engineering at Clair Global and has served as front of house engineer for top artists such as Sting, Phil Collins, Van Halen, Paul Simon, James Taylor and many more.
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Michael Curtis is a FOH mixer, systems engineer and audio educator based in Northwest Arkansas. He publishes videos weekly on YouTube and wishes he still played bass in his high school metal band.
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Ethan Winer has been an audio engineer and professional musician for more than 45 years. His Cello Rondo music video has received nearly 2 million views on YouTube and other web sites, and his book The Audio Expert published by Focal Press, now in its second edition, is available at amazon.com and ethanwiner.com. Ethan is also a principal of RealTraps, a manufacturer of acoustic treatment. Bill Eppler is a black belt electronics engineer and MIT graduate with decades of experience.
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The late Ken DeLoria, who served as senior technical editor for Live Sound International and worked in pro audio for more than 30 years, authored the original version of this article more than a decade ago, with our resident power guru Mike Sokol providing numerous updates and valuable additions.
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April Tucker is a Los Angeles-based re-recording mixer and sound editor who works in television, film and new media. She holds both a Master’s Degree and a Bachelor’s Degree in Music/Sound Recording. April enjoys doing educational outreach such as writing for industry blogs, and giving lectures and presentations. She can be contacted via her website, www.proaudiogirl.com.
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Marc Happes is a senior engineer and consultant with ACT Associates, LLC in Boston, MA. He earned both a Bachelor and Master’s Degree in electrical engineering from Binghamton University in New York. His concentration is in digital signal processing. Before relocating to Boston and before becoming a consultant, Marc worked as an engineer for an AV integrator where he was involved in design, implementation and commissioning of many successful projects. He is CTS-D and Dante Level II certified.
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Brad Price is the senior product manager at Audinate and has an extensive background in audio engineering, music performance, and software product development.
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Founded in 1990 and based in Hungary, Dexon Systems manufacturers a range of A/V hardware and software products developed in close cooperation with system integrators around the world. Find out more at dexonsystems.com.
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Joshua Rush serves as chief marketing officer for Audinate, makers of the Dante networking protocol.
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Wayne DuCharme is a pro audio veteran, active worship musician, producer/engineer, and technology product specialist at CCI Solutions, a leading source for AV and lighting equipment also providing system design and contracting as well as acoustic consulting.
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Bill Di Paolo has worked in live event production since he could walk. He’s the owner and technical director of Entertainment Services, a production company based in upstate New York that handles lighting, audio, and video for events of all sizes in the region.
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Peter Mapp, FAE, FASA, is principal of Peter Mapp Associates, a specialist acoustics and audio consultancy based in the UK. Peter has designed and commissioned over 600 sound systems and regularly lectures in Europe and USA on sound system design and speech intelligibility.
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Ultimate Recording Machine (URM) Academy is an online audio school created by Joey Sturgis, Joel Wanasek and Eyal Levi, producers who have worked with dozens of this generation's best rock & metal bands. URM also offers Nail The Mix, offering raw multi-tracks from real bands, live-streaming classes, and an exclusive mixing community.
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Joe Ciaudelli serves as director of spectrum affairs for Sennheiser and is a member of the U.S. State Department delegation to the international Radiocommunication Assembly.
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This article is excerpted from "JBL Audio Engineering For Sound Reinforcement" by John Eargle and Chris Foreman, used by permission of JBL Professional.
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Audio engineer Alex Cloud became interested in audio through the DIY punk and metal shows of his youth. His adventures in live sound reinforcement have ranged from noise bands in dirt-floored basements to tuxedo-clad opera singers. He has also done extensive work for corporate and political events, having worked with presidents and more. He has recorded genres as diverse as screamo, alt-country, gospel, pop, and symphonic orchestra.
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Stephen Fortner is the former editor in chief of Keyboard magazine. He currently provides expertise and content to music technology and professional audio brands via his consulting firm, Fortner Media
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Clemens Wannemacher has been head of the Bregenz Festival’s sound department since October 2020, and he’s previously served as a sound enginee at Volkstheater in Vienna, the Dresden State Operetta, ISRW (Institute for Sound Engineering, Room Acoustics, Thermal Insulation) Dr.-Ing. Klapdor GmbH and the Mörbisch Lake Festival.
