Summary
I am an audio dubbing editor & mixer and a Digidesign Pro Tools specialist with a growing experience in 5.1 surround. I work in radio, TV sound, and ‘new media’ and I am committed to high quality in all areas at an affordable price.
My Specialities
Creating and producing radio programmes and podcasts. 
Audio post production for video and TV. 
Pro Audio Consultant. 
Digidesign Pro Tools. 
Media NVQ assessor

Current Experience
Pro Tools specialist with One Stop Digital (OSD) Ltd
1992 – Present (18 years)
Radio Documentaries include:
Radio 1
‘The Big C’, ‘Cap Trap’, Push It’ – The Salt & Pepa story, ‘Sciene of attraction’, ‘Eco Rock’, ‘Racism’, ‘Sporting the Hijab’, From Skateboards to Stadiums’, ‘Food4Thought’, ‘Universities’, ‘Screaming without Words’, ‘You cannot be Serious’, Hip Hop in the Holy Land’;
Radio 2
‘Behind Enemy Lines’ for Remembrance weekend, ‘Growing Up With God’ documentary with John McCarthy, Series of ‘Brass Britain’, ‘Faith in the World’ x3, Soulsville – The Stax Record story, ‘Laughter & Tears’ – The Les Dawson Story, ‘Another Fine Mess’ – The Laurel & Hardy Story; ‘Bollywood’, ‘The Womens War’, ‘Mary Mary’, ‘Who is my Neighbour’;
Radio 3
‘Whales – In your Ears’,
Radio 4
Two Series of ‘What’s the point of’, ‘Archive Hour – ‘Giving way to a new era’ (Sony Nominated), ‘Desperate Dreams’ (Sony Nominated), Series of ‘A sense of Liverpool’, Series of ‘Witness – Behind Luke’s story’, ‘Portraits of Jerusalem’, ‘A Yorkshire Christmas’,'A Yorkshire Christmas’, ‘Christmas in the Cathedral’, 6 series of ‘The Choice’, ‘I got up out of my seat’ – Billy Graham and Mission England legacy, ‘Iconoclasts’, ‘Cities without Maps’, ‘Nerves of Steel’, Restoring 4 archive ‘Choral Evensongs’ for re-transmission, 4 x ‘Apprenticeships to the past’, ’3 x My Name is’, 3 episodes of ‘Seven Days’, ‘Modern Miracles’, ‘Managing Football’, ‘Sing your own Psalms’, ‘Changos’, 3 series of ‘In the Footsteps of….’, ‘Physician Heal Thyself’, ‘After Death What’, 2 series of ‘Belief, ‘E Generation at 40′, ‘Inside the Harem’, ‘Portraits of Jerusalem’, ‘From this Moment on’ in ProLogic Surround.
BBC Asian Network
‘Racism’, ‘The best of Asian Week’ compilation
BBC World Service
‘Yah Wobble’s Mystical Music Tour’, ‘Heart & Soul’, ‘The Cost of Coffee’, ‘The Cost of Cotton’, Global Account’.

Radio Dramas include: ‘Craven’ – 5 x 15 min Womans Hour drama series, Divided we Fall 20 x 9 min community radio drama series for Preston FM ‘Shameless’ for Channel 4 Radio; ‘Run for Home’, ‘A Minus’, ‘Nightmares’, ‘Aperture’, ‘7 Floors’, ‘Little Lives’, ‘Take a Pinch of’, ‘Unspoken’, ‘1834’, ‘Black 5 foot Nothing’, ‘Lorna Doone’ all for BBC Radio 4

New Media & Podcasting: Producing audio for ‘The Working Class Movement Library’ CDRom on working children in the Vicorian Age; Re-purposing audio for SkillSoft NHS training schemes; Re-purposing audio for Internet Based English langauge course for foreign students; Podcast location recording and post production for Mind Your Business for Junction YK; ‘On my Streets’ for Channel 4 Radio.

