MIKE WHO?

Mike Brown began his career in 1974 at Pye Studios, Marble Arch, becoming a balance engineer in 1977 and a disc cutting engineer in 1978. His most impressive statistic is that by the end of that year he found at one point that he had cut 4 of the top 6 singles, one week! By 1979 he was already working with digital audio, cutting LPs from early digital recordings.

After working for a while in audio training and as a freelance engineer he joined CTS Studios in 1987 and continues to combine a specialisation in audio CD pre-mastering with balance engineering.

Following the closure of CTS Studios at Wembley in 2001, and faced by the ever reducing scale of the music industry presence in London Mike left CTS-Lansdowne in 2003 and now runs his own mastering facility in Cornwall.

Mike has maintained his enthusiasm for mastering over more than 30 years, saying "every day is different - I do everything: contemporary dance, MOR, big bands, classical, folk, children's albums, show soundtracks, bhangra, Asian classical and devotional music, spoken word - you name it."

Mike says "When I first started, disc cutting was all mechanics and plumbing! These days most of the hard work is done with software and delivered by FTP. Happily Cornwall is at the forefront of superfast fibre-optic broadband, which is great!"