Mick Hughes

“‘Big” Mick Hughes is the live audio engineer for Metallica, a position he has held since 1984. He is also currently sitting in the FOH seat for Led Zepplin!

He was born in 1960 and grew up in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. While an apprentice at British Steel, he studied electronics at a local technical college and also gained experience on the thriving Midlands music scene. In the early 1980s, he engineered for bands including UB40, Dennis Brown, Yellow Man, and Jungle Man before becoming the touring sound engineer for The Armoury Show, who featured ex-The Skids singer Richard Jobson (television presenter) and ex Siouxsie & The Banshees guitarist John McGeogh.

Don Keele

D. B. (Don) Keele, Jr.’s Summary

Bio as of Feb. 2008

Don Keele has worked for several companies in the area of loudspeaker R&D and measurement technology including Electro-Voice, Klipsch, JBL, Crown, and Harman. He holds three patents on “constant-directivity” loudspeaker horns, has four patents pending, and is a fellow of AES and a member of ASA. He wrote for Audio Magazine as a Senior Editor performing loudspeaker reviews. More recently, he worked for Harman/Becker Automotive Systems in the advanced technology development group and was a member of the Harman corporate acoustics engineering group working under Floyd Toole. Currently he is back at Harman/Becker working in the simulation and virtual acoustics group.

George Massenburg

George Y. Massenburg (b. Baltimore, Maryland, United States) is an award-winning recording engineer and inventor. Working principally in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Macon, Georgia, Massenburg is widely known for his 1972 paper on the parametric equalizer.

Background

At 15, Massenburg worked part-time both in the recording studio and in an electronics laboratory. He attended Johns Hopkins University, majoring in electrical engineering. As a sophomore, he left the University and never returned.