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Based in Nashville, Wayne Pauley has mixed FOH for Lee Brice for several years, and has also worked with Celtic Woman, Trisha Yearwood, and many other country acts spanning back over two decades.
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David Kennedy is the principal consultant of David Kennedy Associates since 1991. David began his career in the professional sound industry in 1980 as the owner and lead designer of Sound Advise. He has worked as an A/V systems designer for His Sound of Fresno, Paoletti Associates of San Francisco, and as senior acoustics and A/V systems consultant for Michael Garrison Associates of Fresno, for several years.
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Ken Theriot is the owner and operator of Home Brew Audio (homebrewaudio.com), an internet business whose goal is to help anyone and everyone to record professional sounding audio from home. He also operates Raven Boy Music and has produced several video tutorials on home recording for voice-over actors, podcasting and musicians.
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With more than 25 years of professional audio experience recording, mixing, and mastering with international and regional artists, Tom Volpicelli (chief engineer/owner) founded The Mastering House in Elverson, PA in 2001, and has an extensive list of mastering and mixing credits to his name.
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Michael Lawrence is an independent front of house engineer and system tech. He is also the technical editor of various pro audio publications. Send him your thoughts at [email protected]. Samantha Potter is an IT media supervisor and system design consultant in the house of worship sector. She is also production manager for Funk Syndicate in Kansas City. Get in touch at [email protected]
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A mild-mannered college professor by day, Bruce Batterson has worked in small-time sound reinforcement since he was a teenager.
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Becca Stoll is a theatrical audio engineer who specializes in mixing musicals and is especially passionate about mixing new works. Recent credits include Between The Lines (2nd Stage Off-Broadway), A Walk On The Moon (George St Playhouse, NJ), and A Strange Loop (Woolly Mammoth, DC). She is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and a former Northwestern “theatre cherub,” and is a proud member of (and mentor within) TSDCA, USITT, Sound Thinking NYC, and SoundGirls.
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Over the course of a long, illustrious career, Dave Natale has served as mix engineer for numerous top touring artists, and currently works with The Rolling Stones and Jeff Beck.
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Dr. Julie Glick was first introduced to custom in-ear monitors and musician earplugs 20 years ago when she started her career in private practice in Beverly Hills. Since then she has spent invaluable time with monitor/sound engineers and has been backstage and in rehearsal studios with musicians of all genres, and has also worked as an audiologist for two years with Sensaphonics Hearing Conservation in Chicago. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and Hearing Science from The Ohio State University, a Master of Science degree in Communicative Disorders from California State University, Northridge, and is a Doctor of Audiology from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, School of Audiology. She’s also a licensed Audiologist and Hearing Instrument Dispenser in the states of California and New York, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology.
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Mike Bauer has more than 15 years of experience in the audio industry, first as a staff engineer at Clinton Recording Studios and then at Power Station (both in NYC), where he worked on a variety of projects and albums with Bruce Springsteen, Chromeo, Lady Gaga, Boardwalk Empire and many others. He is currently based out of Vancouver, British Columbia where he works in product development and marketing for Radial Engineering.
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Carolina Anton specializes in live sound mixing, system design, and sound reinforcement optimization. For more than 15 years, she has established a trajectory within her career, collaborating with distinguished artists and productions. She’s also the co-founder of the company 3BH, which develops projects for technology integration for post-production and music studios. Further, she’s a part of GoroGoro Immersive Labs – a mixing and creative studio specializing in immersive formats such as Dolby Atmos. In 2016, she began representing the Soundgirls.org organization in Mexico.
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Nate Clark is a freelance audio engineer from Rochester, NY. He works as an A1 and A2, and currently tours as FOH for independent band King Buffalo.
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Derek Badala is director of sales, Americas at Synthax U.S. (RME's U.S. distributor).
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Long-time audio and production professionals Courtney & Paul Klimson are the founders of The Roadie Clinic, dedicated to empowering and healing roadies and their families by providing resources and services tailored to the struggles of the touring lifestyle.
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Bas Janssen is an accomplished audio engineer who has has worked as the front of house engineer for the 27th annual Gospel Music Choice Awards, an event with more than 500,000 voters per year and involves 425 artists from the U.S. and 10 countries around the world. Additionally, he served as the mix engineer for Dana Williams’ song “Sensitive” featured on the Prime Video program Harlem. He also served as the monitor engineer for Chloe x Halle at the MTV Movie & TV Awards, which has an average viewership of 3.37 million across 10 channels. Moreover, he worked as the recording engineer for indie pop trio AJR’s lead single “3 O’clock Things” from their album OK Orchestra, which garnered 37 million streams. The song won Top Rock Song at the Billboard Music Awards in 2021.
