Pro Tools for Music Production: Recording, Editing and Mixing

About Mike Collins

Mike Collins (Author)Mike Collins is a studio musician recording engineer and producer with more than 30 years experience of making records. He has many credits on UK chart singles and albums for radio and TV broadcasts advertising jingles and movie scores.Mike was awarded a BSc Degree in Electroacoustics-with-Music from Salford University in 1979 became a Member of the Audio Engineering Society in 1980 and was awarded an MSc Degree in Music Information Technology with Distinction in 1989.After graduating he spent 14 months working on transducer designs for Standard Telephones and Cables (STC) followed by a couple of 6-month stints as a Planning & Installation Engineer for Neve Electronics and as a Film Sound Consultant for Dolby Labs before joining Yamaha's London R & D Studio in 1986 as Senior Recording Engineer and Music Technology Specialist.Working freelance since 1988 Mike has regularly reviewed music and audio software and hardware and written about a variety of audio and music production topics with more than 2000 articles and reviews published in Pro Sound News Europe Future Music Computer Music Macworld MacUser Personal Computer World Sound On Sound AudioMedia Studio Sound Electronic Musician EQ MIX and similar publications.In parallel with this Mike established a career throughout the 1990's as a studio musician MIDI programmer recording engineer and producer working on Top 40 albums and singles in the leading London recording studios including Abbey Road Mayfair Townhouse Eden Strongroom and Sony Whitfield Street Studios CTS and Lansdowne Studios. In 1997 Mike set up a project studio equipped with a high-end Pro Tools system and has since been involved in everything from dance remixes to TV ads background and featured music for TV and video album editing and compilation and since 1999 producing jazz blues and soul recordings. Notable projects include working on music for a Deutsche Bank promotional video co-production credits on Ayetoro an experimental jazz/Afrobeat album and in 2010 working as a freelance audio transfer engineer at Iron Mountain's studio facility in Slough helping to digitize Universal Music's vast library of master tape recordings. Most recently Mike has set up a 'boutique' record label to release recordings he has produced - see http://rudenoterecords.com/author/rudenoterecords/