AUDIO MEDIA MAGAZINE

(1990 - 2014)

From 1996 until 1999 I was the Editor (and subsequently Executive Editor of all editions) of Audio Media magazine. It was at that time the worlds leading professional audio technology magazine.

Launched in 1990, Audio Media was published as a rival to the professional audio industry magazine reader, specifically Studio Sound magazine (1971-2001) and Home & Studio Recording magazine (1983-1994).

Audio Media was the sister magazine to Sound On Sound which had been founded five years earlier by publishers Ian and David Gilby and Godfrey Davies.

Following the spilt of SOS Publications in 1996, Godfrey Davies became publisher of Audio Media magazine at AM Publishing Ltd, based in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire.

I became Editor of Audio Media in 1996, and by 1997 had successfully launched the US Edition of the magazine, based in Nashville TN, and later (1999) the German, French, Spanish and Chinese language versions of the publication.

By the time I left in 1999, Audio Media had grown to overshadow all other rival professional audio technology publications in the UK, Europe and the United States, with average monthly pagination up from 96 pages to 304 pages, and a 300% increase in ABC.

The magazine was later sold (2001) to IMAS Publishing and subsequently to NewBay Media (2007); they in turn sold it to Future (2011) who initially continued the publication online only, but closed it completely in 2014.

SOUND ON SOUND MAGAZINE

(1985 - to date)

Launched in 1985, Sound On Sound magazine is still going in print form after more than forty years.

SOS Publications has seen virtually all of its rival hi-tech music recording magazine rivals fall by the wayside - with Future Music (1992-2024) folding recently, E&MM (1981-1986) evolving into Music Technology (1986-1994) which then evolved into The Mix (1994-2001) but folded in February 2001.

I wrote my first article for Sound On Sound in 1996, just before I joined Audio Media magazine as Editor.

MIX MAGAZINE

(1977 - 2021)

MIX MAGAZINE ONLINE

(2021 - to date)

Mix magazine, launched in America in 1977, is a periodical, billing itself as "the world's leading magazine for the professional recording and sound production technology industry".

The magazine is headquartered in New York City and distributed in 94 countries.

NewBay Media bought it from Penton Media in 2011. Future acquired NewBay Media in 2018.

In 2021, the music production magazine Pro Sound News merged with Mix online.

I first wrote articles for Mix magazine in 2003.