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Alex Fernie is the founder and managing director of Alex Fernie Audio Ltd., now Atlantic Audio (atlanticaudio.ie), a leading sound reinforcement company in Ireland.
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Kerrie Mondy is a front of house engineer at several St. Louis venues, including the New Line Theater and Ferring Jazz Bistro. She started her career in radio as well as working as a stagehand and running sound at her local church, and she's also a member of SoundGirls.
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Tyler Walters is a system technician and live engineer residing in Asheville, NC, currently working for Spectrum Sound (Nashville) and SE Systems (Greensboro, NC).
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Maxime Brunet is a freelance front of house and monitor engineer based in Montréal, Canada. An earlier version of this profile was published on soundgirls.org in May 2020, and we thank them for allowing us to present this updated version.
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Candice Weaver is a current student of The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she is studying towards a postgraduate diploma in Sound Design for Theatre. While there she’s also served as production sound engineer and sound designer for productions in all three of RADA’s theatres. Her exterior work includes the National Theatre, Secret Cinema, and the Royal Opera House. Read more from Candice at SoundGirls.org.
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Amanda Eberle Boyer is Senior Director of Membership Service at AVIXA, the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association. AVIXA represents the $247 billion global commercial AV and live events industries. For more information, visit www.avixa.org.
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Kevin McPherson ([email protected]) is the president of the pro audio division of EH Media and Keith Clark ([email protected]) is the editor of LSI, PSW and a host of related channels.
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Gideon Waxman is a London-based drummer with over 13 years experience. Since completing a Music Degree at the University of Westminster, he's been touring with metal act Familiar Spirit. You can find more from him at Drum Helper (https://drumhelper.com), a free online resource dedicated to helping drummers achieve more from their playing.
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Joe Begin, PE (Acoustical Engineering) serves as director of applications and technical support at Audio Precision. He's a graduate of McGill University (B.Sc.) and the University of Canterbury (M.Sc.), has more than 35 years of experience in test and measurement. David Mathew is technical publications manager and a senior technical writer at Audio Precision. He's served as both a mixing engineer and as a technical engineer in the recording and film-making industries, and was awarded an Emmy for his work in 1988.
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Ed Hatfield is a professional monitor engineer touring with artists such as Ghost, Tyler Perry and Rumours Of Fleetwood Mac.
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Mark Dodd is the head of group research at GP Acoustics, including Celestion and KEF. While with Tannoy, he developed the “Tulip Waveguide” phase plug for the company’s coaxial drivers on which he presented his first paper at the 1992 AES convention in Vienna. In 1994, joined GP Acoustics, where he has since pioneered the use of Finite Element Analysis in transducer design, presenting several papers on transducer design, and more recently. on enclosure design at the AES, IOA and ISEAT conferences.
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Luke Walton is the associate director of marketing for NAMM. He joined the organization in 2018 after a successful career as a touring guitarist and recording studio owner in Los Angeles, and continues to make, produce, and mix music for his band FEiN as well as artists on Sub Pop and Sony Music.
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Tim Bright, Jr. serves as an A1 for the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation (DRWFC), a non-profit organization that manages several venues in Philadelphia located along the Delaware River, including the Great Plaza At Penn’s Landing, Cherry Street Pier, Spruce Street Harbor Park and others. He’s also a member of IATSE Local 8 and HD Philly crew.
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Dave Sinko is a live and recording engineer who’s working with a wide range of artists, including the Grammy-winning folk band Punch Brothers.
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At the time of original publication, Jim Cunningham had been technical director of United Western Studios in Hollywood, California, for the previous three years. For six years before that he had been with the Sound Market in Chicago. While in Chicago he did extensive research into the acoustic properties of echo. This research eventually lead him to design the Ecoplate reverberation device which had been recently introduced to the recording community.
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Stephen Bailey is lead audio engineer for Passion City Church in Atlanta as well as for the Passion Conferences.
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Brenda & Pat Brown lead SynAudCon, a leader in online audio training.
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