TV Work: Dubbing editor and mixer for series of 6 x 1 hour documentaries ‘ The making of a monster’ for Sky TV; Dubbing editor & mixer for Open University productions from 186 Media; Dubbing Editor & Mixer for ‘The Write Kit’ – creative writing DVD for key stge 3, Dolby 5.1 TV Dubbing Editor & Mixer for DVD series; ‘Dialog replacement for Amensty film; Protools location recording in Africa; Protools location recording – ‘Kate Rusby In Concert’ for BBC 3 and DVD for the artist; Live Dolby Surround mixing for sport (3 seasons of football) & music programmes including ‘U2’, and ‘The Saw Doctors’.

Music Recordings: Worked across a wide variety of styles including all 15 of Wellspring’s albums with a wide range of styles from Jazz to Classical through Comtemporary; 3rd Day – A Rock Musical with massed choir & band; Album for Soprano soloist Margaret Ferguson; 2 x Children’s choir albums; Music for the largest carol concert in the world with brass band and Commonwealth Games Choir; Solo Flautist album.

Pro Tools columnist and reviewer for Sound On Sound magazine
January 2005 – Present (5 years 2 months)
For Sound on Sound I write a workshop every month on Pro Tools outlining a feature or function in Pro Tools. Recently I have covered Region List management, Splitting Sessions, Handling Missing Files and a series of tips and tricks for beginners and experienced users a like. For a full list and links to the articles I have written go to the Articles page.

Past Experience
Director and broadcast sound supervisor for Omnibuss Mobile Ltd
May 1991 – July 1997 (6 years 3 months)
The Omnibuss Mobile was an ex BBC B type sound OB wehicle that we re-fitted out with new equipment and handled a wide range of music recording and broadcast OB work including The Saw Doctors for ITV, The Hogmany programme for Border TV x 3 Ken Dod’s Christmas video as well as a wide range of OB work for Granada TV. We became the first OB truck to be Dolby Surround capable and I mixed the first UK broadcast of a Dolby Surround transmission for Granada TV from Tranmere Rovers ground.

Outside Broadcast Engineer for Piccadilly Radio & Key 103
August 1985 – May 1990 (4 years 10 months)
I then became the outside broadcast department and built two HGV outside broadcast vehicles. The first a mobile stage vehicle – The Star Truck and the second a music recording OB vehicle – The Multi Truck. I was responsible for all the stations OBs including FA cup finals, taking the breakfast show out and about to places like Dublin, a bus on the bus route from Manchester to Bolton and back and Strangeways prison.
Inside I was instrumental in the creation technically of Key 103 in the Piccadilly Plaza buildings. I was also one of the first people to engineer live acoustic sessions when artist came to visit the station and some of those sessions ended up on albums including Vigilante man with The Alarm on 20th September 1989

Broadcast Engineer for Piccadilly Radio
September 1981 – July 1985 (3 years 11 months)
I worked as maintenance engineer on a 4 week shift cycle improving the station’s infrastructure and keeping it on the air

Audio Test and Development Engineer for Marconi Communications Systems Ltd
September 1979 – August 1981 (2 years)
Once I had completed my apprenticeship I became Marconi’s sole audio test engineer in the broadcast section. On the development side as there hadn’t been a specialist audio development engineer in the company for some time I started to modify and re-design products to improve them. However with the rise of Japanese broadcast products Marconi’s became less and less competitive and I was made redundant in 1981.

Technican Apprentice at Marconi Communications Systems Ltd
September 1976 – August 1979 (3 years)
I served my apprenticeship as a block release student at The Chelmer Institute and in the first year also was trained in the Marconi Training school to use a mill, lathe, solder to military spec, and technical drawing. In the second and third years I was supposed to be on placement in different parts of the company. However after my first placement in “TV Test” the audio test engineer retired and so I was asked to replace him whilst continuing my training.